http://www.IRmep.org/ IRmep Audio Podcasting is a periodic feed of Middle East Policy formulation related content! Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:37:00 GMT IRmepAudio v2.0 http://www.irmep.org/images/policycast.jpg http://www.IRmep.org/ 50 45 Radio host Scott Horton interviews IRmep's Grant F. Smith about Israel lobby conspiracy theories and conspiracies from the Reagan administration to the present. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:03:25 -0400 KZYX radio host Jeff Blankfort and IRmep's Grant F. Smith on Obama visit to Israel, spies and AIPAC's foreign agency. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:03:25 -0400 Grant F Smith of Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy joins Ryan Dawson of Boiling Frogs to explain new video of a former NASA employee Stewart Nozette selling secrets to an undercover FBI agent posing as a Mossad operative, and the mechanics of Israel lobby immunity. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:03:25 -0400 Grant F. Smith, research director of IRmep, briefs several hundred Houston area non-profit and business leaders about why Americans are turning away from Israel and challenging Israel's U.S. lobby. Review of major espionage, propaganda and wealth transfer initiatives. Analysis of new polling data on American public opinion and how the growing chasm between opinion and U.S. policy may be driving a higher score on Transparency International's "perceptions of corruption" index. Recorded on February 23, 2013. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 1 Mar 2013 00:03:25 -0400 Guest speaker and author Grant F. Smith presents his thoughts on the "Diversion of U.S. Weapons-Grade Uranium into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program," a new drive to declassify government documents long overdue for release, and the potential environmental and legal consequences. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 2 Feb 2013 00:03:25 -0400 Grant F. Smith discusses key findings from a January / February Washington Report on Middle East Affairs special report on the history and clandestine activities of the ZOA. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:03:25 -0400 NPR reporter roundtable ducks question of Israel lobby attach on Chuck Hagel, with one exception. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Kathleen Wells and Grant Smith discuss conventional and nuclear parastatal weapons smuggling, the toxic policy of "strategic ambiguity," and how corruption prevents warranted criminal prosecutions. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Scott Horton and Grant Smith discuss the curious activities and origins of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Crosstalk's Peter Lavelle hosts Ruthie Blum, Grant F. Smith and Stephen Zunes to debate the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. politics on RT. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:03:25 -0400 On September 21, 2012 radio host Kevin Barrett interviewed Grant F. Smith for current IRmep research and analysis about the upcoming elections. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Grant F. Smith, Research Director for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy at IRmep.org, joins us to discuss the secret Israeli espionage program that smuggled nuclear materials out of the United States to help start the Israeli nuclear program in the 1960s. We go over the declassified documents tying Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the smuggling ring, and explore Smith’s book, Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:03:25 -0400 Takes on the World host Jeffrey Blankfort discusses Syria and Grant Smith's unsuccessful attempt to discuss Israeli nuclear smuggling on NPR. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith about how the Milco/Heli/Ministry of Defense nuclear smuggling ring resembles predecessor and successor front company networks targeting the U.S.; the legal process of obtaining the documents which implicated Benjamin Netanyahu in nuclear technology smuggling; and why President Obama will likely have Jonathan Pollard released by February, 2013. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Gary Null interviews Grant Smith about FBI documents indicating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked inside a nuclear technology smuggling ring that targeted the U.S. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Host Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio discusses Grant Smith's article “US Charity Secretly Funds Israeli Nukes;” how the Weizmann Institute, posing as a non-profit charity, conducts espionage and fundraising for Israel’s nuclear weapons program; why the US government continues pretending that Israel’s nukes don’t exist; the IRS’s tentative ruling on tax-deductible donations to the Weizmann Institute; how the Justice Department’s secretive “shutdown” orders on productive FBI investigations violates US obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and why the mainstream media won’t discuss the Israeli arsenal. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 27 May 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Radio host Shelton Walden of WBAI's "Walden's Pond" interviews Grant F. Smith about the Israeli nuclear weapons program, why US presidents cannot openly talk about it and the diversion of weapons-grade uranium from a plant at Apollo, PA.. How would the conversation about war with Iran change if American's knew Israel had a vast arsenal of deployed nuclear weapons? Did Israel build nuclear weapons in the early 1960's with US material? Why couldn't the United States properly investigate, indict and prosecute those responsible for stealing its most vital military asset? What can be done to inform more Americans about the coercive nature of US-Israel relations? http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, about the “Occupy AIPAC” counter-summit in Washington, D.C. from March 2-6; his article “The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC;” the fine line between a domestic lobby and a foreign-controlled intelligence operation; and how constant talk of “Israel in danger” gets AIPAC’s hardcore American donors to open their wallets. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith discusses his article “AIPAC Obtained Missile Secrets;” newly-declassified State Department documents about maverick estate-planning author Norman F. Dacey’s attempt to hold AIPAC accountable for leveraging classified information to scuttle an arms deal with Jordan in the 1970s; how these documents could help Steven J. Rosen’s defamation lawsuit against AIPAC; and why many of AIPAC’s functions should be conducted by a foreign embassy, rather than a domestic lobby. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:03:25 -0400 Jeffrey Blankfort, host of the KZYX radio program "Takes on the World," interviews Grant F. Smith about the forthcoming book Divert! NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of US Weapons Grade Uranium into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:13:25 -0400 Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., and Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton discusses Smith's article “Americans Pay Dearly to Maintain Israel’s Nuclear Secrets;” the Army Corps of Engineers’ $170 million cleanup project at NUMEC, a Pennsylvania nuclear facility that diverted uranium to Israel in the 1960s; why the CIA still won’t release documents on NUMEC (and the agency knows plenty about it), even to aid the cleanup effort; the obsolete “strategic ambiguity” policy whereby government officials and the US media feign ignorance or willfully ignore anything about Israel’s nuclear program; and how NUMEC fits the profile of a long list of Israeli front companies that smuggled US military assets and nuclear materials. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:13:25 -0400 Host Scott Horton and IRmep director Grant F. Smith discuss how over the last two years AIPAC has begun hiding it's distribution curve of large donors, replacing declining public support with cash from a captive non-profit and removing lobbying expenditures from its publicly available IRS filings. Does this signal an AIPAC "reconstitution" within the Israel lobby Rubik's cube? They also discuss Medea Benjamin, Tighe Barry and Smith's interesting visit with the Office of Congressional Ethics to discuss AIPAC-organized congressional junkets to Israel, and the OCE's narrow interpretation of 2007 prohibitions on lobbyist paid travel. They also review the Justice Department's record with whistle blowers and Pakistani Kashmir lobbyists from the Sep/Oct Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Special Report. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:13:25 -0400 Grant F. Smith reviews AIPAC's hidden history, violations of IRS regulations, classified information laws and the Foreign Agents Registration Act, as well as three programs to raise awareness, accountability and overdue regulation. Presentation panel from the Move Over AIPAC conference on May 21, 2011. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:13:25 -0400 Journalist Jeffrey Blankfort analyzes how the "Israel lobby" more resembles a "many storied hotel" where the doors to the corridors of power and influence sought by Americans are locked. Review of grassroots tactics to confront members of Congress and educate the public.ed. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:13:25 -0400 Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith about his article “Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors?” about the change in AIPAC’s donation list in the last few years, why Steven Rosen’s defamation lawsuit against AIPAC is revealing new aspects of the organization, and how the documents brought to light could justify indicting the whole lobby for espionage; and the evidence that Rosen used classified information to derail Jesse Jackson’s political career. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:00:00 -0500 Janet McMahon, Managing Editor - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't they be consolidated to have reduced total contribution limits like other PACs? How has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee secretly coordinated stealth PACs, and what has been done about it? Presentation panel from the Move Over AIPAC conference on May 21, 2011 http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:00:00 -0500 On July 3, 2011 Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton podcast an interview with IRmep director Grant F. Smith about his essay, "AIPAC Pushes Hard for War with Iran...But Doesn't Want the Blame." They discuss Keith Weissman's breaking of his media silence to (badly) defend AIPAC, claiming there is no official program for regime change in Iran, how the US forgoes a necessary waiver when sending aid to Israel -- required for all foreign countries with clandestine nuclear programs, how AIPAC uses leverage on domestic US issues (like National Guard base upgrades) to get their way on foreign policy issues, and the difference between Rosen/Weissman/Franklin espionage and Bradley Manning/WikiLeaks whistleblowing. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:00:00 -0500 Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss why Reagan would not accept an invitation to speak at AIPAC, and why listeners should attend the Move Over AIPAC conference and protest. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 16 May 2011 11:00:00 -0500 Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins, and Grant F. Smith discuss a range of illegal Israel lobbying and espionage activities, the dangerous recommendations in the book Start-Up Nation by Senor and Singer, and why the 1985 US-Israel bilateral trade agreement is really a $10 billion/year private-industry funded foreign aid program. Edmonds and Smith also discuss the importance of attending Move Over AIPAC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:00:00 -0500 On April 6, Grant F. Smith presented a comprehensive review of the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement to the Finance and Economics Council at the University of Rochester. Using a slide show of declassified documents and charts, Smith revealed how secret agreements and a joint Israeli embassy/AIPAC covert operation undermined US industries and the trade negotiating process. New quantitative analysis and disclosures reveal the US-Israel trade agreement is actually a $10 billion/year foreign aid program. Smith also discusses how major omissions in Dan Senor and Saul Singer's 2009 Council on Foreign Relations book Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle undermine their two major findings: that perpetual conflict gives Israel a comparative advantage and that the US should reinstate conscription in order to match Israel's entrepreneurial output. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss the book Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle assumptions that conscription based national service and constant warfare are actually competitive advantages. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses Jane Harman’s resignation from Congress, amid speculation that more information on her AIPAC dealings will soon emerge; how Harman and Alberto Gonzalez avoided legal and professional sanction but suffered damaged reputations nonetheless; the down-the-memory-hole scandals of Niger uranium forgeries and the Office of Special Plans; why the juicy tidbits revealed in Steve Rosen’s dismissed lawsuit should be enough for a multi-count indictment of AIPAC; and the uber-class of people so far beyond the rule of law, they can never be held to account. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss how the NUMEC diversion of 90% enriched (weapons grade) uranium to Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons programs relates to the current drive to free spy Jonathan Pollard. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio discussion about how Steven Rosen’s lawsuit disclosures are shining a light on the highly-secretive inner workings of AIPAC; the pro-Israel media’s focus on the “injury of the United States” part of the Espionage Act while ignoring the “advantage of a foreign nation” part; why Attorney General Eric Holder would rather prosecute WikiLeaks than AIPAC; Rosen’s violation of court proceeding rules that may get his case dismissed; and the 1700 or so generous donors to AIPAC – many of whom also support Israel’s Likud Party – who essentially dictate US foreign policy in the Middle East. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:09:00 -0500 Discussion about how pardoning crimes committed to advance Israeli interests undermines rule of law in the United States. WAMU FM, Washington, DC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss the rationale behind IRmep's filing with the IRS seeking the retroactive revocation of AIPAC's tax exemption. Broadcast live 11/26/2010 at 6:00 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 93.7 FM San Diego, and 98.5 FM Ridge Crest/China Lake. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio discussion of AIPAC's new 260 page court filing in Rosen v AIPAC and how details of interactions with the Israeli embassy and attempts to provoke US-Iran military conflict. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio discussion of newly declassified documents from the US Senate’s 1963 investigation of foreign agents following the Israeli false flag “Lavon Affair,” how enforcement of FARA prompted the American Zionist Council to reorganize as a non-registered lobby (now called AIPAC), the hundreds of quashed FBI and DOJ investigations into the Israel lobby’s routine lawbreaking, how the biggest scandals involving large numbers of government officials become politically impossible to prosecute, how Israel’s real existential threat is the lack of an existential threat and why Israel chooses militaristic isolation instead of participating in open market prosperity in the Mideast. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort discusses the Israel lobby with Kathleen Wells. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:09:00 -0500 How much damage did spy Jonathan Pollard cause to the United States? http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss the Israeli proposal to free spy Jonathan Pollard in exchange for a temporary illegal settlement freeze to save the sputtering "peace process." http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Host Jeffrey Blankfort interviews Grant F. Smith on his public radio program "Takes on the World" about newly unsealed Senate Foreign Relations Committee files investigating the Israel lobby.  The documents reveal quarterly $5,000 payments from the Jewish Agency to AIPAC for the lobbying newsletter "Near East Report" and stealth public relations programs to undermine American free speech.  The implications of a fifty year effort to undermine free speech in America are discussed in the radio interview. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the boon of documents released in a Senate investigation of Israel’s covert lobbying and PR campaigns, threats to the continued freedom to practice (out of favor) religions in America, how neocons use their unchallenged talking points in mainstream media to push for war with Iran, The Atlantic magazine’s history of shilling for Israel and how AIPAC wields power by withholding campaign contributions to wayward congressmen. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith discusses Israel's nuclear weapons at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses Israel's nuclear weapons at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of IRmep about the upcoming International Spy Museum event ""Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: Espionage, Opacity and Future" and newly released documents about Senator Arlen Specter pressuring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to exonerate NUMEC over enriched uranium diversions. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton interviews Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., about the newly declassified 1978 GAO report released by IRmep on 5/10/2010. They cover the diversion of US nuclear material to Israel, marginal investigations and possible cover-ups by the FBI and CIA, prosecutorial immunity for high-profile Americans who commit crimes for Israel's benefit, and billionaire Haim Saban's considerable influence on the Democratic Party. They review new information about why LBJ's political debt to fundraiser Abraham Feinberg (designated by David Ben Gurion as the US funding coordinator for Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1958) probably explained his disdain for the NUMEC investigation and applying nuclear nonproliferation to Israel. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 11 May 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar radio host Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss Israel’s underwhelming representation at the Nuclear Security summit and the 1960s diversion of highly enriched uranium from Pennsylvania to Israel’s nuclear weapons program. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith sits down with PressTV's Susan Modaress to discuss how arms smuggling, subverting a Justice Department foreign agent registration order and string of presidential pardons generated an assumption of criminal immunity within the Israel lobby. They review new tactics US law enforcement agencies are implementing to stem Israeli commercial espionage operations in the United States and why President Obama can't stop illegal settlements as a minor first step toward Middle East peace. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith makes the case to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman that the US needs to crack down on US charities laundering tax exempt donations into illegal Israeli settlements. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:00 -0500 Jeffrey Blankfort discusses his groundbreaking analysis of a Pew Research poll of Council on Foreign Relations members, which finds them less supportive of current US-Israel relations than the general public. Later in the program Blankfort and Grant Smith discuss findings from the new IRmep book "Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy" and the current AIPAC drive for economic sanctions and military strikes on Iran. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith discusses Freedom of Information Act requests under the Obama administrations "assumption of openness" mandate, and why the Israel lobby has become "too connected" to be regulated with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith discusses Steven Rosen’s defamation lawsuit against AIPAC, the “everyone else does it” excuse for trafficking in classified information and the DOJ’s history of capitulation to the Israel lobby with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Grant F. Smith confronts the Saban Center's Martin Indyk about how improprieties in negotiating the US-Israel Free Trade Area might affect the willingness of other countries to pact trade deals with Israel. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:09:00 -0500 PressTV Washington correspondent Jihan Hafiz interviews Grant F. Smith about recent Israeli pharmaceutical violations of the US-Israel Free Trade Area. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton and Grant F. Smith discuss Steve Rosen’s lawsuit against AIPAC, the increasing political stakes in the upcoming Rosen/Weissman espionage trial, the growing political pressure for Barak Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to dismiss the case and the possibility that AIPAC’s function as a foreign agent will be openly discussed in court. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Chicago radio host Ray Hanania and Grant Smith discuss an upcoming IRmep report about the US-Israel Free Trade Area's negative impact on jobs and intellectual property of US industries. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:09:00 -0500 Radio host Serif S. Fam interviewed Grant Smith on WZBC Cambridge, Massachusetts on his Sunday program "This Week in Palestine." They discussed the history of the Israel lobby and how Obama's cabinet picks will impact the Middle East. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:00 -0500 Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio interviews Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and author of America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government. They discusses the intrigue behind the AIPAC espionage case, long range patterns of Neocon activity in the Pentagon and the history behind the Logan Act. They also cover corporate media issue framing, the likely continuity of Mideast Washington consensus policy in an Obama administration and AIPAC's imposition of obstacles toward US exports to the Mideast. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0500 Presidential candidates fiercely debate nuclear proliferation in the Middle East—with one caveat: Israel's nuclear weapons. Jeffrey Blankfort of the Pacifica Radio "Takes on the World" program interviews Grant Smith about the new book "America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government". http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0500 How do the radical views and beliefs of National Security Council advisor Elliot Abrams thwart Middle East peace? In what sense are Israeli nuclear weapons aimed at influencing US policy more than a deterrent to regional competitors? Dr. Kevin Barrett interviews Grant Smith about these and other issues. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:09:00 -0500 Many Americans question the source of Israel's strong political influence in this country. An answer, at least in part, may be offered in Grant Smith's new book, "Foreign Agents - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fullbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal." A criminal trial against two AIPAC executives will commence this spring, and Smith suggests that Americans will learn more as it unfolds about how Israel lobbyists violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act in their attempts to influence American foreign policy. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:39:00 -0500 Neoconservatives of the "Project for a New American Century" wanted more US GDP dedicated to military spending and war. They've gotten their wish, but at what cost to the economy? Also, how the US media responds to the Sibel Edmonds question, and the futility of asking the Israel lobby to recognize itself. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:15:00 -0500 The November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate derailed the Israel lobby's drive for a US war with Iran. Or did it? http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:15:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses the naval incident in the Straits of Hormuz, the Bush visit to Palestine, and the real cost of US-Israel trade policy. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses with INN host Leonard Charles the factors weighing against the AIPAC espionage case making it to trial in April of 2008. http://www.irmep.org/audio.htm Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:55:00 -0500 Grant Smith discusses with Epilogue host Martin Short how weak US election law enforcement enables AIPAC power building over the US Congress. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On August 19, Grant Smith discussed upcoming book "Foreign Agents" on WBAI's "Walden's Pond" with radio host Shelton Walden. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On January 25, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On February 23, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education on Viewpoint with James Zogby http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On January 25, Grant Smith discussed the newly released report "Visa Denied: How Anti-Arab Visa Policies Destroy US Exports, Jobs and Higher Education. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:55:00 -0500 On October 18, Grant Smith appeared with Jeffrey Blankfort on Takes on the World the dauting problem of special interest policymakers thwarting US national interests. Smith reviews chapters of the book "Deadly Dogma". http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 29, Grant Smith appeared at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC to discuss the theories behind the Neoconservative "Clean Break" plan written by Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith. He then analyzed the changing environment as law enforcement positions itself to take a more proactive stance against Espionage, Foreign Agent Registration, and Logan Act violations by US policymakers. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 23, Grant Smith appeared with author and WYZX Radio host Jeffrey Blankfort to discuss findings in "Deadly Dogma" and how the neoconservative influence continues to damage US Middle East policy. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 14, Grant Smith appeared on WWRL Radio with Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the UN Ceasefire resolution and new information revealing the attacks on Lebanon as a "dry run" for future attacks on Iran. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:20:42 -0500 On August 15, Grant Smith appeared with WBAI Radio host Shelton Walden to discuss his new book and how the IRmep's Center for Policy and Law Enforcement is eduating US attorneys about FARA, Espionage Act and Wire Fraud prosecution strategies. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm 15 Aug 2006 17:55:00 -0500 On August 14, Grant Smith appeared on WWRL Radio with Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the UN Ceasefire resolution and new information revealing the attacks on Lebanon as a "dry run" for future attacks on Iran. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:20:42 -0500 On August 11, Grant Smith appeared on the LinkTV show Viewpoint to discuss IRmep's book "Neocon Middle East Policy: the 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment." (Available at http://www.irmep.org/cbda.htm) Other topics included legal violations of key neoconservative policymakers, flaws in core policy, and how rejection of international law has also diminshed respect for domestic US law. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:20:42 -0500 On November 10, Grant Smith appeared on the Jim Greenfield show to discuss IRmep's book "Neocon Middle East Policy: the 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment." (Available at http://www.irmep.org/cbda.htm) Other topics included tackling the real causes vs the hype factor and rhetoric in the news media's discussion of suicide terrorism, and the Beirut Declaration. Plus all the news, notes, and political nonsense of the week http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:20:42 -0500 Was the 1967 Arab Israeli war inevitable? What is the true refugee status of Palestinians? What do the data say about how to really confront suicide terrorism? Grant Smith clears up common misconceptions in a debate with Armstrong Williams. http://www.irmep.org/mp3/archives.cfm 10 Nov 2005 12:20:42 -0500