Scott Horton Interviews Grant F. Smith
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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.
MP3 here. (34:46)
Grant F. Smith is the author of Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy, America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government and Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal. He is a frequent contributor to Radio France Internationale and Voice of America’s Foro Interamericano. Smith has also appeared on BBC News, CNN, and C-SPAN. He is currently director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.
expat
August 26th, 2010 at 3:12 am
Facebook has blocked this interview from being "shared"; someone has complained about the content of the interview.
Could it be one of the perpetual "victims" ?
Sara La
August 26th, 2010 at 7:00 am
In this part of the world, when politicians get money in return for favours, it’s called corruption!
eCAHNomics
August 26th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Thanks for the fact-filled presentation; important to know the documentary evidence, which I did not.
andy
August 26th, 2010 at 9:12 am
What we need is campaign finance reform.
JDonald
August 26th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I will not give more funding to support antiwar.com since they censor comments from readers as biasedly as most other of the current media. Why reasoned, intellectual arguments about the Jewish domination of American political decisions cannot be said in comments on antiwar.com is beyond my imagination. It happens and should be vetted.
vito
August 26th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
what happened to "free press?"
Orville H. Larson
August 26th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Hmmm . . . I detect the presence of anti-free speech Zionists!
Orville H. Larson
August 26th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Well, in Washington, District of Corruption, when politicians receive money for favors, it's called "campaign contributions"!
Orville H. Larson
August 26th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
As always, it’s good to hear from Grant Smith. He’s an expert on AIPAC, the slimy, perfidious Israeli lobby/fifth column in this country.
Listen to him, read his books, and learn.
Maximov
August 29th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I happened to come across this site. A bunch of paranoids write some text and call it "free press – free speech". They seem to mignore that the Arab lobby is ass if not more powerful as the Israeli lobby. And each side pushes their pawns as in a casino. What a casino!
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March 13th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
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