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“The truth will set you free: Fake news and journalism for peace” is Pope Francis’s message for the 2018 World Day of Social Communications which seeks to eliminate the spread of false information with truth. An omission is a failure to do something one can and ought to do. By Eileen Fleming “The truth will set…
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Vice President Mike Pence is in the Middle East this weekend for meetings with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Israel. The White House originally presented Pence’s trip as focused on supporting Christian communities in the Middle East. However, following POTUS Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinians declared that Pence, the ‘guiding…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an American federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year. In his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. warned us in 1967: “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce…
Last Tuesday Israel’s Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen made a rare appearance at a Finance Ministry conference to address ongoing protests in Iran and reassured his audience that Israel “has eyes, ears and even more” in Iran. ONE woman who had eyes, ears and even more in the White House during The Six Day War was President…
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Ahed Tamimi became HOPE in action as a seven-year old when she raised a fist and her voice against fully armed Israeli soldiers. “HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine. In December Ahed Tamimi, now sixteen was arrested and indicted…
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“When I’m Sixty-Four” by the BEATLES was released in 1967 on the forever young “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. “HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine By Eileen Fleming It was 50 years ago last June…
On Thursday Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear whistle blower published a photo of himself alongside the statue of St. Stephen at St. Stephens Church in east Jerusalem and tweeted: “Life continue. waiting for my freedom to travel, now after 32 years with all the restrictions. nothing changes, nothing to report, nothing to post. see you in…
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To honor POTUS Trump for his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv; Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced Israel’s Donald John Trump Station and the digging of a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City next to the Western Wall. Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Israel’s Separation Wall…
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Samia Nasir Khoury author of “Reflections from Palestine: A Journey of Hope” emailed the following ‘thank you’ to Mr. Trump titled BLACKMAILING, which inspired a repetition of this American Citizen of Conscience Manifesto directed at Mr. Trump. On the Thursday before Christmas the following gift of knowledge and wisdom in an email from Palestine arrived regarding Mr. Trump titled:…
Once upon a time being an Evangelical was about sharing the gospel [good news] that Jesus actually taught, such as Peacemakers are the children of God. During the reign of President Reagan evangelical became a matter of which lever to pull in a voting booth and Christian fundamentalism spread into the mainstream. Fundamentalists uphold belief…
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Author Phillip F. Nelson drafted an important Petition to Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, calling for the APPEAL OF U.S. NAVY DECISION To Name a Navy Ship after President Lyndon B. Johnson. Nelson lists many reasons WHY a USS LBJ would be a slap in the face to every crew member of the USS LIBERTY,…
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Off Guardian was created by internationals weary of their comments being censored by The Guardian’s Comment Is Free Forum/CiF. Having been censored and blocked by The Guardian after offering UNCENSORED “30 Minutes with Vanunu” Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower, I quit reading The Guardian years ago. This reporter posted the following comment on an Open Forum…
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This former Candidate of Conscience for US HOUSE ran against the then incumbent Congresswoman Corrine Brown in 2012. This American learned I will never be a politician but I would persist to write about them. On Monday, former Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D) was charged on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to five…
The Daily Beast on Tuesday and MSN online on Wednesday, published Gareth Browne’s “Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot Gets Dragged Into a Real-Life Israel-Arab Spy Drama”. Gareth Browne is a “Brit in Beirut” who writes for The Daily Star, “Lebanon’s leading English-language newspaper [bringing] you breaking news and in-depth analysis on local, Middle East, and international…
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On Wednesday POTUS Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos depicting violence by Muslims tweeted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the Britain First Movement. Britain First is a far-right ultranationalist group that purports to document Muslim activity across Britain and Europe. By Eileen Fleming Britain First formed in 2011 as an offshoot of the far-right, fascist party…
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USS Liberty survivor of The Six Day War Donald Pageler, Palestinian Christian Authors, and Jewish Israeli BDS Activist exemplify HOPE in action for Thanksgiving 2017. “HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine By Eileen Fleming Donald Pageler survived Israel’s…
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Damnation is defined as the act of sending someone to hell or the state of being in hell. By the 14th century, the word ‘damnation’ was understood as being “condemned” as in a court of law. “Vanunu is a living death, a man who cannot leave the country who cannot speak to foreigners”-Avigdor Feldman, Israeli Human…
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Before departing Jerusalem in 2005, This American concluded hours of interviews with Vanunu by telling him: “I will tell as in WRITE your story UNTIL Israel frees Vanunu, because it’s a mission from God for me.” By Eileen Fleming Last Wednesday Israel’s nuclear whistle blower TWEETED regarding the “irreversible”: Nov’ 6 2017.in the israel supreme…
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