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Liberty means Freedom By Eileen Fleming UPDATED 5/5/16: Around 10 AM EST Corporate office for Orlando Sentinel left a phone message that the ad must be edited to NOT mention Israel– which is on the bottom line in red. Art Support has been notified and this story TBC once AD complies and goes live USS Liberty…
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Israel’s nuclear time-bomb exposed in ultrasound examination of Dimona reactor: 1,537 defects seen in the aluminum core By Eileen Fleming In April a Scientific forum in Tel Aviv released the ultrasound examination of Israel’s Nuclear reactor which revealed 1,537 defects in the aluminum core of the Dimona. On Tuesday, Israel’s Haaretz reported: Fears for the condition of…
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On Monday the Useful Stooges asked: What’s the Arab Daily News? Because of a Google Alert for “Eileen Fleming” this reporter learned I had been tagged in the anonymously written post “The “peace troubadour”: a follow-up” at the Useful Stooges Word Press site which noted The Arab Daily News article Abrahamic Reunion at the Golan Heights…
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New Book by Senior Non-Arab Correspondent and Health Reporter for The Arab Daily News is a political, medical and spiritual memoir New book by Eileen Fleming began in 2013 when medical experts recommended the then 59 year old undergo bilateral total knee replacements to relieve pain due to bone on bone grinding. Instead the retired…
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“The Revolution starts now, when you rise above your fear and tear the walls round you down.”-Steve Earle By Eileen Fleming “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures” as President John F. Kennedy said. Pieces of Peace include a state of tranquility…
With gratitude to YOU for reading this Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for USA’s The Arab Daily News this post serves as my Leave of Absence Notice. By Eileen Fleming When my baby brother James A. Kasmir died by suicide last February, I embarked upon a mission to help end the stigma of mental illness in the…
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Daesh is another word for ISIS and an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham meaning Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. By Eileen Fleming ISIS militants hate the word Daesh because “it is similar to the Arabic words ‘Daes’, ‘one who crushes something underfoot’ and ‘Dahes’, translated as ‘one who sows…
On Friday Mordechai Vanunu wrote regarding his 8th Supreme Court Appeal, “I had a court hearing on [October 26, 2015]. We appealed all the restrictions. I even spoke to the Judges. They gave to the police 90 days to end their investigation for last arrest, after that they will decide.” Vanunu also wrote, “Without Freedom…
Jon Stewart’s sixteen-year stint at The Daily Show ends on the 70th Anniversary of America’s Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The still not free Mordechai Vanunu was kidnapped from Rome by Israel’s Mossad a few days before the British newspaper The Sunday Times ran a front page story under the headline: “Revealed: the secrets of Israel’s…
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By Eileen Fleming Ernest A. Gallo ‘retired’ from the CIA to Florida and became an activist and author of LIBERTY INJUSTICES: A Survivor’s Account of American Bigotry Since 2002 Gallo has served as the Chairman and Liberty Foundation President of the USS liberty Veterans Association and travels extensively to ignite fires in his listeners…
By Eileen Fleming The first thing we take in life is a breath and the last thing we give up is a breath. But unlike any other function of the body, breathing relies equally on the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems. In the West, most of us never focus on even one of the 20,000…
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By Eileen Fleming The Daily Kos promotes itself as a weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective. Seven years after my first banning at the Daily Kos which I documented here: It Sure Smells Like a Right Wing Zionist Cabal at The Daily Kos , I returned on Sunday with: Charlie…
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By Eileen Fleming Where children play in Gaza 20,000 homes are destroyed and uninhabitable and over 100,000 Palestinians are homeless, or crowded in with relatives. Building materials promised by the UN and international donors are stalled or unavailable and once again Governments around the world agreed to shoulder the burden of Zionist impunity by pledging…
By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Fifteen years ago Reverend Dave Smith established The Order of Fighting Fathers a global group of priests and regular people, committed to Fighting the Good Fight against injustice, prejudice, drugs and poverty, by challenging and encouraging each other to spread the truth in love in the…
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Gaza residents await reconstruction in wake of Israeli war crimes US Pledges $212 million during conference this week in Cairo By Mohammed Asad with Ray Hanania Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip await word from the reconstruction conference being held in Cairo, Egypt of Arab World leaders on when they might see the rebuilding of…
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Gaza Human Rights group: probe sinking of ship that killed 400 refugees Human Rights Group Investigates, Calls for International Action in Response to Sinking of Boat Carrying Asylum Seekers Photos by Mohammed Asad, Gaza Strip, Palestine Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories – An international investigation must be launched into the smuggling operation that…
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Block the Boat Versus Israeli Zim Shipping Company By Eileen Fleming Block the Boat actions against Israel-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services, began in Oakland, California and quickly spread to Tacoma, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Tampa. Last month in Oakland, four days of demonstrations by Block the Boat activists stopped the Zim Piraeus from fully unloading…
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Gaza children begin school amid devastation caused by Israeli violence By Mohammed Asad More than 50,000 Palestinian school children showed up for the first day of classes at more than 125 schools in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, weeks after Israel abruptly ended its vicious military assault and violence against the civilian population. Children were forced to gather…
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