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Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters

Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters
Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters

Iran: Leaked documents reveal top-level orders to armed forces to ‘mercilessly confront’ protesters Iran’s highest military body instructed the commanders of armed forces in all provinces to “severely confront” protesters who took to the streets following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police, Amnesty International said today (Friday…

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World community should do more than rejecting Israel’s baseless terrorist accusation against Palestinian NGOs

Posted on January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 By Ghassan Rubeiz No Comments on World community should do more than rejecting Israel’s baseless terrorist accusation against Palestinian NGOs
World community should do more than rejecting Israel’s baseless terrorist accusation against Palestinian NGOs

World community should do more than rejecting Israel’s baseless terrorist accusation against Palestinian NGOs By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Israel continues to invent methods to silence voices of justice, using the “law of the land” as a pretext. A policy of discouraging Palestinian civil society is bound to encourage alternative methods of resistance: possibly a third…

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Vanunu still has more nuclear secrets to spill, Israeli court declares

Posted on December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Vanunu still has more nuclear secrets to spill, Israeli court declares
Vanunu still has more nuclear secrets to spill, Israeli court declares

Vanunu still has more nuclear secrets to spill, Israeli court declares On the last Tuesday of 2021, Israel’s Haaretz reported “Israel Thinks Nuke Spy Vanunu Still Has More Secrets to Spill.” An Israeli judge recently suggested to defense officials that they meet with Mordechai Vanunu, but the former spy’s lawyer is being banned from the meeting,…

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Five issues threaten Israel’s future security April 18, 2021

Posted on April 18, 2021April 18, 2021 By Ghassan Rubeiz 1 Comment on Five issues threaten Israel’s future security April 18, 2021
Five issues threaten Israel’s future security April 18, 2021

Five issues threaten Israel’s future security April 18, 2021 By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Israel’s act of sabotage on Iran’s central nuclear facility on April 11 raises several questions. Tel-Aviv seems to live in a climate of unusual impunity. It has so far managed to escape punitive consequences for its territorial occupation, displacement of indigenous people…

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Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 By Ghassan Rubeiz 1 Comment on Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East
Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East

Increasingly Questionable US military presence in the Middle East By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz The expanding US military presence in the Mideast reveals a number of central problems. The threats of ISIS lie dormant. The new discoveries of vast fields of natural gas and oil in the Mediterranean Levant basin (and elsewhere) are temptations for state…

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President Carter’s Cover-up: Vanunu Mordechai’s Status Quo

Posted on September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on President Carter’s Cover-up: Vanunu Mordechai’s Status Quo
President Carter’s Cover-up: Vanunu Mordechai’s Status Quo

A Google Alert for “Vanunu” announced “Report: Carter Administration Covered Up Clandestine Israeli Nuclear Test.” The link led to The Jewish Press article that repeated the lie that Mordechai Vanunu was an “Israeli scientist” By Eileen Fleming Mordechai Vanunu holds BA’s in geography and philosophy. Vanunu was never a scientist but a mid-level nuclear technician…

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Israel’s Nuclear Weapons and the USS LIBERTY

Posted on July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons and the USS LIBERTY
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons and the USS LIBERTY

This week another fact emerged regarding Israel’s nuclear weapons and their attack on the USS Liberty, America’s premier surveillance ship during the Six-Day War By Eileen Fleming In October 2007, this American began to learn about the USA Government cover-up of Israel’s 8 June 1967 attack on the USS Liberty while navigating in international waters…

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Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower or Tool?

Posted on April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower or Tool?
Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower or Tool?

Last week Adam Raz wrote for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “Thirty years after the espionage case that rocked Israel and exposed its nuclear secrets, it can be asked whether Mordechai Vanunu is actually tool in the hands of vested interests.” The top three definitions of “tool” at the Urban Dictionary are: A guy with a hugely over-inflated ego, Someone whose…

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Consequences of nixing the Iran deal

Posted on October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 By Ghassan Rubeiz 1 Comment on Consequences of nixing the Iran deal
Consequences of nixing the Iran deal

Consequences of nixing the Iran deal By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz The US Administration cannot afford to create conditions that may lead to a new war in the Middle East. President Donald Trump is expected to challenge the JCPOA agreement with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Trump considers this international nuclear deal with France,…

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Mother of Mother’s Day & Women’s March to Ban the Bomb

Posted on May 5, 2017September 25, 2018 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Mother of Mother’s Day & Women’s March to Ban the Bomb
Mother of Mother’s Day & Women’s March to Ban the Bomb

Mother of Mother’s Day & Women’s March to Ban the Bomb Mother’s Peace Day was a call to all mothers to rally for Peace. Mother’s for Peace faded away after President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the day as Mother’s Day in 1914. Anna Jarvis is known as the “Mother of Mother’s Day” who fought against the “hordes of…

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Beyond the Beltway Radio panel tackles North Korea threat

Posted on April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 By rayhanania No Comments on Beyond the Beltway Radio panel tackles North Korea threat
Beyond the Beltway Radio panel tackles North Korea threat

Beyond the Beltway Radio panel tackles North Korea threat The weekly Sunday radio show Beyond the Beltway, hosted by veteran political writer and commentator Bruce DuMont, tackles the frightening issue of the rising threats of North Korea’s tyrant Kim Jong Un. Panelists included Asian specialist Karl Friedhoff of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs who has…

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Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, Senator Schumer The Fourth Estate and Vanunu Mordechai #Vanunu

Posted on March 3, 2017April 13, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, Senator Schumer The Fourth Estate and Vanunu Mordechai #Vanunu
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, Senator Schumer The Fourth Estate and Vanunu Mordechai #Vanunu

When asked about Israel’s nuclear weapons at the National Press Club Senator Chuck Schumer replied: “Go read the newspapers about that” By Eileen Fleming A day before President Donald Trump addressed his first joint session of Congress, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer spoke at the National Press Club on…

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Mr. Trump, 1984, This American and USS LIBERTY #PussyPower #DownWithBigBrother It’s ALL about #LIBERTY

Posted on January 29, 2017September 25, 2018 By Eileen Fleming 1 Comment on Mr. Trump, 1984, This American and USS LIBERTY #PussyPower #DownWithBigBrother It’s ALL about #LIBERTY
Mr. Trump, 1984, This American and USS LIBERTY #PussyPower #DownWithBigBrother It’s ALL about #LIBERTY

“1984” by George Orwell is 2017’s Must-Read Since Mr. Trump’s election sales of “1984” and other dystopian tales have surged. By Eileen Fleming New York Times Book Critic MICHIKO KAKUTANI wrote on January 26: “1984” shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list this week, after Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Trump, described demonstrable…

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Trump and The Resistance

Posted on January 14, 2017January 14, 2017 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Trump and The Resistance
Trump and The Resistance

Organized resistance to Donald Trump’s brand of racism, sexism, xenophobia and bigotry began before Inauguration Day Resistance is the refusal to accept or comply by way of action or argument. By Eileen Fleming Once upon a time in America newly elected presidents enjoyed a honeymoon. Donald Trump will enter the White House as the most unpopular…

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Snowden and Vanunu: Spies, Whistleblowers, Movies and Books

Posted on January 5, 2017August 20, 2019 By Eileen Fleming 1 Comment on Snowden and Vanunu: Spies, Whistleblowers, Movies and Books
Snowden and Vanunu: Spies, Whistleblowers, Movies and Books

“How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft,” by Edward Jay Epstein will be released on January 17 “Beyond Nuclear: Mordechai Vanunu’s FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker” the unauthorized biography of Israel’s nuclear whistle blower was published in 2010   By Eileen Fleming Edward Snowden and…

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Donald Trump, The Sword of Damocles and Hair-Trigger Alerts #TrumpInaugural

Posted on December 26, 2016August 20, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Donald Trump, The Sword of Damocles and Hair-Trigger Alerts #TrumpInaugural
Donald Trump, The Sword of Damocles and Hair-Trigger Alerts #TrumpInaugural

“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.” -President John F. Kennedy, 1961 By Eileen Fleming The “sword of Damocles” is an ancient parable and the modern expression of impending doom…

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Mordechai Vanunu Newstip Declined by #NYT #BreakingNews #Israel #Nuclear #WhistleBlower #Vanunu

Posted on December 21, 2016October 13, 2018 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu Newstip Declined by #NYT #BreakingNews #Israel #Nuclear #WhistleBlower #Vanunu
Mordechai Vanunu Newstip Declined by #NYT #BreakingNews #Israel #Nuclear #WhistleBlower #Vanunu

UPDATE: On January 18 Israel convicts Vanunu on 1 nonsense charge and not guilty on two UPDATE: On Sunday 15 Jan. Vanunu wrote at Facebook: Latest update with my new trial,on Jan’ 18,2017.I will be in israel court,peace court,in the Russians compound, jerusalem, at 9:30* .This Wednesday, the judge will give us his verdict of the…

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Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH

Posted on December 9, 2016August 20, 2019 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH
Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH

Rabbi is defined as a Jewish scholar or teacher. By Eileen Fleming Rabbi Evan Hoffman’s lecture Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate streaming at The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTotah Online site is NOT scholarly; But it is a slanderous screed of Vanunu rife with erroneous historical facts. The YU Torah Online site is paid…

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