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BDS, Intifadas and Calls to Conscience #SolidarityWaveBDS #FreePalestine

Posted on October 15, 2015October 15, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on BDS, Intifadas and Calls to Conscience #SolidarityWaveBDS #FreePalestine

On Friday October 16, an international BDS wave of action kicks off against Israel’s decades of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid policies under the banner #SolidarityWaveBDS By Eileen Fleming  BDS is a strategy that allows people of conscience to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice. On Wednesday the Palestinian BDS National…

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Mordechai Vanunu Birthday Vigil, Supreme Court Date, Jesus and John Lennon

Posted on October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu Birthday Vigil, Supreme Court Date, Jesus and John Lennon
Mordechai Vanunu Birthday Vigil, Supreme Court Date, Jesus and John Lennon

Mordechai Vanunu turns 61 on October 13. UK supporters will vigil for a Free Mordechai Vanunu on Saturday. Vanunu’s 8th Supreme Court appeal for his freedom was rescheduled from Sept. 21 to Oct. 26, 2015. By Eileen Fleming On Sunday Israel’s nuclear whistle blower, Mordechai Vanunu wrote at Facebook: When they arrested me on Sep….

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International CANNABIS EXPO and the U.S. Israel Cannabis Connection

Posted on October 5, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 4 Comments on International CANNABIS EXPO and the U.S. Israel Cannabis Connection

International CANNA PRO EXPO unites Health Care Community and Cannabis Industry with patients, caregivers and activists calling for cannabis to be regulated just as alcohol is. By Eileen Fleming [Orlando, Fl.] The International Canna Pro Expo ran from Oct. 2-4th and united the Health Care Community and Medical Cannabis Industry leaders, entrepreneurs, medical marijuana patients,…

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Netanyahu at the UN and the War on BULLSH*T!

Posted on September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Netanyahu at the UN and the War on BULLSH*T!
Netanyahu at the UN and the War on BULLSH*T!

 On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu TWEETED, On my way to #UNGA I have the great privilege and responsibility to tell the truth to the world for Israel’s sake. On Monday Trevor Noah kicked off his stint as Jon Stewart’s chosen one by vowing “the war on Bullsh*t will continue at The Daily Show….

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Mordechai Vanunu Reports and the Thomas Merton Connection

Posted on September 28, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu Reports and the Thomas Merton Connection
Mordechai Vanunu Reports and the Thomas Merton Connection

On Friday Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu wrote at Facebook Sep. 10- Nine police men come to my home with a search warrant and arrest warrant, they took all my digitale stuff, computers, iPhone, memory stick, hard drive, camera, CDs, every thing, with all the passwords to all my internet activity. They are still…

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Pope Francis and Dorothy Day Address US Congress

Posted on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Pope Francis and Dorothy Day Address US Congress
Pope Francis and Dorothy Day Address US Congress

On Thursday “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” Pope Francis addressed the World, challenged Congress and provoked America to break out of its cycle of rampant apathy fostered by politics, corporate interests and a media which encourages polarization on our one small world bleeding from hatred, greed, poverty, pollution…

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Mordechai Vanunu House Arrest Ends and Israel Wins at UN

Posted on September 17, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Mordechai Vanunu House Arrest Ends and Israel Wins at UN
Mordechai Vanunu House Arrest Ends and Israel Wins at UN

On Thursday Mordechai Vanunu’s house arrest in virtual solitary was lifted after 7 days without Internet or phone. Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme will “continue to monitor his situation.” By Eileen Fleming On Thursday The International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Conference voted down a resolution proposed by the Arab nations, which called…

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Will Bernie Sanders and Americans Engage in this Civil Discourse?

Posted on September 15, 2015September 15, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Will Bernie Sanders and Americans Engage in this Civil Discourse?
Will Bernie Sanders and Americans Engage in this Civil Discourse?

On Monday, Presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders engaged in a civil discourse at Liberty University, a leading evangelical Christian college, and built “common ground” beginning with the Bible. By Eileen Fleming Senator Sanders told the Liberty University crowd: I came here today, because I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is vitally…

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Mordechai Vanunu: Uncensored and Enshrined

Posted on September 12, 2015October 30, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu: Uncensored and Enshrined
Mordechai Vanunu: Uncensored and Enshrined

Open Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel Mission to UN, Israeli Media and what my fellow Americans need to know about Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu and USA collusion in Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions by Eileen Fleming Israel’s latest torturing of Mordechai Vanunu has been a non-story in USA Press, but…

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Vanunu gets 7 day’s House Arrest and Journalism’s Role

Posted on September 10, 2015October 30, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 5 Comments on Vanunu gets 7 day’s House Arrest and Journalism’s Role
Vanunu gets 7 day’s House Arrest and Journalism’s Role

Israel’s Army radio reported on Thursday that Mordechai Vanunu had been arrested in the early hours of September 5, after giving an interview in Hebrew on Channel 2, “in defiance of the terms under which he was released in 2004.” The interview had been cleared for broadcast by the military censor, but Israel’s nuclear whistle…

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Israel Police Investigate Mordechai Vanunu: Will Stephen Colbert Play Ball?

Posted on September 9, 2015April 13, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Israel Police Investigate Mordechai Vanunu: Will Stephen Colbert Play Ball?
Israel Police Investigate Mordechai Vanunu: Will Stephen Colbert Play Ball?

On Wednesday Israel Police opened an investigation into whether Mordechai Vanunu’s fifteen minute Hebrew speaking interview with Israeli Channel 2 “may have breached terms of jail release in comments that were not aired. “Channel 2 reported that the investigation was initiated at the request of the Shin Bet security service. It said that while all…

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9/11 Plus 14

Posted on September 1, 2015September 1, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on 9/11 Plus 14
9/11 Plus 14

On That Day we called 9/11, fourteen years ago everything changed except how we think! By Eileen Fleming There is no agreement on the number of people that have been killed so far in the ‘War on Terror’ as it has been defined by the Bush Administration to include the war in Afghanistan, the war…

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Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on July 26, 2015April 13, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu
Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu

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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What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu

Posted on July 13, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu
What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu

Last Tuesday in Toronto, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Israel’s former president Shimon Peres was in the house for a U2 concert. On the anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, Bono said, “We understand, president Peres, that you have tried to be a voice of reason and have dedicated a great part of your life –…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Entertainment, Palestine & Jordan, Video

Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!

Posted on July 10, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!
Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!

The latest witch-hunt to discredit Alison Weir, [founder and executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest] is disgracing her attackers as it underscores the dire need to educate Americans: In particular our elected representatives regarding Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY; which this activist reporter contends is…

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American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan

Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga

Posted on July 8, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga
Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga

In 2005, inspired by Jon Stewart, the Daily Show Correspondents, Brenda Starr, Dorothy Day and Mordechai Vanunu, my childhood dream of becoming a Reporter became reality. On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower wrote: Vanunu Mordechai is ready to leave israel for ever and ever,after 18 years prison+11years in east jerusalem.FreedomNow. Time come to start new Life,in…

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Calling for American Revolution II

Posted on July 2, 2015April 9, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Calling for American Revolution II
Calling for American Revolution II

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical…It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787 By Eileen Fleming On his tombstone, Thomas Jefferson expressed that he wanted to be remembered…

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American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan, Video

Healing Israel Palestine Requires Truth, Justice and Forgiveness

Posted on June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Healing Israel Palestine Requires Truth, Justice and Forgiveness

By Eileen Fleming Everything is connected and when it comes to Israel Palestine: America is deeply connected! The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-Gandhi Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense and lets go of negative…

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