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Netanyahu thanks U.S. for blocking a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East

Posted on May 24, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Netanyahu thanks U.S. for blocking a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East

By Eileen Fleming   On Saturday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a decision that would task the UN secretary general with convening an international conference on making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone by March 2016. U.S. Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller…

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Mordechai Vanunu Weds Norwegian Professor in Jerusalem

Posted on May 20, 2015September 29, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu Weds Norwegian Professor in Jerusalem

By Eileen Fleming   On Wednesday at Facebook’s Free Mordechai Vanunu Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower wrote: “Vanunu Married Kristine,in The Redeemer church,Jerusalem ,May 19.2015.“     The headline in Norway read Vanunu giftet seg med norske Kristin and the following is excerpted from Google Translate: It was yesterday morning that the two said yes to…

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Mordechai Vanunu Reports Israel Renews Human Rights Restrictions 12th year

Posted on May 8, 2015September 29, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Mordechai Vanunu Reports Israel Renews Human Rights Restrictions 12th year

 By Eileen Fleming On Thursday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu reported: May 7.2015 The latest news in my case, the Freedom again was postponed. The freedom we are waiting for, it did not come, and instead, I got the renew of restrictions, for the 12th year since 2004.  Paying a libel suit to the Israel…

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Heated Rhetoric at 2015 NPT Review Conference

Posted on April 28, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Heated Rhetoric at 2015 NPT Review Conference

By Eileen Fleming (Washington/New York)—On Monday Iran led the call by non-aligned nations for Israel to give up its nuclear weapons as the 2015 NPT Review Conference got underway. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted that the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is demanding that “Israel, the only one in the region that has neither…

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Today in History Mordechai Vanunu Speaks 21 April 2004 & 2015

Posted on April 21, 2015April 21, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Today in History Mordechai Vanunu Speaks 21 April 2004 & 2015

By Eileen Fleming [East Jerusalem, Israel] Today Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu marked the first day into his twelfth year of open-air captivity after 18 years behind bars writing Update #18 to the Petition to World Media and Israel We are not free until Vanunu is FREE: April 21-2004-2015,Vanunu waiting for freedom NOW to leave…

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U.S. Documents Corroborate Mordechai Vanunu RE: Israeli WMD

Posted on April 17, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 7 Comments on U.S. Documents Corroborate Mordechai Vanunu RE: Israeli WMD

On Wednesday The National Security Archive of George Washington University published documents corroborating much of what Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu has been saying for twenty-nine years. The documents detail the discovery of Israel’s nuclear deceptions, debates over Israel’s lack of candor and efforts to pressure the Israelis to answer key questions about the…

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Resurrection of Mordechai Vanunu Ends the Legend of Vanunu

Posted on April 2, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Resurrection of Mordechai Vanunu Ends the Legend of Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming On Palm Sunday 2015, Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu resurrected his Facebook and Causes connections which ended my Administrative duties over the last three years while Vanunu was on sabbatical from the WWW. Vanunu inherited 21,000+ supporters at what had been known as TNT/Telling Nuclear Truths which he re-christened “Mordechai vanunu”. Vanunu…

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The Daily Show and Israeli Apartheid #FreeVanunu #TDS @Trevornoah @TheDailyShow

Posted on March 30, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on The Daily Show and Israeli Apartheid #FreeVanunu #TDS @Trevornoah @TheDailyShow

By Eileen Fleming On Monday The New York Times broke the news that Trevor Noah will succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ and quoted the 31-year-old South African, “I didn’t live a normal life – I grew up in a country that wasn’t normal.” Mr. Noah grew up in Soweto, the son of a…

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Mordechai Vanunu: Cases of Libel and Extortion Security and Press

Posted on March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Mordechai Vanunu: Cases of Libel and Extortion Security and Press

By Eileen Fleming   Israel’s internal Security Agency is best known by the acronym Shabak or Shin Bet and is similar to the FBI. This report argues Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s cases of libel and extortion against them by way of definition: Libel is defamation by written words which becomes a criminal act when published. Extortion…

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US Israel Nuclear Entanglements and Occupation of Palestine #FreeVanunu #FreePalestine

Posted on March 18, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on US Israel Nuclear Entanglements and Occupation of Palestine #FreeVanunu #FreePalestine

By Eileen Fleming Decades of US Israel nuclear entanglements and occupation of Palestine have reaped a tangled mass impeding movement. Once anyone or thing is entangled; extrication does not come easily but is possible. From Jerusalem on Monday, The New York Times reported, Netanyahu Says No to Statehood for Palestinians…Mr. Netanyahu’s chief challenger, Isaac Herzog of…

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Responding to Netanyahu and The New York Times Re: Vanunu, Israel’s WMD and Occupation Palestine

Posted on March 4, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Responding to Netanyahu and The New York Times Re: Vanunu, Israel’s WMD and Occupation Palestine

By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower marked the 7th anniversary of the establishment of his YouTube Channel: Vanunu Mordechai   Joined Mar 4, 2008-Mar-4-2015.and my words still very clear and strong,without any answers,still waiting to real freedom.freedom of speech and freedom of movements,from this the only Non democracy state in the middl east…

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Congress and Media must address Israel’s WMD and State Torture of Vanunu

Posted on February 28, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Congress and Media must address Israel’s WMD and State Torture of Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming   President Obama’s timely declassification of this 1987 report on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Aljazeera’s SPY CABLES  must be the final straw to force USA Media and Congress to end their cooperation in Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions and State torture of Mordechai Vanunu. This Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress…

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Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate

Posted on February 15, 2015October 4, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate
Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate

By Eileen Fleming   The real impact of Jon Stewart and how the bogus anchor influenced real anchors is a story in progress; but for this reporter it all began when The Daily Show went back on the air nine nights after THAT DAY we call 911. Watch it HERE Jon began by asking, “are…

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Netanyahu and Congress: Let’s Talk Israel’s Nukes @nytimes

Posted on February 11, 2015October 13, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Netanyahu and Congress: Let’s Talk Israel’s Nukes @nytimes

By Eileen Fleming   On Monday at a Likud election rally in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored the increasing congressional efforts to dissuade him from speaking before the U.S. Congress on March 3rd claiming: “A bad deal with Iran is forming in Munich that will endanger Israel’s existence. … Therefore I am determined…

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Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu

Posted on February 4, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu
Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday Amnesty International emailed this update and action request in support of a free Mordechai Vanunu: Once again, the Israel High Court of Justice (HCJ) has rejected Vanunu’s petition against restrictions on his freedom of movement, association and expression, in their decision dated 25 January 2015. In summary, the judges basically…

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Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later

Posted on January 31, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later
Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later

By Eileen Fleming John Boehner’s latest boner –meaning a clumsy or stupid mistake- was inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint Session of Congress two weeks before the Israeli elections in March.  Boehner’s invite inserted Bibi into the middle of the dispute between the President and Republicans over Iran’s nuclear program which…

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Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on January 3, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming   On Saturday Mordechai Vanunu’s attorney Michael Sfard wrote on his Facebook Wall regarding Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s latest petition for his right to leave Israel: 11 year after Mordechai Vaanunu was released from prison but placed in an administrative cell made of limitation orders barring him from communications with non-Israelis, the State…

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Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

Posted on December 18, 2014October 9, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

By Eileen Fleming   Banksy, the graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter depicts 21st century Bethlehem reality onto holiday greeting cards and informational cards with this message:   Towering walls and militarized fences now encircle Bethlehem, turning the 4,000-year-old city into a virtual prison for its Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens. Bethlehem has…

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