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Vietnam Wall Turns 30

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Just like during the war, the names of the dead slowly appeared as I descended the gentle slope to the black granite wall and then suddenly the scope of the carnage overcame me as scores of names became hundreds and then thousands and finally over 50,000 and the brutal truth of this unnecessary tragedy overwhelmed me as I slowly and somberly climbed back into the sunlight.

May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,History,Living,Peace,Vietnam War | Read More »

Sins of Our Fathers : al-Nakba

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Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance, burying in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reverie.

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Causes,Editors Picks,Education,Europe,History,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »

Al-Nakba Then and Now

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“Everywhere except in America, the Palestinian narrative is well known.”

May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

What Jesus Would Say and Other’s Have

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“A Church that is not ready or willing to hear the voice of the oppressed and stand with justice is out of sync with the will of her Head and Maker.”-Rev. Alex Awad

May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Peace | Read More »

Thanking 60 MINUTES and Begging for More

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“When Hillary Clinton visited Jerusalem and said the wall was not against the Palestinian people, she killed us too! Christians who do not care kill us too!”

April 27th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

A Day in The Life at Strawberry Fields and IMAGINING a FREE Vanunu Mordechai

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The good news is that the restrictions that have denied Mordechai Vanunu his inalienable human rights expire before June 1st, but the bad news concerns continuing failures of Corporate Media to report on Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower.

April 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Torture on Trial

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Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped.

April 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Environment,Living,Peace,World | Read More »

Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?

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What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.

April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

How The US Uses Sexual Humiliation As a Political Tool

The US Supreme Court  held the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit jails from strip-searching all inmates, including people jailed for minor offenses. (Fernando Botero series)

The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that it is now legitimate for police to strip search any person, regardless of the reason for the arrest. Under the pretext of security concerns, U.S. capitalism is using all the tools at its disposal to attain full control of its population.

April 18th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Living,Peace,Politics | Read More »

To: President Obama, New York Corporate News Desks and my Cyber-Attackers

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A few hours after “21 April 2012: Global Call to Free Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower and a New York Event” PRWEB Press Release went live, I received my first of the usual cyber attacks that have come at me since I went online in 2005, and I seize this opportunity to address them once again.

April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Pastor Hagee’s Million Christians United For Israel

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CUFI now has as much influence with our Republican Congress as does the Jewish Zionist lobby, AIPAC.

April 8th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Editors Picks,Europe,Iran,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »

THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: A Rational Christianity and Earth Day 2012

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From 1904 until 1950, facsimile copies of “THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English” were distributed to every newly elected member of the Senate on the very day they swore their oath of office.

April 7th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Causes,Education,Environment,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Thomas Szasz – A Humanist Who Deserves Honor

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In 1989, when Radio Free America was into it’s first full year of broadcasts one of the themes most gripping to a new audience for the new medium of anti-fascist statism, sometimes called ‘populism’ Was the forum promoted around the great work of Dr. Thomas Sczaz author of ‘the myth of mental illness.’

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Peace | Read More »

Money Changers, The Resurrection and Israel’s Dimona: WMD Facility

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“What I did was sacrifice my life for the truth. In prison I really began to feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, it was like me in Dimona exposing the Israelis dirty secrets. I felt like Paul being thrown in prison for speaking the truth…”-Mordechai Vanunu

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Jesus – The Ultimate Rebel

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Today, Jesus would be considered not only a rebel, if not a terrorist, and most definitely a threat to the establishment and the status quo and the humanizing of Jesus is an essential step in the journey towards taking responsibility for that same love deepest within us all..

April 1st, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Christ Was Never a Christian but He Was Tortured by Occupying Forces

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Palm Sunday is referred to as “Passion Sunday” and it marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday…2,000 years ago the cross had no religious meaning and was not a piece of jewelry.

April 1st, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Martial Law, Karma, Facebook and Vanunu

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On March 16, the White House released the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” which gives the President the ability to impose martial law in case of a war or national emergency.

March 27th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Environment,Living,Peace | Read More »

Scientism Conquers Truth Again, and Again, and Again

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The gigantic issue of man-made ‘climate altering’ along with the difficult and complex issue of human health and disease, has given the Mattoids behind high finance the two greatest arenas for sinking Mammon’s teeth into everybody’s pliable belief systems and pocketbooks.

March 25th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Environment,Living | Read More »

2012 Intergalactic Space Probe Landing – Earthling Contact

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What would happen if we intercepted a report from an intergalactic space probe expedition that has been collecting data on Planet Earth for some time?

March 25th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Environment,Humor,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Cyber Drones and Vanunu Video

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This article was published first at my site, which was founded in July 2005; three weeks after my first of seven trips to Israel Palestine.

March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Peace,Religion | Read More »

The Stages of the Soul and How Religiosity-Fundamentalism is Holding up Evolution

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“I said, you are gods: you are all children of the Most High God.”-Psalm 82:6…The first mention of Israel in the Bible is in Genesis 32, when Jacob wrestled, struggled and then clung to the Divine being and was then renamed Israel.

March 17th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Love and Compassion VS Ego and Fear

George of Beit Jala, photo courtesy Debbie Hill

When the recent cyber attack against Gilad Atzmon began, I could only sigh and a sigh is a silent prayer. Then I said aloud, “Jesus have mercy on us all” as I recalled what Ken O’Keefe said regarding WHY we activists have not been able to end the military occupation of Palestine; because of the failure to “Check the ego at the door.”

March 15th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Education,Living,Peace | Read More »

60 MINUTES, Mossad, AEROSMITH and Stupid is as Stupid Does

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Last Sunday’s “60 Minutes”, featured a Lesley Stahl interview with Meir Dagan, who admitted that bombing Iran now is “the stupidest idea” he’d ever heard. A few other ‘stupid ideas’ out of Israel follow…

March 12th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Peace | Read More »

The Truth That Shall Set Everything Ablaze

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Nothing is more powerful than a truth whose time has come. In a world that is increasingly interconnected and viral, the search for the ultimate truth is accelerating.

March 11th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Will Colbert Grow a Pair for The Secret Policeman’s Ball Vis-a-Vis Israel’s WMD?

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Amnesty International is celebrating fifty years in support of free speech at a comedy show on March 4th in New York City with the import of The Secret Policeman’s Ball.

February 25th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Humor,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

American Kids Eating Rats for Dinner

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- To six year old little girl…”How did you feel about having to eat rats?”…”Sad”, she said.

February 14th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,Living | Read More »

Jewish Roots of Islam’s Extremism

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“Both Judaism and Islam proceeded from the same fundamental premise, influenced by the same tribal culture and practically followed the same orthodox pattern"

February 7th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,History,Living | Read More »

Dear Yoko: GIMME SOME TRUTH Vanunu Update

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“All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.”-John Lennon, 1971.

February 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

A Salute to Eric Hoffer and Gordon Duff – On Original Ideas

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The only thing new in history is America…Eric Hoffer

January 29th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Causes,Education,History,Living | Read More »

Made in USA Christian Anarchist and a Review of ALL IS GRACE

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It takes a deep faith in Jesus to speak the truth about Jesus, and only one with the deepest of faith will dare to speak the truth that Jesus spoke.

January 18th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Causes,Editors Picks,Education,History,Living,Peace,Religion | Read More »

 

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