Rupert Murdock VS. Edward R. Murrow and Izzy Stone

On Saturday morning, Rupert Murdoch apologized to the British public in a full-page advertisement that will run for three days in seven national newspapers stating: “We are sorry. The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself. We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred. We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected.” The apology was first published the day after two of Murdoch’s senior executives resigned over a phone hacking... Read article

John Hagee, Martin Luther King, Jr: Birmingham Alabama & the UK

Fundamentalist and rabid Zionist fire and brimstone preacher John Hagee is taking his ‘mission’ to Birmingham, UK on 18-20 August, “teaching the Book of Revelation” with the “goal” to “reveal the world tomorrow, confirm the total accuracy of Bible prophecy and give you a better understanding of the current crisis America and the world are facing.” [1] Hagee and his ‘disciples’ should begin at the very end of the book of Revelation which “warns everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book:... Read article

Failures of Intelligence

Failures of Intelligence Is Why “America is Beautiful But She Has An Ugly Side” “Lookin’ for a leader to bring our country home. Re-unite the red white and blue, before it turns to stone…America has a leader, but he’s not in The House…America is beautiful but she has an ugly side. We’re lookin’ for a leader with the Great Spirit on his side.” -  Neil Young This citizen of conscience for U.S. House of Representatives 2012 asserts that America’s ugly side is rooted in failures of intelligence, heretical... Read article

It’s Always About The Money So On With This REVOLUTION!

As the August 2nd deadline fast approaches to raise the government-borrowing limit, President Obama called on Congress two days before this Independence Day to make a deal and announced, “Nothing can be off-limits…We’ve got to cut the deficit.” [1] Republican Senator Dan Coats responded, “It’s time for bold action and a new plan to address our current crisis” and that it was time for the government to “stop spending money we don’t have and to enact policies that will grow our economy and get Americans back... Read article

Bomb’em Bolton and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Tools of and for Zionism? Last week Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen swooned, “I love John Bolton” after Bolton informed the Committee: “I’ve argued for [military strikes against Iran] for about three and a half years. Absent military action against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Iran will have weapons much sooner rather than later. It’s a big mistake to conclude, as I believe the Administration has, that a nuclear Iran can be contained and deterred.”[1] Bolton also claimed... Read article

Mr. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Tear Down This Wall!

[Bilin, West Bank] Six years of weekly protests against the route of Israel’s separation wall and four years after the Israeli high court declared the path of The Wall illegal and admitted its purpose had nothing to do with ‘security’ but with settlement expansion, Israeli army bulldozers began to dismantle The Wall in Bilin this week. The new path of The Wall sanctioned by the high court still leaves 435 acres of village land on the Israeli side, and thus The Bilin Popular Committee has declared June 24th will be... Read article

Christians Flee Holy Land in Mass Modern Exodus

Dateline Jerusalem:  Christian Trail of Tears on the Move While Archbishop of Canterbury Plays Blame Game… In a recent BBC radio interview for the program “”World at One” the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed concerns about Christian minority populations all across the Middle East where life for Christians was “becoming unsustainable.” The Archbishop is also organizing a conference to raise awareness of the “hemorrhaging of Christian populations from the Holy Land. The fact that Bethlehem, a majority... Read article

Beware of Bachmann Palin and Religion in Politics

Less than 24 hours after President Obama stated: “The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous... Read article

Candidate for U.S. House Advocates Peoples Takoever

(Florida) - When I was a novice reporter six years ago, I learned that it was at the end of the interview that you heard the beginning of the story and I learned it again the other day.   Case in point: I was writing my first work of fiction in 2005 when I stumbled into becoming a reporter and that lead to becoming the only reporter in the world who bothered to document Mordechai Vanunu’s Freedom of Speech trial in Israel. Because I love America enough to stand up and speak the hard truths I had no choice but to persist... Read article

USS LIBERTY and Acts of Congress

As the first candidate of the Citizen of CONSCIENCE for House of Representatives 2012 , IF I am elected, my first act of Congress will be to issue an Invitation all of the USS Liberty survivors to speak on the Congressional Record about what they saw on that day in infamy: 8 June 1967, when the US Government Failed to Support the Troops, during the Six Day War. The attack on the USS Liberty remains “the only incident of damage to a major US ship since the sinking of the USS MAINE in Havana Harbour in 1898, prior to... Read article

An Evening with Helen Thomas

And Flashback to John Lennon and Vanunu Mordechai… [Washington, D.C.] When I heard the call to “Move Over AIPAC: Building a New US Middle East Policy” I immediately became one of over100 organizations to endorse it; but I didn’t commit to attend the event until I learned that journalist Helen Thomas was to be the keynote speaker. By the time I booked my flight, Ms. Thomas had been “disinvited” because of the pressure from a few particular people who had still not gotten over her flaming honesty expressed... Read article

Out of the Belly of AIPAC and Why I am too RED to be Pink!

AIPAC/American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference brought together over 11,000 sisters, brothers and cousins in the Family of Father Abraham-including 1,500 youth representing 400 schools and 215 universities, 500 journalists from 2 dozen countries and representatives of over 100 endorsing organizations to Move AIPAC Over: http://www.moveoveraipac.org/ On 22 May 2011, inside the Washington Convention Center, Lee Rosenberg, the President of AIPAC greeted that crowd by saying: “We are here because we... Read article

Israel’s Best Friends Are Its Worst Enemies

Only if we truly love our friends will we always tell them the truth and call them on their bad behavior. When religion and politics get in bed together, we the people for JUSTICE and PEACE get screwed. Many of my Christian sisters and brothers are members of the fastest growing cult in America: Christian Zionism-which has nothing much in common with what Jesus was all about- and one of its leader is the fundamentalist fire and brimstone preacher, John Hagee. On 6 November 2007, I attended a Hagee fest in Miami, Florida... Read article

The Fierce Urgency of All Thing Nuclear

A Book Review in Light of Current Events… “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. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” -John F. Kennedy  September 25, 1961 “APOCALYSE NEVER: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World” by Dr. Tad Daley, not only envisions but offers us the ways to seize JFK’s dream; and the fierce... Read article

Moving AIPAC Over with Facts, Founders and Activists

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress during his visit to Washington next month. He also is headline speaker for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee/AIPAC’s Annual Conference. Other confirmed speakers include: John Boehner (R-OH) Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives Harry Reid (D-NV) Majority Leader, U.S. Senate Robert Casey (D-PA) U.S. Senate John Thune (R-SD) U.S. Senate Eric Cantor (R-VA) Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives Steny... Read article

Land Day 2011 and BDS All The Way Until Israel Ends the Occupation

As part of the Global BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Day of Action commemorating Land Day, Adalah-NY: the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel grabbed the attention of busy commuters with a song and dance twisted to remind people to boycott Israel and honor Land Day: BDS Flash Mob in Grand Central Station, NYC “Land Day” commemorates the killing of six Palestinians, 96 wounded and 300 arrested on March 30, 1976, in the Galilee. The anticipated peaceful demonstration by Palestinians was a response to... Read article

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