eileen fleming
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."-Theodore RooseveltPatriot and author, Grant F. Smith, Director for the Institute of Research Middle East Policy publication, Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs ... Read More
[East Jerusalem] On July 8, 2008, the final act in Mordechai Vanunu's current trials plays out, when Israel either puts Vanunu behind bars for six more months, or "something else" as Vanunu wrote. Mordechai Vanunu's historic freedom of speech trial began in January 2006. In July 2007, Israel ... Read More
I'll prove my point beginning with the chords to "All Along the Watchtower" by U 2:All I've got is a red guitar, Three chords and The Truth. All I've got is my bleedin' heart, and a voice cryin' out of the wilderness to youI see there is a way out of here, a way to get some relief... I AM very ... Read More
A reflection on Iraq I wrote shortly after the USA bombed Baghdad Excerpted from KEEP HOPE ALIVEChapter 13: CATS AND COMPASSIONTerese absentmindedly caressed the pristine one hundred sheet Official Mead Composition notebook during breakfast. Terese had been writing poetry for years, but refused to ... Read More
American Palestinian Professor Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, has spent the last five years behind bars although NO jury ever returned a single guilty verdict against him. On March 3, 2008 he began his third hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. after learning he would face a third ... Read More
[Melbourne, Fl. February 25, 2008] Nearly every one of the 2,000 seats at The King Center in Brevard County was filled with fannies attached to American fundamentalists [a fundamentalist is anyone who has quit thinking] who paid $18.00 for a seat and upwards of $1,000.OO to attend the pre-show meet ... Read More
I begin this true story at its beginning in 1945, in Egypt, in the land just above the bend of the Nile, north of the Valley of the Kings, across the river from the city of Nag´ Hammâdi, near the hamlet of al-Qasr, under a cliff called Jabal al-Tarif.An Egyptian Bedouin named Mohammed Ali was out ... Read More
Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They're gonna crucify me-John LennonThe Editor-in-Chief of SOJOURNERS Magazine, the Evangelical Jim Wallis has released a new book, The Great Awakening, written with hope to wake up American institutionalized ... Read More
2006 and 2008 Video Interviews with Mordecahi Vanunu, the Whistle Blower of Israel's WMD Program are Freely Streaming on WAWA: http://www.wearewideawake.org/ After a year and a half long FREEDOM of Speech trial in Jerusalem, on July 2, 2007, an Israeli court sentenced Vanunu, to six more months ... Read More
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."-Proverbs 29, 18 - King James VersionThe ancients understood that God spoke to them in their dreams and visions. The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them ... Read More
The Stages of the Soul and How Religiosity/Fundamentalism is holding up Evolution Part Two in a Continuing Series: "We have it in our power to begin the world again"-Tom Paine"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted ... Read More
Mordechai Vanunu and The New Fourth Estate:Whistleblowers and Agitators Up Against the empire [Jerusalem] On July 2, 2007, the whistle blower of Israel's WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to six more months in jail for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004. This member of ... Read More
Mordechai Vanunu and The New Fourth Estate:Whistleblowers and Agitators Up Against the empire [Jerusalem] On July 2, 2007, the whistle blower of Israel's WMD Program, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to six more months in jail for interviews he gave foreign media in 2004. This member of ... Read More
One of the books the Protestant Reformers threw out was The Book of Wisodm. Some say it was because it was 'too Jewish' but I say it was too FEMININE! From WISDOM 7:22-8:1:In Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique.Manifold, subtle, agile, clear, unstained, certain.Not baneful, but loving the ... Read More
The term 'Christian' was not even coined until the days of Paul, about 3 decades after Jesus walked the earth a man.Jesus was never a Christian, but he was a social, justice, radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior who rose up and challenged the job security of the Temple ... Read More
About 2,000 years ago, when Christ was about 33, he hiked up a hill and sat down under an olive tree and began to teach the people;"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven." In other words: it is those who know their own spiritual poverty, their own limitations and sins ... Read More
About eileen fleming
Eileen Fleming,
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
http://www.youtube.com/user/eileenfleming