Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Obama Trumps AIPAC, Romney, Republicans With Yet More Iranian Sanctions

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Obama Trumps AIPAC, Romney, Republicans With Yet More Iranian Sanctions

Click here to access article by Franklin Lamb from Counter Currents.

If you want to see a sickening, but probably realistic, version of “American democracy at work”, you should read this.

According to the Obama Presidential campaign issues staff, temporarily operating out of the Democratic National Committee HQ at 430 South Capitol Street, SE in Washington DC, Team Obama scored an electoral coup again rival Mitt Romney this week by moving fast to pull the rug from Romney’s hoped for advantage from his obsequious Israel trip. That visit, which ranks among the all-time most groveling led to even Zionist media outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post dissing Mitt’s trip as “un-presidential.”

I think that these very friendly-to-Israel media outlets were repelled because Romney was too obvious about his obeisance to Zionist interests. To be "presidential", one must be more deceptive, as is Obama.