Voting is for suckers.

Kick the habit.

Get clean.

The world around you will look very different once you are no longer addicted to ersatz democracy.

Ron Paul is the only candidate in that pool of lunatics and flip-floppers that comes
close to making sense and that’s why he doesn’t stand a chance.  His position of
keeping our noses out of foreign countries is seen as “isolationism”, a term
employed when you can’t adequately refute his non-interventionist stance; it’s
similar to his being smeared with the “antisemitic” label because he dares to
question why we’re joined at the hip with the Israelis.  It’s the oldest of tactics, if
you can’t refute his positions, attack his character.  Paul also opposes the various
illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars we’re engaged in.  The top three
candidates are stripping all over each other in a frenzied race to kiss the Israelis’
asses and thereby ensure the jewish vote.  It’s a sorry state of affairs when in
order to secure the presidency, one has to suck up to a foreign power.  Wonder
what the founding fathers would say about this shameful behavior?

The corporate party’s impatient Republicans eagerly want the bombing to begin now, before the election.

The corporate party’s patient Democrats cleverly want their weaponized economic sanctions to first lay siege upon the targeted state of Iran, to collectively punish its people and degrade its defenses, before bombing it after the election.

Terrorist Production for Bomb Destruction:

http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=488&Itemid=49

Jill Stein for President:

http://www.jillstein.org

I didn’t read this article. I don’t see any point. I am just waiting for Hedges column to appear, though maybe if it takes long enough I will read it after all.

I believe, in the end Mitt Romney’s position will be identical to Obama’s in regards to Iran.

And…

@ Heterochromatic

The new chief of the IAEA was for all intents and purposes a political appointee determined as friendly to the US “interests” regarding this very issue (see Seymour Hersh).

Love you man. Don’t let the haters get you down buddy. These things take time.

Art Tatum - “Boots And Saddle”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz0fdRpECy4

Please be advised:

1.  I HAVE written to the editors of the site with my complaints and suggestion for improving this site, now dangerously close to being indistinguishable from all the other plastic lefty sites—most of which are subsidized by the gringo government as safety valves for discountent.

2.  I have never been banned from this site for any reason, and ardee’s chickenshit libel is simply that.

3.  There are some very bad elements posting on this site—and I suppose that they represent the majority of hateful gringos, otherwise gringo foreign and domestic policy would not be one of genocide against non-whites for their resources.

since the government’s operations are in such a massive mess…

it’s gonna take a major overhaul of the whole system…

as that mess is what needs to be corrected…

and to correct any mess means to be rid of the mess…

and the best tools we got are we-the-people as a whole!...

and as far as the most viable major individual tool in this presidential election goes…

the best tool this’un sees is ron paul!...

...

hence this ex-forty-year-democrat who later became a no-party-affiliation…

is now registered republican in order to vote for the ron paul in the primary!...

Thanks, Ardee.  Short, sweet, and true.

Robinson’s fundamental cluelessness is right there in the first paragraph:

“a vote for the Republican presidential candidate this fall will be a vote for war with Iran.”

This, when the Democratic nominee and current incumbent has just been issuing open, escalating threats against Iran - threats that are war crimes in themselves.

In other words, you will not be able to vote for a 2-Party candidate without voting for a warmonger.  Some peaceniks are actually registering Republican in order to vote for Ron Paul in the primary.

You will, however, have a chance to vote for a peace candidate:  Dr. Jill Stein, the likely Green Party candidate.

Of course, in a lot of states, including Oregon, you need to do some work to make sure she’s on your ballot.  In Oregon, we need Pacific Green Party registrations to stay on the ballot.  The requirements vary from state to state, if you aren’t part of the duopoly.

We’ve all got some work to do - and Robinson is trying to cover that up.

http://www.blixassociates.com/

For the real positions on Iran’s “nuclear threat”. Of course one could simply take genderconfusedchromatic’s opinion…..err GRYM’s.

y moonraven, March 9 at 11:13 am Link to this comment

I am very close to terminating my time with this site.

Oh please, do so immediately!

By gerard, March 9 at 1:49 pm Link to this comment

moonraven:  I hope you have written directly to the editors of Truthdig. The site could be improved by helpful specific suggestions.

Which, coming from one who has been banned in the past for posting blatant bigotry, and quite probably will be again, will certainly be given the (lack of) weight it deserves.

A.) All U.S. intelligence gathering organizations agree that Iran stopped pursuing
development of nuclear weapons in 2004.———

and they agree with the IAEA that the weapons program has restarted.

moonraven:  I hope you have written directly to the editors of Truthdig. The site could be improved by helpful specific suggestions.

But Obama has made his intentions very clear, especially with developing
bunker busting bombs specifically for Iran and turning some over to Israel. 

What do his sanctions that withhold grain and threaten the Iranians with
hunger have to do with Iran developing a nuclear weapon, a scenario that his
staff has admitted as not even been decided yet?  They’re clearly a form of
warfare against the people of Iran and its government.  If that was imposed on
Americans by an outside country, it would clearly be called and acted upon as
an act of war. 

“In his recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, [5] given in
advance of President Obama’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee speech,
the president, inter alia, was questioned about Syria. His response was very
clear:
GOLDBERG: Can you just talk about Syria as a strategic issue? Talk about it as a
humanitarian issue, as well; but it would seem to me that one way to weaken
and further isolate Iran is to remove or help remove Iran’s only Arab ally.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Absolutely.
Do these Western interventionist proselytizers really believe that the onslaught
on Syria is only about democracy and reform? Obama said it plainly. It was
always about Iran.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NC09Ak03.html

And if Obama has a Republican successor, especially Romney, why should we
assume his more covert methods of waging war would be abandoned when
they’ve been so successful in gaining acceptance?

Another piece on truthdig that is a fart in a whirlwind.

Where’s the beef, truthdig editors?

I am very close to terminating my time with this site.

How can any journalist—any person with a grain of sense, even—write an entire article on the nuclear weapons double-bind without even mentioning that if “we” don’t want “them” to have nuclear weapons, the least we can do to start with, is to offer to get rid of our own and work ceaselessly for a nuclear-free world.
  It is not that people never think to make the offer. It’s that they spend much time and great effort to avoid thinking about it. So long as that is the case, the problem will remain unsolved. As soon as that is not the case, the problem will begin to be solved.
  Like every other problem, the answer lies within our range of possibilities as “the strongest, biggest, richest country in the world etc. etc.
(Not strong enough to do the right thing. Not rich enough in spirit to do the right thing. Not smart enough, either.

The Big Business Elites will allow Obama to serve
another term. He’s been carrying out their orders and
they’ll make sure he wins the race. If they didn’t want
him to win they’d be running Jeb.

Too late, Balkas; I already did, on Super Tuesday—and I don’t regret it at all!  :-D

Let’s not kid ourselves, Ron Paul would be a helpless old boob that would be powerless to reign in the MIC.

Ron Paul and his ilk make GW look like Copernicus.

ron paul represents the one percent in many aspects of daily living. he’s
anti-equality, anti-healthcare for all, anti higher education for all those who
want to obtain it, anti some women’s rights, etc.
and since blacks would continue to have under paul by far less of these
rights than sephardo-ashekenazic peoples and anglosaxons, EG probably
detests very name of ron paul.
and so would i if i were a latino, black, and an indigene.
so, please, don’t vote for ron paul; much better for ALL americans appear
stein or anderson. thanks

This article started with a joke, a backdoor endorsement of Romney operative Ron Paul.

In the 19th century “Economic Sanctions” were called blockades and considered an act of war, add to that targeted assassinations inside a sovereign nation, and overflight by spy drones and the situation could only be described as war.  The question isn’t which party or candidate will go to war with Iran, the question is the speed with which the war will be expanded.

the piece is overly gossipy. we all know who’s gonna win the election ‘12: the one percent.
and it’d make a hoot of diff if obama, paul, romney, anderson, or stein wins it.
whoever get’s the presidency, MUST swear an oath of allegiance/total obedience to the ONE
PERCENT, or else.
those who own america, manage america—and no amount of evolution or revolution will
change this fact.
cutting down on one percent’s ownership of america is the only way to go; and the only way
to accomplish that is to establish political party that aims to do just that.
perhaps, justice party and the greens might be a vehicle for change.
one could then try one of them before establishing another party. thanks

It is the “Military-Industrial Complex” that President Eisenhower warned us about. 
They are the ones pushing it, for their own reasons.

Amazing; Robinson finally acknowledges that Ron Paul even exists, much less is running for president!

The whole Iran thing is being used more as a talking point to get Obama out of office for being “soft” than anything else.  AIPAC, Bibi and the Repubs are using the same dangerous strategy here, but my hopeful prediction is that Iran, as well as Syria, are going to be the first in a new era of US foreign policy, one in which we are so bankrupt and weary of war that our usual strategy of “invade first, ask questions later” no longer works, publicly or politically.

Get a grip, Eugene.  A.) All U.S. intelligence gathering organizations agree that Iran stopped pursuing development of nuclear weapons in 2004.  B.) There will be war with Iran even if Obama is elected.  He’s just trying to prevent it from breaking out before November, or saving it for an October surprise.  How do you corporate-paid shills continue to pass this partisan propagandizing off as journalism?

While no one here is privy to conversations behind the scenes I would think that Obama’s public pronouncements and his unwavering support for both Israel and its equally bloody leader, Netanyahu, would lead one to see this article of Robinson’s as yet another silly partisan fluff piece.