March 19, 2014

Public Banking: Detroit Fights for Democracy by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Here in Detroit, you get a front row seat for industrial capitalism’s demise. The holes and cracks in the roads, the water lines leaking into ice […]
May 26, 2014

Battle Over Banking: A Public Bank for the Republic of Vermont by Jim Hogue

This article was first published in Green Mountain Noise, 2VR’s E-zine publication Introduction In 1694, British Financiers formed the Bank of England and changed the world. […]
May 30, 2014

Daze of Future Past: X Men, Again

Are we humans destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change our fate? Is the future […]
May 30, 2014

Toward a Human-Scale Democracy in America by Frank Bryan (FEATURE)

This article was first published in Green Mountain Noise, 2VR’s E-zine publication Question: Does the American National Government work? Answer: Yes. It was designed not to work […]
July 3, 2014

Fight for the Light: Shadows of Liberty

I had the good fortune to attend a recent screening of SHADOWS OF LIBERTY at the Peace and Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont. This new documentary […]
November 21, 2014

Are You Listening, Vermont? Bank of North Dakota (BND) Outperforms Wall Street, by Ellen Brown (BANKING)

While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new […]
December 1, 2015

Banking on Vermont’s Future: An Interview with Gwen Hallsmith

Read our entire interview with Vermont public banking advocate Gwen Hallsmith in our 2015 issue of “Green Mountain Noise.” Available right here at our web site. […]
December 22, 2015

Vermont, Cannabis, and “Exceptionalism,” by Eli Harrington (OP/ED)

  Publisher’s note: Read the Vermont Cannabis Collaborative (VTCC)’s entire “What Cannabis Can Do For Vermont” report – legalize, regulate, tax, derive benefits – online at their web […]
January 11, 2016

Reinventing Banking, by Ellen Brown

Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news […]
January 19, 2016

Unprecedented Global Wealth Disparity, by Stephen Lendman

Ahead of wealthy and powerful financial and political elites meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam released a report, titled “An Economy for the 1%,” […]