January 29, 2016

The Populist Revolution: Bernie and Beyond, by Ellen Brown

  The world is undergoing a populist revival. From the revolt against austerity led by the Syriza Party in Greece and the Podemos Party in Spain, […]
January 31, 2016

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Boondoggle, by Stephen Lendman

Publisher’s note: The Pentagon plans to station the first fleet of working (?) F-35s, the most expansive U.S. military boondoggle in history, at Burlington International Airport […]
April 4, 2016

What The Frack, Vermont? Rising Tide VT Continues Stalwart Pipeline Opposition

BURLINGTON – Anna Rose of Rising Tide VT is perched on a table next to an LCD projector in the meeting space of the Vermont Workers’ […]
April 6, 2016

Dam It, Vermont! Should We Buy TransCanada’s 13 Hydro Dams?

Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks, flanked by (l-r) House Speaker Shap Smith, Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell and Secretary of Administration Justin Johnson. Gov. Peter Shumlin […]
April 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders’ “Pie In The Sky” Platform? Nonsense.

Does Bernie Sanders’s economic program amount to pie-in-the-sky nonsense? The short answer is no. All of his major proposals are grounded in solid economic reasoning and […]
April 13, 2016

“Shwag Bag Of Doom” – Welcome to “Cluster Fuck Nation.”

Publisher’s note: We’ve channeled JH Kunstler since our first issue of Vermont Commons back in 2005. “The problems facing the U.S. of Empire,” he notes here, […]
April 13, 2016

1%FTP: Meet the Vermont-Based Global Network 1% For The Planet

Today, not only are more and more individuals focusing their efforts on environmental issues, but whole universities, cities, and businesses are also beginning to work toward […]
April 14, 2016

Stripped and Flipped: 2016 U.S. Imperial “Election” Realities

Disturbing signs of the time-tested “Strip and Flip” strategy for stealing elections have already surfaced in 2016. Will they ultimately decide the outcome, as they have […]
April 18, 2016

Net Metering for a Post-Utility Age? Vermonters Move Towards Decentralized Energy Generation

As a Vermont Electric Co-op (VEC) member, I found CEO Christine Hallquist’s recent commentary “Pricing Renewable Energy” as disappointing as it is intentionally misleading. We know […]
April 20, 2016

EB-5 Blows Up in the NEK: A “Dark Day” For Vermont

Publisher’s Note: The saddest element of this scandal-ridden story is that Stenger and his corrupt cronies may have tanked future EB-5 opportunities here in the Green […]