December 6, 2013

Putting Planes Before People

Nearly 500 people marched into the Burlington, Vt., City Council meeting on October 28 to testify for or against the basing of the boondoggle F-35 warplane at […]
December 9, 2013

New World Order: The Endgame Has Begun

Let me issue and control a nation‘s money and I care not who writes the laws. – Amschel Rothschild Perhaps the single most important thing to […]
December 10, 2013

Remembering Bill Coperthwaite

By Peter Forbes William S. Coperthwaite (1930-2013), architect, author, maker, visionary social critic, and homesteader, has died.  My own family has lost both our sail and our […]
December 18, 2013

Vilaseca Channels Orwell

By Susan Ohanian Recent statements by Vermont Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca contradict teacher testimony to the Vermont State Board of Education. In a letter to the […]
December 30, 2013

Do BOA and Wells Fargo Run Vermont’s Capitol City?

By William Boardman “To repeat myself ad nauseum, I still don’t see how our city’s chief economic development officer can hold and promote views that are […]
January 8, 2014

Forecast 2014: Burning Down the House by James Howard Kunstler

Many of us in the Long Emergency crowd and like-minded brother-and-sisterhoods remain perplexed by the amazing stasis in our national life, despite the gathering tsunami of […]
January 8, 2014

Enemies foreign and domestic by Mike Krauss

The Declaration that went out from Philadelphia to the world in 1776 proclaimed a government of the people, and that the purpose of American government is […]
January 8, 2014

PBS Covers Up US Radiation Experiments by William Boardman

When the military scientists of an advanced technological nation deliberately explode their largest nuclear bomb (and 66 others) over Pacific islands and use the opportunities to […]
January 16, 2014

Catching Lightning In a Bottle

Like many other thinking citizens these days, I am fond of demonizing Wall Street. After all, Wall Street deserves demonizing, given the extraordinary corruption, excess and […]
January 21, 2014

WTC Tower 7: An Attack from Within by Vidda Crochetta

At 5pm on September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Towers 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 were damaged but still standing. Nevertheless, earlier that morning the […]