March 10, 2014

VT Votes Yes on Public Banks by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

“If a Vermont Public Bank is organic, grass-fed, and pesticide-free, then I say we should all support it!”  Charlie Hosford, former longtime Waitsfield Select Board member […]
March 10, 2014

Make Vermont National Guard a Civilian Force

The recent call to cut military forces, though specious as our war plans expand, raises the question of whether we should have dual-use forces. Vermonters may […]
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 […]
March 21, 2014

Fukushima and Crimea: Crisis Mis-Management 101 By William Boardman

There are those who say that the idiots running Western and allied governments (the “civilized” countries) are pitching the world toward a pair disasters, the full […]
March 25, 2014

NWO endgame reconsidered by Richard Moore

In the article, New World Order – The endgame has begun I argued that world government is going to be achieved by relatively peaceful means. Obama’s […]
March 25, 2014

No Constitutional Amendment Needed to Overturn Citizens United

While fund-raising public interest organizations have been beating drums for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, no constitutional amendment is needed because the Constitution already […]
March 27, 2014

COLD WEATHER, HARD STATE by Peter Miller

Cold penetrates my neck, creeps down my backbone, seeps into my limbs…cold…I am cold…my arms …fingers…toes. Thirty days of below zero weather since December, not counting […]
April 11, 2014

Obama Faces Another “Dumb War” Over Crimea by William Boardman

“I don’t oppose all wars…. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war. “What I am opposed to is a rash war. “What I am […]
April 11, 2014

Liberate Hawai’i

  As 21st century Vermonters continue to explore independence for our once and future republic, it behooves us to remember and dialogue with other independence movements […]
April 11, 2014

Dignity vs. Predation: The CCTA Strike by C. W. Norris-Brown

On March 17, 2014, CCTA drivers with their union Teamsters Local 597 went on strike. It ended April 4 when they went back to work. The […]