Now that our own Vermont (Junior) Senator Bernie Sanders has thrown his hat into the proverbial presidential ring, we feel obligated to remind our Green Mountain neighbors and the larger world that Bernie’s “populism” rings hollow on a number of questions and issues at the core of U.S. imperial hegemony, both at home and abroad. In that spirit, we are reposting Second Vermont Republic co-founder Thomas Naylor’s analysis of Sanders and his faux-populist politics from Counterpunch – dated 2011. Free Vermont!