Thanks to independent journalist Christopher Ketcham and the Huffington Post for this article about our emerging independence movement here in the once and future republic of Vermont. Free Vermont! Long live the UNtied States. [img_assist|nid=3143|title=Dennis Steele and young Vermonter at the Warren 4th Parade.|desc=|link=node|align=center|width=640|height=464]   --- snip --- Vermont Revolutionaries and the Rise of a Green Tea Party by Christopher Ketcham The most radical antiwar candidate in the US is not Dennis Kucinich or Rand or Ron Paul or any of the usual suspects. It's a 42-year-old Vermonter named Dennis Steele, who is running for governor of his state as an open secessionist. From what I can tell, Steele is just an...

Director Christopher Nolan has served up some of the most compelling mainstream movies of our time, from the brilliant and unique "Memento," to the under-appreciated "Insomnia," to the acclaimed "Dark Knight," easily the best Batman movie ever made. Now he's helmed "Inception," the most talked-about film of this summer, billed as a sort of "James Bond meets Matrix" thriller which, at first blush, seems a complex "dream within a dream" narrative worthy of Nolan's time and talent. There is much that should impress in Nolan's film. A huge cast, including Leo  DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, and Cillian Murphy. Epic sets  and a global backdrop - Asia, Europe, the Americas. A complex idea -  the theft of dreams, and the implications of...

Paul Starobin is the author of the newly published "Five Roads to the Future: Power in the Next Global Age" (Penguin) and a staff correspondent for the National Journal and a contributing editor to the Atlantic. His last book, After America, painted a convincing picture of a 21st century world in which economic and political power devolved away from Empire and towards smaller nations, states, and republics. Read his whole July 3 editorial on DEVOLUTION/NONVIOLENT SECESSION here, and below. Starobin notes that secession is not a RIGHT or LEFT wing thing, but transcends RED and BLUE states, an important observation we've been making here for years. "It is not as if the right has a lock on this issue," Starobin writes. "Vermont, the seat...

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