Vermont Yankee Radioactive Plume

This week, Peter Shumlin, President Pro Tem of the Vermont State Senate, announced that the Senate will vote on whether Vermont Yankee should be closed on schedule.

The first vote will be this week and the final vote will be next week! After years of work by thousands of Vermonters, this is it!

Click here to send a message to your Senator.

Journalist Christopher Ketcham writes about our 2010 Vermont independence campaign for state offices in this January 31, 2010 TIME magazine article.

Free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States.

Welcome to the first group of 2010 Vermont independence candidates.

Here are the speeches of five of them, from our January 15, 2010 press conference in the state capital of Montpelier, Vermont.

Free Vermont! Long live the UNtied States!

Slate.com feature writer Josh Levin tackles Vermont independence in this essay.

"Pipeline deal is sweet music for Iran," By M K Bhadrakumar [EXCERPTS]

....a galaxy of European statesmen gathered under chandeliers in the banquet hall of the newly built Rixos Hotel in Ankara, Turkey, to sign an inter-governmental agreement formally launching the Nabucco project. United States President Barack Obama's special envoy on Eurasian energy issues, Richard Morningstar, was in attendance at the ceremony, affirming

For close-up photos of the coin minted in Belgium, click here.

Medvedev Unveils “World Currency” Coin At G8

In a highly symbolic moment at the G8 summit in Italy today, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled to reporters a coin representing a “united future world currency”....Geithner sought to please the elitist CFR by assuring them that he was “open” to the notion of a new global currency system....Pope Benedict called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy.

For full article, click here.

WRKO Boston radio personality Howie Carr talks with Thomas Naylor about Vermont independence.

For the record - we'll continue to support the Red Sox after we leave the Empire.

Go Sox, and thanks for the airtime, Mr. Carr.

The thinking about debt ("credit"), savings, and investment has become so distorted that one must deconstruct statements carefully to realize how absurd they are. One blatant example is the recent talk about funding the future decommissioning of nuclear plants around the country by waiting (decades) for investments of the funds to gain in value.

And Mr. Beck seems surprisingly lucid and thoughtful this evening.

Here's a transcript of the conversation.

And here's what missing from the discussion:

1. The United States is no longer a republic, but an Empire, run by multinationals and unaccountable to its own citizens. The Empire is unreformable, unfixable.