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One blog leads to another...

 Gotta love this Web 2.0 world while it lasts.

Archdruid John Michael Greer's post today takes thoughtful issue with our newest RSS provider, Sharon at "Casaubon's Book."

I know what some of you are thinking.

Archdruid? 

Read more and decide for yourself re: the wisdom he offers.

Free Vermont! 

Dispatches from the Fronts

1. Associated Press, February 16, 2008. By William J. Kole

Sean Connery thinks a Scottish
nation is a bonnie notion.

How about Spain’s Basque country becoming a
real country?

And what’s wrong with a People’s Republic of
Vermont?

Kosovo’s looming
independence raises all those questions and more. For starters: why is
statehood okay for some people but frowned on for others? After
all, isn’t the right to self-determination the essence of democracy
itself?

The following article discusses a work of fiction, The Shell Game.
The article presents the case made by author Steve Alten, and some
experts on international affairs, that the government of the United
States is planning a false flag attack on American soil. This attack is
to be blamed on Iran, and would be used as an excuse to impose martial
law and to attack Iran in order to take out the last remaining hurdle
to the successful completion of the Project for a New American Century.
The term “false flag” is a both a common term, and a specific term of

To reference and adapt Barbara Kingsolver's newest book on localvore living...

Animal.

Vegetable.

Pants.

Or underpants.

In her letter to the Editor in this issue of Vermont Commons, Lisa
Nash makes a number of sensible arguments regarding Vermonters and
Americans, Vermont and empire, and the general readiness of Vermonters
to embrace their own independence. In particular I was struck by Ms.
Nash’s assertion that “Vermonters, like most Americans, are far from
coming to terms with the reality that the U.S. is an empire.”

(In our “Mud Season” issue, published in March 2008, Vermont Commons presented Part I of
Kirkpatrick Sales’ “Dispersion” column – “You Know Your Empire Is
Collapsing When…” Sales wrote, “Empires usually make the same set of
mistakes,” and observed from his historical reading that there were
four basic reasons that empires collapse. First was environmental
degradation (examples, Sumeria and the Roman Empire). Harvard
biologist E.O. Wilson has written of the U.S. that its “ecological
footprint is already too large for the planet to sustain.” Second was

What follows is an edited interview based on a series of email
conversations between Vermont Commons editor Rob Williams and Heidi
Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, conducted during late
winter, 2008. Both parties agreed on the final transcript.

According to economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, each
American houseold is spending approximately $100 per month toward the
current operating costs of the Iraq War.

Read more about their book The Three Trillion Dollar War here.

Happy Tax Day - might be a good time to consider joining S.E.C.E.D.E.

Dear Vermont Commons Editor,

As April 15th approaches and the populace sends
its tribute to the Emperor, here's a theater piece
that I'd like to see:

I'd like to see a stage full of lawyers debating
whether or not this political construct called the
United States of America actually exists any more.
I'm willing to bet that there is not one lawyer
anywhere on the planet that could successfully
argue that the political construct which the
Founding Fathers envisioned and which the