Politics
Posted: Thursday, January 4, 2007 - 11:39
Rob's Note: Lewis Lapham at his acerbic best here. I wonder when he'll take Americans' constitutional right to peaceable secession, and the resulting break-up of the U.S. Empire, as seriously as we do?
Secession is every American's birth right. The time draws nigh.
By Lewis H. Lapham
Harper's Magazine, January, 2006
http://www.harpers.org
Lewis H. Lapham is the National Correspondent for Harper's Magazine.
[A free people] has an indisputable, unalienable,
indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded
and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the
characters and conduct of their rulers. -- John
Adams
Adams had in mind the ministers of the British
crown in the reign of King George III, and
presumably he knew that the knowledge in...
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 23:01
Rob's note: Thanks to Bill Grennon for sending this along.
Read the whole story here.
December 20, 2006
North American Secessionists Confront the Empire
Divided We Stand, United We Fall
By DAVE JANSSON
On December 13, a French-language television
station in Belgium reported that the
Flemish-speaking region of Flanders had declared
its independence, spelling the end of Belgium as
a nation-state. With pictures of the King and
Queen fleeing the country and of trucks blocked
at the new border, the report appeared authentic
enough for the newspaper Le Soir to announce the
next day that "Belgium Died Last Night." As it
turns out, the report on the secession of...
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 13:39
Rob's note: From "Synthetic Terror" author Webster Tarpley on the occasion of the new Boston Tea Party in Massachusetts this coming week-end, an effort by the 9/11 Truth community to call attention to the 9/11 Whitewash, and to call for Messrs Bush and Cheney to be impeached. Mr. Tarpley's book is a most provocative read (one of more than one dozen books now challenging the official 9/11 "conspiracy theory" story with a raft of thoughtful and mostly unassailable arguments).
I think it naive to assume that impeachment, even it were to come to pass, will do much to turn the IOTA (Imperial Oil Tanker America) - Messrs. Bush and Cheney now have played out their part on the imperial stage - the U.S. government has effectively destroyed the...
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Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 21:45
The 28th Amendment
By Eugene Jarecki, director of the award-winning film "Why We Fight"
I recently spent time in Washington for a follow-up visit with one of the Senators who appears in my film WHY WE FIGHT. Security at the Russell Office Building being lighter than I expected, I found myself searching the halls for the Senator's office with time to spare.
Making my way through those corridors of power is always humbling. I wonder if I am awed more by the power accumulated within the building or by the task facing anyone hoping to reform it. I am admittedly a hopeful reformer. Each time I come to Washington, I am Mr. Smith, holding out for a happy ending to the American story. Maybe that's why in naming my new film, I borrowed the...
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Scott Ritter's “Target: Iran” Talk: So Right, And So Wrong
There are few American patriots in public life more deserving of our support and respect than Scott Ritter. A Marine Corps major, proud dyed-in-the-wool paleo-conservative republican, and former United Nations weapons inspector, Ritter has courageously spoken out against the excesses of U.S. Empire (his own phrase, one I like) since the 2000 “election” (I use the term loosely) brought the Bush “regime” (again, his word) to power.
When I heard that my Green Mountain Global Forum neighbors (thanks, Deb, Laura, Tara, Liz, and Marge!) planned to bring Scott Ritter to the Big Picture Theater to speak on his new book “Target Iran” last Saturday night, I was pleased. Here's a guy, I...
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Try and get past indy journalist Greg Palast's ad hominem attacks and focus on the meat of the matter.
HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION
by Greg Palast
for The Guardian (UK), Comment
Monday November 6, 2006
Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.
And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty...
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Posted: Monday, November 6, 2006 - 11:35
Greetings friends,
43 citizens from 16 separate secession-minded organizations from all over the United States attended this past week-end's first-ever North American secession Summit in Burlington, Vermont.
Thanks to journalist Paul Nussbaum of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" for covering the North American Secession Convention, You can read Paul's article here.
And here is the press release and the declaration that came out of the Summit.
Onward, and free Vermont -
Press Release - Monday, November 6, 2006
Vermont contact: Dr. Rob Williams
info@vermontrepublic.org / 802.279.3364 (mobile)
FIRST-EVER NORTH...
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 22:46
Empire's Fall: Walking Towards A New Vermont
Five years ago this past September, key members of the U.S. intelligence and political elite successfully orchestrated the most powerful “false flag” operation in modern world history. Nineteen Arab “terrorists” – individuals trained, funded, and armed from within the United States empire's own largely secretive intelligence networks – took the blame for the World Trade Center towers' collapse and the deaths of more than 3,000 individuals. The subsequent “shock and awe” engendered by the 9/11 attacks has generated a whole host of consequences, including the launching of a “war on terror” with no end and the curtailing of civil liberties here at home, and the militant expansion of the U.S....
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 22:44
Peak Oil “Powerdown” – A Conversation With Richard Heinberg
Interview conducted by Vermont Commons editor Rob Williams
Q. You've just written a new book called “The Oil Depletion Protocol.” How does it differ from your previous two books about global Peak Oil?
A. In THE PARTY'S OVER, I outlined the problem (Peak Oil); in POWERDOWN, I explored our options and concluded that our best course of action would be a combination of two strategies--Powerdown (cooperative voluntary reduction in resource consumption) and Building Lifeboats (preservationist communities to weather the storm ahead). In THE OIL DEPLETION PROTOCOL, I outline the most basic agreement or accord that will be needed in order to implement a global Powerdown. The Protocol is...
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 22:39
Secede To Succeed:
An Address Given
At the October 28, 2005 Vermont Statewide Secession Convention
By Jane Dwinell
Who here loves Vermont?
Who thinks Vermont is a special place?
How many of you are residents of Vermont?
How many of you were born here?
How many of you have ancestors who go back several generations?
My heritage runs deep in this place, this city, this building.
I walked past here every day of my high school career, pausing more often than not to admire Ceres on top of the golden dome. My ancestor, Dwight Dwinell, carved that very lovely statue, the symbol of our agricultural richness.
And my great-grandfather sat in these chambers, elected by the men who knew him well in Randolph in 1904. Farmer, and Grange...
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