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"Imagine peace. Secure civil liberties. Family farms. Healthy communities in which each person matters. The flourishing of local arts, music, and letters. Political, cultural, and economic decisions made by neighbors rather than distant rulers. Independence. That’s the inspiriting vision of these Vermonters. Read them, engage them, argue with them. You just might remember–or learn–what participatory democracy is all about."
So writes Bill Kauffman of our new book MOST LIKELY TO...
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Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds. ...
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Dr. Chellis Glendinning is one of the West’s most provocative and original thinkers, writers, and do’ers. Her book Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy, is an intimate exploration of the U.S. of Empire.
After reading our new book MOST LIKELY TO SECEDE, she wrote us from Bolivia:
“Steeped in Jeffersonian decentralism, pro-democracy sentiment, and love of land, the mad farmers, sheep growers, and legal philosophers of Vermont...
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By Paul Fleckenstein and James Marc Leas
Faced with snowballing criticism of the F-35 program as the most expensive, wasteful, and ineffective weapons system in history, “The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built,” Time magazine, Feb. 25, 2013, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, dropped three bombshells in a widely circulated letter to constituent Christopher Hurd...
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by Ken White
It’s a fascinating thought experiment, and for many of the Vermonters whose essays are collected in Most Likely to Secede, it’s a viable and urgent project: Why, how, and with what beneficial impact could Vermont secede from the United States, and become a radically local, largely self-sustaining democracy?
This book consists mainly of essays from the Vermont Commons, the newsletter where secession is debated and post-separation arrangements proposed. And although the editors admirably did not produce Most Likely to Secede with the intent to “convert readers to the...
What Is It Called When You Outsource Your Autonomy?
So it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact [1]statement[1] issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That’s the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed no matter what and anyway, climate change wouldn’t hurt the pipeline.
And it turns out that at least one of the several oil-friendly corporate authors was apparently paid by Trans-Canada, the...
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We’ve long appreciated entrepreneur and ecological thinker Paul Hawken’s wisdom and forward-thinking leadership on economic, political and environmental issues. If you haven’t read his booksECOLOGY OF COMMERCE or BLESSED UNREST: HOW THE LARGEST MOVEMENT IN THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING, we recommend them – both are “must reads” for any 21st century citizen.
Until recently, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter had been having a pretty rough time.
If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun." --Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on private deposits in Cyprus banks.
The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. US depositors could be next . . . .
On Tuesday, March 19, the national legislature of Cyprus overwhelmingly rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a European bailout...
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