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Americans Rediscover the Right of Self-Determination 26 Nov 2012 | 02:52 am
After a hiatus of nearly 150 years following the Civil War, over a million Americans have recently rediscovered the word secession, one of the most toxic, politically incorrect words in American Engli...
The Eerie Silence of American Lawyers, Clergy, and Academics in Response to Empire 15 Nov 2012 | 01:48 am
At the height of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements back in the late 1960s, the political activism of three professional groups contributed significantly to the success of the two movemen...
The Vermont COOP 15 Nov 2012 | 01:13 am
Mission: The Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence COOP provides an organizational news model that is transparent and equitable, one that balances crowdsourcing of actions, access to leadership posi...
The Kairos Radical Imperative 12 Nov 2012 | 08:17 am
Kairos: A Greek word for a very special time fraught with decisive consequences for good or evil when momentous things are happening, new possibilities arise, more degrees of freedom emerge, and the o...
Christianity and Nationhood 7 Nov 2012 | 10:26 pm
As I watched all the muscle flexing and prideful posturing of both candidates for President during the debates, a quote from one of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s sermons came to mind: “God’s victory means our...
Obamaland: Vision Free, But Very Cool 7 Nov 2012 | 09:56 pm
How was it possible for President Barack Obama to have accomplished so little in four years and to have completely betrayed the liberal political base of the Democratic Party and yet still defeat Repu...
Nine Years of SVR 2 Nov 2012 | 05:33 am
EVENTS October 11, 2003 – SVR holds first statewide meeting at Bread & Puppet Theater in Glover, VT. June 19, 2004 – Parade in downtown Montpelier with Bread & Puppet followed by State House rally att...
A New Vision of the Future for SVR 1 Nov 2012 | 02:40 am
Over the past nine years SVR has evolved beyond the stage of simply wanting to free Vermont from the clutches of an immoral, unsustainable, ungovernable, unfixable empire. It now views itself in a mu...
What Is Iran’s Geopolitical Model? 31 Oct 2012 | 09:16 pm
The demonization of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the White House, the State Department, Bibi Netanyahu, AIPAC, and the American media reminds me of the vilification of blacks and Dr. ...
A New Niche for the Moribund Non-Aligned Movement 31 Oct 2012 | 08:27 pm
As Secretary-General of the fifty year old Non-Aligned Movement, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be in a unique position to inject new life into the moribund 120-member organization by posit...