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		<title>The Liberation of America From Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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It will not make one whit of difference who is elected president in November, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.  Either way, it will be business as usual.  Both the silver-tongued, Nobel Peace Laureate, drone aficionado and the mean-spirited, Harvard MBA, venture capitalist shark are unwavering in their commitment to war, Wall Street, Corporate America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert Camus: Life is Absurd, Rebél, Live, and Try To Die Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
When I first read Albert Camus’s The Stranger as a college student in 1957, it went right over my head.  I was clueless as to what this book was about.  When I re-visited it twenty-five years later, I was so taken by Camus that I soon read everything that he had written which had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Is No Longer Any Moral Justification for the American Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the fact that the United States is the largest, wealthiest, most-powerful, most materialistic, most environmentally irresponsible, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire in history and has shown little or no concern for the distribution of income, wealth, or political power among its citizens, nine years of trying to convince skeptical Vermonters of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are You, and You Are Us: The Absurdity of U.S. &#8211; Israeli Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are you, and you are us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrogantly proclaimed to President Barack Obama in the White House recently.
How is it possible that Israel, a tiny country with only eight million people, can have so much influence over the foreign policy of the most powerful empire of all-time?  Yet Israel played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street Revisited: Who Is Being Occupied By Whom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the very outset I was an enthusiastic supporter of Occupy Wall Street. To me it represented the reawakening of the political left after four decades of uninterrupted slumber.  Maybe the radicalization of America had finally begun.  Americans might soon opt for jobs, health insurance, social security, better education, and a cleaner environment rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street and the Peaceful Dissolution of the American Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the very outset when Occupation Wall Street was first launched on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan it attracted a very diverse set of participants with an equally diverse portfolio of concerns including income inequality, poverty, greed, unemployment, mortgage foreclosures, student debt, health care, environmental degradation, racism, sexism, corruption, violence, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The EU Plays the China Card: A Nonzero-Sum, N-Country Chess Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who could have imagined back in 2002, when the euro first began circulating, that ten years later, in an act of near desperation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, would travel to Beijing, hat in hand, to seek bailout funds from Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to keep the euro afloat?  But that is exactly what happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy World Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ross Jackson is an interesting guy who has just published a very interesting and timely book entitled Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform (Chelsea Green, 2012).  Born a Canadian, Jackson has a PhD in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, but has lived in Denmark since 1964.  Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fix Is In: Israel Plans to Attack Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 2012, cover-story by Ronen Bergman entitled &#8220;Will Israel Attack Iran?&#8221; was little short of an official communiqué from the Israeli government to the American people of its intention to attack Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites in 2012. Bergman, an Israeli journalist, interviewed &#8220;many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last: Someone Who Understands America Has Failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirkpatrick Sale
Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
Morris Berman
Wiley. 2011
 
Why America Failed, which this book is not about, is nonetheless a devastating and eviscerating critique proving convincingly that America has failed, and abominably, even tragically.  That makes it a very important book that I hope will find an attentive audience, particularly among those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why America Failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the publication of his courageous new book, Why America Failed (John Wiley, 2012), Morris Berman has become one of the very first well-known, left-wing writers to acknowledge that not only is the American Empire in decline, but that it is completely unfixable.  In Berman’s view there will be no rabbit pulled out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The University of Vermont&#8217;s Culture of Violence</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-university-of-vermonts-culture-of-violence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you could rape someone, who would it be?&#8221;  That was the question which appeared on a survey circulated by members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Vermont recently which went viral on the Internet.  UVM had once again lived up to its reputation as a place where wealthy kids from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Revolutionary&#8217;s Handbook Disguised as a Book on Deep Ecology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aric McBay and Lierre Keith&#8217;s provocative new book Deep Green Resistance (Seven Stories Press, 2011) should be required reading for every Occupy Wall Street sympathizer worldwide.  Disguised as a book about global warming and the demise of life on the planet earth, this book is little short of a handbook for revolution to dismantle the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Died Today or, Maybe, Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The euro is going down and will most likely take the 17 nation euro zone with it, if not the entire 27 nation European Union.  Or maybe it will be the other way around?  Does it really matter?
Having never recovered from the 2008 recession, the collapse of the euro will drive the U.S. economy deeper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Personhood:  A No Brainer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the fact that I am a strong supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I believe that two of the ideas embraced by many of its adherents, corporate personhood and political campaign finance reform, are complete no brainers which will lead the movement nowhere.
Corporate personhood refers to the fact that over the past half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Chic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I remember most about becoming a student at Columbia University in 1957 was the arrogance of the Columbia College football fight song.  “Oh, who owns New York?  Why, we own New   York.  C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A.”  A not so subtle reminder of the fact that Columbia once owned Rockefeller Center.
American exceptionalism pales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Bernie Sanders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has recently been elevated to near godlike status by the political Left in the United States.  Some of his fans have even suggested that he should challenge Barack Obama in the Democratic Presidential Primary.  The more often he is accused of being a socialist by his political enemies on the Right, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ciphers: People of the Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in the world of make-believe, a world controlled by ciphers such as Wall Street, Corporate America, the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.  These ciphers enjoy the enthusiastic support of the media, the academy, and the shamans to whom we entrust the care of body, mind, and soul.  They reside in cipherspace, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pax Obama: Drones, Seals, and Delta Force Death Squads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be that when Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama leaves office that the defining image of his presidency will have been his use of unmanned drone aircraft and military death squads to achieve the will of the Empire?
Hardly a week goes by in which we do not learn of the deaths of innocent civilians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robots of the World Unite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A specter is haunting America – the specter of technofascism.  We are enmeshed in a global system of conquest and destruction, dominance and deceit in which Wall Street, Corporate America, the Pentagon, the U.S. Government, and the Israeli lobby manipulate and control our lives through money, political power, markets, media, and technology resulting in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Debacle Debate and the Demise of the Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underlying the endless posturing, bickering, and mean-spirited name-calling associated with the recent Congressional debt ceiling debacle were three important unstated issues – size, excessive globalization, and imperial overstretch, issues which were never even mentioned during the heated Congressional debate.
First, the United States has simply become too big to govern.  Second, it has exported too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebél Against the Human Condition and Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the people of Germany doing?  Sleeping.  Their sleep is filled with nightmares and anxiety, but they are sleeping.  We have awaited their awakening for so long, yet they continue to remain stolid, stubborn, and silent as to the crimes committed in their names, as if the entire world and its own destiny had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Myths of the Vermont Political Left</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/six-myths-of-the-vermont-political-left</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In return for the support the Vermont political Left receives from the American Empire for its social agenda including abortion, gay rights, and affirmative action, the Vermont Left turns a blind eye towards the egregious behavior of Corporate America, Wall Street, and the Pentagon and provides implicit support for a foreign policy which embraces globalization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So You Say You Are Not A Secessionist</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/so-you-say-you-are-not-a-secessionist</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/so-you-say-you-are-not-a-secessionist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Then what are you going to do about the Empire?  More specifically, how will you deal with the following:
Governance

The complete loss of moral authority      of a government owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate      America, and the Israeli Lobby.
An empire which is economically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Mississippi With Love and Anger</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/farewell-to-mississippi-with-love-and-anger</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 1966, when thirty year old Norma Watkins bid farewell to her husband of ten years, her four young children, and the good life in Jackson, Mississippi, she was effectively engaging in a personal act of secession from the Magnolia State.  Not only did she say “good-bye” to days filled with tennis, bridge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Vermont Republic Mission Statement</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-second-vermont-republic-mission-statement</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-second-vermont-republic-mission-statement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SVR - Historical Documents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank committed to: (1) the peaceful breakup of meganations such as the United States, Russia, and China; (2) the political independence of breakaway states such as Quebec, Scotland, and Vermont; and (3) a strategic alliance with other small, democratic, nonviolent, affluent, socially responsible, cooperative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed, Glitz and Gluttony</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/greed-glitz-and-gluttony</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/greed-glitz-and-gluttony#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 02:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I can claim no kinship with McGill University Professor R.T. Naylor, whom I have never met, I am an admirer of his work as an economist, a historian, a criminologist, and a political journalist.  Even though he tackles very weighty problems, Thomas Naylor skillfully manages to find the humor and the irony in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Osama Bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 01:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There he was at Ground Zero in New York City, Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, basking in the glory of the cold blooded assassination of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which he had ordered a few days earlier.  It reminded me of the celebratory response of white racists in New Orleans in 1963, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii Is Not Even a Legitimate State</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/hawaii-is-not-even-a-legitimate-state</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/hawaii-is-not-even-a-legitimate-state#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 21:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the brouhaha over whether President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or not, few seem to realize, that in the eyes of many historians and legal scholars, Hawaii is not a legitimate state of the United States of America.  If the government of Hawaii had not been illegally overthrown in 1893 by the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Nation Neutrality: An Alternative to Obsessive Compulsive Military Might</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/small-nation-neutrality-an-alternative-to-obsessive-compulsive-military-might</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/small-nation-neutrality-an-alternative-to-obsessive-compulsive-military-might#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In stark contrast to the foreign policy of the United States, which is thoroughly grounded in the principles of full spectrum dominance and imperial overstretch, stands the foreign policy of four small European nations which are committed to political neutrality – Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland.  In addition to their opposition to war, these democratic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry David Thoreau: One of America&#8217;s Most Thoughtful Nonviolent Secessionists</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/henry-david-thoreau-one-of-americas-most-thoughtful-nonviolent-secessionists</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/henry-david-thoreau-one-of-americas-most-thoughtful-nonviolent-secessionists#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
 
Henry David Thoreau
&#8220;Civil Disobedience&#8221;
Henry David Thoreau, the iconoclastic, nineteenth century New England writer, has long been associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Nations&#8217; Alliance</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/small-nations-alliance</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/small-nations-alliance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objective: To encourage (1) the nonviolent breakup of meganations such as the United States, China, Russia, and India; (2) the peaceful coexistence of a community of small, sustainable, cooperative, democratic, socially responsible, egalitarian, nonviolent, ecofriendly nations; and (3) the independence of small breakaway states such as Quebec, Tibet, and Vermont.
 
Possible Initial Members:

Bhutan (Gross National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Community of Small Nations for a Sustainable Planet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/a-community-of-small-nations-for-a-sustainable-planet-2</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/a-community-of-small-nations-for-a-sustainable-planet-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
There seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery:  bigness.  Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.
Leopold Kohr
The Breakdown of Nations
 
Neither its $5.4 trillion economy, its state-of-the-art technology, nor its military-like efficiency could protect Japan from the catastrophic consequences of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Progressives Morph Into Prowar Party</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-progressives-morph-into-prowar-party</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-progressives-morph-into-prowar-party#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As evidence of Vermont’s strong anti-war stance, back in 2003 the entire Vermont Congressional Delegation voted against the resolution authorizing the war in Iraq.  Nearly eight years later, it&#8217;s hard to believe that Senator Bernie Sanders, the darling of the Left, Senator Patrick Leahy, Congressman Peter Welch, and Progressive Party Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Has Lost Its Soul</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-has-lost-its-soul</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermont-has-lost-its-soul#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my family moved to Vermont in 1993, it was due in no small part to the fact that we thought the Green Mountain state was different from most states, very different.  We perceived Vermont to be smaller, more rural, more democratic, less violent, less commercial, more egalitarian, more humane, more independent, and more radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-politics-of-nihilism</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-politics-of-nihilism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Life is absurd said French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre back in the 1950s.  But surely there is no more appropriate description of life in the American Empire sixty years later.  Our lives are meaningless.  As psychiatrist M. Scott Peck presciently observed, we are ruled by &#8220;people of the lie.&#8221;  We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artistry in Revolution</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/artistry-in-revolution</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/artistry-in-revolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You can say you want a revolution,” sang John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “Well, you know we all want to change the world.”
What America needs is neither a tea party movement, a tenth amendment movement, a nullification movement, nor a secession movement but rather a peaceful revolution.
Unfortunately, the premise underlying the tea party, tenth amendment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Eulogy for the First Vermont Republic    4 March 1791</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/a-eulogy-for-the-first-vermont-republic-4-march-1791#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, it is my solemn duty to inform you that on 4  March 1791 the First Vermont Republic, the only American republic which truly invented itself, entered immortality and became the fourteenth state of the American empire.  Fourteen years after declaring its independence, Vermont was seduced into the union by the promise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F-35s, Drone Aircraft, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and UVM Honorary Degrees</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/f-35s-drone-aircraft-weapons-of-mass-destruction-and-uvm-honorary-degrees</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/f-35s-drone-aircraft-weapons-of-mass-destruction-and-uvm-honorary-degrees#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Vermonters were shocked to learn a few weeks ago that Progressive Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss had signed a letter of agreement with mega military contractor Lockheed Martin calling for the development of a so-called &#8220;Carbon War Room&#8221; in Burlington to create market based solutions to climate change problems.  What they did not realize was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Violence in America</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-politics-of-violence-in-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Although I am no fan of either Sarah Palin or the Tea Party crowd, blaming them for the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson is patently absurd.  Equally problematic is the idea that the Tucson massacre was caused by the uncivil nature of public discourse in the United States.  The attack on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of the House of Zeus:  Metaphor for America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Boston Globe writer Curtis Wilkie’s new book The Fall of the House of Zeus (Crown 2010) is ostensibly about the rise and ruin of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most powerful and most successful trial lawyer in America.  Scruggs, the brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, made a fortune in Mississippi by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition:  Our Options</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-human-condition-our-options#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day comes when, because we have been inflexible, nothing amazes us anymore, everything is known, and our life is spent in starting again.  It is a time of exile, dry lives, dead souls.  To come back to life, we need grace, a homeland, or to forget ourselves.  On certain mornings, as we turn a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition, American Nihilism, and the Absurd</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-human-condition-american-nihilism-and-the-absurd</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-human-condition-american-nihilism-and-the-absurd#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
How is it possible that the vast majority of Americans remain unconditionally committed to the American Empire even though it rests firmly on a foundation based on money, power, speed, greed, gluttony, sprawl, size, class inequality, racial injustice, environmental trauma, and violence without end?  Although millions of Americans distance themselves from many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Rebels &#8211; Albert Camus and Jesus Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I am leading a rebellion.
Jesus Christ
Matthew 26:55
 
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity.  It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. That revolt is the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it.
Albert Camus
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Boutique Political Activism</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermonts-boutique-political-activism</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/vermonts-boutique-political-activism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
There was a time not so long ago when Vermont was considered to be the most radical state in the Union – but not anymore.  For example, when Ronald Reagan was president back in the 80s, over 180 Vermont towns passed nuclear-freeze resolutions in their town meetings.  Fifty towns approved resolutions in 2005 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A War on Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
One of the paradoxes of the American experience is that although most Americans have an obsessive compulsive fear of death, they are also strongly attracted to war – particularly to wars against bigger-than-life figures such as Adolf Hitler, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible:  The Rebel&#8217;s Complete Handbook</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-bible-the-rebels-complete-handbook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the temple courts [Jesus] found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.  To those who sold doves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Nonviolence, Liberation, and the Power of Powerlessness</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/radical-nonviolence-liberation-and-the-power-of-powerlessness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Human killing is an act of nihilism.
Violence begets more violence, not      the other way around.
By whose authority other than the      law of the jungle do those who kill or sanction killing set themselves up      as prosecutor, judge, and executioner?
War is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing In The Name:  The Vermont National Guard F35s</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/killing-in-the-name-the-vermont-national-guard-f35s#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Congressman Peter Welch could hardly contain their enthusiasm over the news that Burlington International Airport has been named as one of ten possible sites to house the Air Force’s new F-35 fighter jet scheduled to replace the Vermont Air National Guard’s aging fleet of F-16s in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont:  The Closed Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
 
Mississippi 
 
 I grew up in the 1950s in what author James W. Silver correctly called Mississippi: The Closed Society. Anyone who had the courage to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of white supremacy and state enforced racial segregation was at risk of being labeled a “nigger-lover” which could lead to ridicule, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technofascist Drones</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 
 
Hardly a week goes by in which we do not learn of yet another attack by an American drone (a pilotless remote controlled aircraft) on either Afghan or Pakistani civilians.  These sinister instruments of death are controlled by well-trained, high-tech killers seated in air conditioned comfort in front of sophisticated instrument panels thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secession And The Politics Of Radical Nonviolent Confrontation</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/secession-and-the-politics-of-radical-nonviolent-confrontation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
Critics of secession in the United States often summarily dismiss it with the following reference to the Civil War.  “We’ve been there, done that, and it didn’t work out so well.”  What that myopic view overlooks is the possible relevance of five highly successful, nonviolent political movements in the second half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
 
Vermont – that precious and beautiful land of independence
And ferociously fierce freedom-mindedness
Vermont – that great Green Mountain Republic
With freedom and unity for all its citizens
Over the years Vermonters have taken many stands
Against slavery, against nuclear arms madness
And against terrible Federal tyranny
The fiercely free people of Vermont
Stand always for what they believe in
Always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vermont Secession Movement is Arguably the Most Radical Political Movement in the History of the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Second Vermont Republic, Vermont’s flagship secessionist group, just may be the most radical political movement in the history of the United States—more radical than the Second Continental Congress (1776), the Confederate States of America (1861-1865), the Communist Party, and the plethora of anti-war and civil rights organizations which emerged in the late 1960s.
The Second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Prepares the World for War Against Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
With laser-like focus every move by the Obama White House since the passage of the Health Care Reform Act has been concentrated on preparing the American people and the rest of the world for war with Iran.  Immediately after the bill was signed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vermontrepublic.org/?p=1166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

 
What do Governor Jim Douglas, Lt. Governor Brian Dubie, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Patrick Leahy, and Congressman Peter Welch all have in common?  They pledge their allegiance to the largest, wealthiest, most powerful, most racist, most militaristic, and most violent empire of all-time.  They are the twenty-first century equivalent of the Tories who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Vermont Republic Strategic Alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 
The Problem: The American Empire is the largest, wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all-time.  It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street, Corporate America, and the Israeli Lobby.  It has lost its moral authority and is unsustainable, ungovernable, and, therefore, unfixable.
Opportunities:

The Vermont Mystique. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neoliberalism: Neoconservatism Without a Smirk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has become increasingly obvious that the only difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush is that the famous Bush smirk has been replaced by the Obama smile.  The neoconservatism of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bill O’Reilly has given way to the neoliberalism of Bill Clinton, Timothy Geithner, Bernie Sanders, and Chris Matthews.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Free Vermont Lead the World Back to the Gold Standard?</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/could-free-vermont-lead-the-world-back-to-the-gold-standard#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Vermont becomes a free and independent republic, financial integrity and sustainability will be among its highest priorities.  Since it will be free of the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. Treasury, and the U.S. Government fiat money printing press, Vermont will be free to choose its own form of currency.  At least initially, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine Free Vermont, The Switzerland of North America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Vermont were to secede from the Union and become an independent nation-state, how could it possibly survive as a separate republic?  How would it function?  Are there any examples of smaller, sustainable nation-states which might serve as a role model for a state like Vermont, should it decide to leave the Union? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Loss of Moral Authority in Vermont</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-loss-of-moral-authority-in-vermont#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://76.12.235.170/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any Vermonter who supports Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, or Peter Welch is personally morally responsible, and should be held accountable, for the death and destruction inflicted by the U.S. Government upon the Afghans and Iraqis and upon the Palestinians through our proxy Israel.
Imagine…Free Vermont
Thomas H. Naylor
February 1, 2010
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		<title>The Hypocrisy of Politically Correct Vermont Neoliberals</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/the-hypocrisy-of-politically-correct-vermont-neoliberals#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Seven Days political columnist Shay Totten came dangerously close to accusing me of racism and anti-Semitism.  His assertions were based entirely on guilt by association.  What he didn’t tell his readers was how much time he spent with me back in the late 1990s when he was the editor of an obscure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Just War Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical nonviolence can undermine power and authority by withdrawing the approval, moral support, and cooperation of those who have been dealt an injustice.  It derives its strength from the energy buildup and very real power of powerlessness.
Not unlike virtually every other political leader throughout history who has ever led his nation into war, President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Emperor Barack Obama Issues Global Call to Arms at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://76.12.235.170/?p=308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an act of almost unprecedented irony, the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama, delivered what may have been the most imperialistic speech ever given by a U.S. president in Oslo on 10 December 2010 upon receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama’s peace prize speech, in fact, had little to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Have Lost Our Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economist Paul Craig Roberts recently wrote that “the United States is an immoral country, with an immoral people and an immoral government.”  Continuing he added that, “Americans no longer have a moral conscience.  They have gone over to the Dark Side.”
We are currently engaged in three highly visible immoral wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vermont Village Green:  Alternative to Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://76.12.235.170/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  The Empire.  Void of moral authority, unsustainable, ungovernable, and unfixable. 
2.  Political Independence.  Downsize, decentralize, demilitarize, democratize, and dissolve.
3.  Human Scale.  Small is beautiful. Human scale trumps the politics of money, power, size, speed, greed, and fear of terrorism.
4.  Sustainability.  Simplify.  Make molehills out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing the Decision to Secede</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://76.12.235.170/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a 2008 Zogby Poll 73 percent of Americans do not believe a state has the right to secede from the Union.  A 2009 Rasmussen Poll found that 31 percent of Texans believe Texas does have such a right.  Although eighteen percent of Texans actually favor secession, only 11.5 percent of Vermonters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Left:  Rebel Without A Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after voting for Richard Nixon in 1960, I was won over to the political left by a combination of John F. Kennedy, a Tulane University economics professor who was a German Social Democrat, and an 85-year-old New Orleans attorney, who was a socialist and looked like Colonel Sanders.  In 1964 I was elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Government Is No Longer Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguably Vermont is the most radical state in the Union in terms of its commitment to human solidarity, individual freedom, sustainability, direct democracy, egalitarianism, communitarianism, political independence, and nonviolence; and it’s been that way for a long time. 
Vermont’s radicalism goes back at least to 15 January 1777, when it became an independent republic.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can We Do About the American Empire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years the United States of America has evolved into the largest, wealthiest, most powerful, most materialistic, most racist, most militaristic, most violent empire of all times.  The question is, “What can be done about it, if anything?”  We shall examine six possible responses to the American Empire:
1.  Denial
2.  Acquiescence
3. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Is No National Fix for the American Health Care System</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/there-is-no-national-fix-for-the-american-health-care-system</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/there-is-no-national-fix-for-the-american-health-care-system#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claims that the American health care system is broken are by no means exaggerated.  We have by far the most expensive health care delivery system in the world.  We spend over $2 trillion annually on health care or an average of over $6,300 per person.  Spiraling increases in the cost of health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Spectrum Dominance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
F. William Engdahl, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.  Baton Rouge, LA: Third Millennium Press, 2009, 256 pages, $24.95.
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If you believe that the term “American Empire” refers only to our nation’s illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our unconditional support for Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians, then you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vote for Bernie is a Vote for Empire</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/a-vote-for-bernie-is-a-vote-for-empire</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/a-vote-for-bernie-is-a-vote-for-empire#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what Senator Bernie Sanders may say to the contrary, he is a loyal supporter of the American Empire—the wealthiest, most materialistic, most racist, most powerful, most militaristic, and most violent empire of all time.  To put it bluntly, Bernie owes his soul to the U.S. government.  It provides him with employment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve Axioms of American Foreign Policy Towards Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Because six million Jews were annihilated by the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II, Jews were entitled to their own country within what was once the Biblical Holy Land inhabited mostly by Palestinian Arabs.
2. The Holocaust provided the moral justification for Israelis to demonize, terrorize, displace, and murder tens of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economics:  The Abysmal Science</title>
		<link>http://vermontrepublic.org/economics-the-abysmal-science</link>
		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/economics-the-abysmal-science#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No academic discipline has ever been so thoroughly discredited in such a short period of time as has economics over the past year.  Virtually no business, government, or academic economists foresaw what may prove to be the greatest economic meltdown in history.  Even though all of the evidence points to a major recession, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Does It Cost Vermont to Remain in the Union?</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/how-much-does-it-cost-vermont-to-remain-in-the-union-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 4 March 1791, 218 years ago, Vermont surrendered its sovereignty as an independent republic and became the fourteenth state of the American Empire, the largest, most powerful, most militaristic, most materialistic empire of all time.  Today Vermont finds itself emasculated by a nation which is owned, operated, and controlled by Corporate America and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Vermont Republic Coinage &#8211; An Idea Whose Time Has Come</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/second-vermont-republic-coinage-an-idea-whose-time-has-come#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
On a crisp day last Fall I had the pleasure of standing on a little known spot of Vermont history. What is today called Hagar Brook was in 1785 known as Millbrook stream. This was the site where Reuben Harmon, Jr. of Rupert minted the first coins of the Vermont Republic in an endeavor that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Untied States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published in The American Conservative November 3, 2008 
If at first you don’t secede&#8230; 
By John Schwenkler
WHOEVER WINS ON NOV. 4, few Americans will harbor any illusions about their national unity. No matter which pairing one chooses—red and blue, Right and Left, coastal elites and flyover salt-of-the-earthers—there is no getting around our status as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time for a Declaration of Independence from Israel</title>
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		<comments>http://vermontrepublic.org/its-time-for-a-declaration-of-independence-from-israel-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech delivered on Thursday, May 22, 2008, at Princeton University by Chris Hedges
This speech was first written as an article in 2007.
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Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 war when Egypt, trained and backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the Suez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Reasons Why Secession Is Still Such a Tough Sell in Vermont &amp; Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Naylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though 77 percent of the eligible voters in Vermont believe the U.S. government has lost its moral authority and 49 percent think the United States has become unsustainable (politically, economically, militarily, and environmentally), only 11.5 percent are in favor of Vermont seceding from the Union and becoming an independent republic.
Secession is one of the [...]]]></description>
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