Dear John Ryan,

I read with interest your letter in Seven Days last week in response to my letter about their so-called media issue. (I printed your letter out below in its entirety.)

Even though you and I have never actually met, we do seem to share much in common.

We're both good-looking fellas.

Rob Williams.

Why doesn't Vermont just annex itself to Canada and get it over with?

by David Budbill.

Interesting FREE VERMONT RADIO podcast.

Dennis Steele and Free Vermont Radio.

The Vermont independence effort's 2010 gubernatorial candidate Dennis Steele challenges the Democratic candidates at their UVM "debate" on the important question of bringing home Vermont's National Guard, and challenging federal authority.

Interesting listening.

While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis. In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.

March 4, 1791 - the day that citizens of an independent Vermont republic (1777 - 1791) voted to join the new United States. Time to re-think that decision, fellow Vermont citizens. Free Vermont! Long live the UNtied States.

Vermont needs to hike up her boots and cut herself loose.  We will
do this in town after town after town. Mingle and talk and take names. 
Pass the hat at the end, for $5 or $10 per, is the hope...Dennis Morrisseau is a pro-independence candidate for the Vermont Senate, from Pawlet (Rutland County), and organizer of the "Thirty for Senate" 2010 campaign. 

In the end, women may not be the sole proprietors of humanity’s
connectedness and caring, but, needless to say, we surely have
something essential to offer the work of healing and survival in
today’s sad, desperate world...Chellis Glendinning is an advisor to the Second
Vermont Republic, a psychotherapist, and the author of five books that
explore the “personalness” of the political.  She lives in Cochabamba,
Bolivia.

There’s a little town house in South Burlington where six tons of CO2
isn’t going into the atmosphere anymore. There are houses all over
Vermont that emit dozens of tons of carbon. The question that confronts
each of us is, where would we rather live? Will Lindner is a mandolin player, writer, and editor living in Barre. He serves as managing editor for Vermont Commons.

Read more at Bill Miller's Secession University.

Sourced from CommonDreams.org.

When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy.