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Second Vermont Republic

• Occupy Wall Street Revisited: Who Is Being Occupied By Whom?
  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 […]
  Thomas Naylor
• Occupy Wall Street and the Peaceful Dissolution of the American Empire
  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, raci […]
  Thomas Naylor
• The EU Plays the China Card: A Nonzero-Sum, N-Country Chess Game
  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 [...]
  Thomas Naylor
• Occupy World Street
  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 [...]
  Thomas Naylor
• The Fix Is In: Israel Plans to Attack Iran?s Nuclear Sites
  The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 2012, cover-story by Ronen Bergman entitled “Will Israel Attack Iran?” was little short of an official communiqué from the Israeli government to the American people of its intention to attack Iran’s nuclear sites in 2012. Bergman, an Israeli journalist, interviewed “many senior Israeli leaders […]
  Thomas Naylor
• Vermont Sí, Yankee No
  Why was anyone surprised that a federal judge recently ruled that the state of Vermont does not have the right to decide whether or not an aging, leaky, unsafe nuclear power plant operated by an out-of-state company with a record of lying and misrepresenting the truth should be allowed to continue operating in Vermont?  [...]
  Thomas Naylor
• At last: Someone Who Understands America Has Failed
  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 […]
  Thomas Naylor
• Why America Failed
  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 [...]
  Thomas Naylor
• George F. Kennan: Godfather of the Vermont Independence Movement
  With the publication of John Lewis Gaddis’s new book George F. Kennan:  An American Life (Penguin Press, 2011), the name of the former dean of the American diplomatic corps is once again on the national radar screen.  When George F. Kennan died on March 17, 2005, at the age of 101, few Americans were aware [...]
  Thomas Naylor
• The University of Vermont?s Culture of Violence
  “If you could rape someone, who would it be?”  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 [...]
  Thomas Naylor

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• Greg Palast: Why We #Occupy: How Wall Street Picks the Bones of America
• #OccupyVermont - Burlington Really Really Free Market!

Electronic Intifada : Palestine

• Israel lobby's machinations on Iran probed in new book
  Rod Such 21 February 2012 Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran is an exhaustive account of what happened to Obama’s campaign pledge towards Iran, particularly after the Israeli government and its lobby in the United States challenged the very notion of diplomacy.
  nora
• Vital health services under threat in Gaza power crisis
  Gaza City 21 February 2012 An energy crisis is currently hitting the Gaza Strip’s public services hard and could lead to a severe humanitarian crisis if a sustainable solution is not found soon.
  maureen
• East Jerusalem cinema reopens after 25 years
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 20 February 2012 Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem can once again go to the movies, now that Al Quds Cinema has reopened its doors after being closed for 25 years.
  maureen
• Never mind Johnny Rotten, real punks boycott Israel
  Alexander Billet Chicago 20 February 2012 Working with the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Punks Against Apartheid follows a firm tradition of anti-racism within the punk movement.
  nora
• Gaza families recount terror of latest air strikes
  Rami Almeghari Gaza City 17 February 2012 Israeli airstrikes early Thursday morning injured six persons, including rescue workers. Meanwhile, area residents say this is not the first time they have been subjected to Israeli strikes.
  maureen
• Book identifies pressure points for boycott actions
  Asa Winstanley 17 February 2012 A new handbook for BDS activists around the world offers tactical and practical suggestions for strengthening global boycott actions.
  nora
• Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
  Nehad Khader Washington, DC 16 February 2012 Protests in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan made his plight impossible to ignore.
  maureen
• Israeli forces destroy "the only place for children in Silwan"
  Josie Shields-Stromsness East Jerusalem 15 February 2012 Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
  nora
• Raed Salah deportation case disintegrates in UK court, but verdict still to follow
  Asa Winstanley London 15 February 2012 The judge heading the panel assessing whether Palestinian civil rights leader Sheikh Raed Salah can be deported from the UK has cast serious doubt on the British government’s case. A final verdict is expected in the next two weeks.
  Ali Abunimah
• Gazans shocked at home demolitions ordered "by our own brothers"
  Rami Almeghari Gaza City 13 February 2012 Gaza City residents in the coastal Hamami neighborhood are outraged after the Gaza government bulldozed their houses to make way for a major infrastructure project.
  maureen

Mondoweiss The War of Ideas in the Middle East

• Why Israel freed Khader Adnan
  Adnan's case, as numerous commentators rightly note, has drawn attention to Israel's practice of administrative detention. But by promising to release Adnan, the Israeli government headed off what could have been an embarrassing political and legal debacle.
• Visualizing Palestine: Hunger strikes
  A graphic outlining the history, and physical effects, of hunger strikes.
• Why young Palestinians chant the word ?thoura?
  I ask a Palestinian student if he has ever been to the sea, which he can see from his home. His answer reflects the widespread desperation among Palestinians and the call for revolutionary change.
• PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference
  Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.
• Global march to challenge the ?Judaization? of Jerusalem
  Hundreds of community organizations in dozens of countries spanning the globe have decided to participate in a massive Global March to Jerusalem on March 30, 2012.
• The Palestinian refugees of Lebanon
  In my native Lebanon, where I volunteered last winter in a number of Palestinian refugees camps such as Burj el Barajne, I saw first hand the immense level of deprivation Palestinians face as refugees in Lebanon, where they are prevented from the right to work, from joining any Lebanese trade unions, from owning property and even denied social security.
• Dog-bites-man story in NYT leads readers to say, tail wags dog
  Republicans want to railroad us into a war that serves Israel, NYT readers write
• Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel
  Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics-- American Jews heart Israel
• Foreign nationals willingly gave passports to Mossad
  If you give your English passport to the Mossad for use in overseas operations, aren't you an Israel firster?
• Video: mob of settlers call Hanin Zoabi a ?terrorist?
  Settlers mob member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi on Sunday as she walks through Hebron with military escort.

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