What Can Progressive America Learn From today's Independence Day Referendum of the Scottish Nation

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(Excerpt cross posted by author)

Written by an American expat living in the European Union on the eve of the election referendum on the independence of Scotland and the birth of a new nation. The American media has portrayed the vote for Scottish independence (on the "Yes" side led by Alex Salmond and on the "No" side led by Alistair Darling) in little more than sound bites to match the bumper sticker attention span that matters too often are given in the plutocratic owned American corporatist media. The truth and simple matter is that the conservative government of British Prime Minister David Cameron has pushed austerity measures onto Scotland that are so severe that Scottish progressives along with a broad blanket coalition of patriotic minded citizens have organized through the ballot box a lawful election, the point of which is to secede from Great Britain so that oil rich Scotland, which has the greatest known oil reserves in the European Union can finally be in control of its own future.

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