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Ex–Reagan Aide Wants 3 Southern States to Secede as Republic Named for the...
In my most recent blog post, I discussed proposals by civic leaders in South Miami, Florida, that the Sunshine State divide in two. But this week Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House aide, has been...
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“Lower Volga People’s Republic”—Internet Prank, or a New Autonomist Headache...
Kremlin authorities are still baffled by an apparent Internet prank on October 7th which declared Astrakhan Oblast was declaring independence from the Russian Federation as the “Lower Volga People’s...
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Strange Bedfellows: “Republic of Venice” Libertarians Side with Putin in...
Strange things are happening in Europe, as the West’s political landscape shifts in the wake of the war in Ukraine. In the latest head-scratcher, a prominent academic historian and separatist...
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Corruption Scandal Set to Put Separatists in Charge of Greenland; Inuit...
An unexpected chain of events over the past several weeks has put independence for the Danish possession of Greenland back on the table and may determine the future of energy politics in the Arctic,...
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Boko Haram’s Nascent State in Nigeria Takes Shape, with Vast Parts of Borno,...
As reported in August in this blog, Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist terrorist group in Nigeria which has been waging a lethal war against Christian (and other) civilians for years, took a page from...
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Game-Changing Votes in Moldova, Taiwan, Greenland; Ethnic Violence in...
EUROPEPro-West Party Wins in Moldova; Kremlin Sends “Humanitarian” Convoy to Transnistria. In the formerly-Soviet Republic of Moldova, parliamentary elections on November 30th handed a victory to...
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Beijing Folds Up Umbrella Revolution; Papua Army Massacre; a Shia–Sunni...
Hong Kong’s streets have been cleared, but no one is conceding defeat (see below under “Asia”)EUROPEKosovo Names New Government; Mustafa of L.D.K. to be Premier. After a six-month stalement, the...
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10 Separatist Movements to Watch in 2015
Last year, in my annual look forward at what the coming twelvemonth promises in the way of ethnonationalist struggles and new-state movements, my predictions were sadly accurate when it came to a few...
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Let’s Split! Now Available for Purchase
The day has come. Your copy of Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar, published by Litwin Books, is available now for purchase on...
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Malawians Debate Hiving Off North of Already-Tiny Country to Form “Nyika...
The number of African countries which do not have an active separatist movement has shrunk by one more, as the Republic of Malawi, a remarkably slender sliver of land wedged between Mozambique and...
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Miamians, Fed Up with GOP Indifference to Rising Seas, Propose “State of...
The contested United States presidential election in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush made Florida famous not only for ballot-box dysfunction but also for its division on a razor’s edge between...
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Seeds of Fascism: Century-Old Soiled Hanky Could Enable Cloning of Carnaro...
Sometimes there’s a theme in a week’s minor news stories, and this week it seems to be: the mislaid spermatazoa of flamboyantly (even specifically upward-turning!) mustachioed Mediterranean...
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Miamians, Fed Up with GOP Indifference to Rising Seas, Propose “State of...
The contested United States presidential election in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush made Florida famous not only for ballot-box dysfunction but also for its division on a razor’s edge between...
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Cossacks at the Alamo? Putin’s Chechen Toadies Threaten to Arm Mexico for...
The speaker of parliament of southwestern Russia’s Chechen Republic responded on March 24th to recent measures in the United States Congress to arm Ukraine against Russian aggression by threatening to...
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UKIP’s Rise Casts Gibraltar’s Future into Question: Spanish “Reconquista” or...
The recent rise of the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants the U.K. to leave the European Union (E.U.), has shaken up British politics. Next month’s general election is not...
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Liberland: Czech Libertarian Declares New State on Danube Disputed by Croats...
This past week a new nation was declared, on a spot of land in the murkily demarcated border zone in the region of Slavonia where the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia meet. But it is not...
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Corruption Scandal Set to Put Separatists in Charge of Greenland; Inuit...
An unexpected chain of events over the past several weeks has put independence for the Danish possession of Greenland back on the table and may determine the future of energy politics in the Arctic,...
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Boko Haram’s Nascent State in Nigeria Takes Shape, with Vast Parts of Borno,...
As reported in August in this blog, Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist terrorist group in Nigeria which has been waging a lethal war against Christian (and other) civilians for years, took a page from...
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Philadelphia Apartment Building Claimed as Sovereign “Moorish” Territory on...
A new Black nationalist micronation in Philadelphia?The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has never healed from the horrific events of May 1985, when police helicopters bombed an urban compound...
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Read an Interview with Chris Roth, Author of “Let’s Split!”, on the “Library...
Read an interview with Chris Roth, author of Let’s Split!, on the “Library Juice” blog ...Click here for the interview.Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from...
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