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From Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency site: "44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers and their network of political groups, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney."
Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line
Can Time Inc. Survive the Kochs? November 28, 2017 By Jane Mayer
..."This year, among the Kochs’ aims is to spend a projected four hundred million dollars in contributions from themselves and a small group of allied conservative donors they have assembled, to insure Republican victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Ordinarily, political reporters for Time magazine would chronicle this blatant attempt by the Kochs and their allies to buy political influence in the coming election cycle. Will they feel as free to do so now?"...
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.
Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."
Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the Women's March on Washington
The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version
Local Futures offers a free 19-minute abridged version of its award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness. It "brings us voices of hope of in a time of crisis." www.localfutures.org.
What's New?
May 23, 2010
Diane Wilson and CODEPINK take on BP
She tells the story of her struggle against polluting coporations in her book An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
She writes to the CODEPINK e-alert list that "it breaks my heart to see the devastat
ion caused by the BP disaster. That's why I'm organizing a CODEPINK protest on Monday at BP corporate headquarters in Houston. Dripping with oil and dragging nets full of dead fish, we'll put our bodies on the line to expose the naked truth of "Drill, baby, drill."
We will bring our outrage to BP's doorstep, denouncing this criminal company that ignored crucial safety issues, cut corners, and spent millions lobbying Congress to fight regulations. BP has a sordid history of recklessly pursuing enormous profits at the expense of workers' lives and the environment, and it's got to stop.
But we need your help. A Senate bill, the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act, would have spiked the maximum liability for oil companies from a pitiful $75 million to $10 billion-making sure that BP paid for this man-made catastrophe. Remember, this company reported a profit of $5.5 billion in just the last three months! But unbelievably, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) opposed the bill and blocked it from even coming to a vote. Please contact this lady's office and tell her to stop protecting BP and instead protect the fishermen, the coastal residents and the wildlife.
Let's demand an end to the rape and plunder of our planet. Now is the moment to hold BP accountable and then go the next step--put an end to offshore drilling and build a 21st century energy system based on renewable sources instead of dirty oil!"
Diane Wilson
Read Diane's blog "The Naked Truth" on PinkTANK
Sign-up for CODEPINK E-alerts from their homepage, here.