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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
..."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.

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August 08, 2008

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Anniversary

"Another 6 August, and the horrors of sixty-three years ago arise undiminished in the minds of our hibakusha, whose average age now exceeds 75. 'Water, please!' 'Help me!' 'Mommy!' - On this day, we, too, etch in our hearts the voices, faces and forms that vanished in the hell no hibakusha can ever forget, renewing our determination that 'No one else should ever suffer as we did.' "

So begins the declaration of Hiroshima's mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, on the sixty-third anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and (on 9 August) Nagasaki.
Read his statement: Hiroshima: 1945-2008, and beyond

See our pages on Hiroshima-Nagasaki and women and the bomb

See films on YouTube: Hiroshima 2008: People v Bomb Trailer
and
a film on this year's ceremony in Hiroshima on August 6th: Hiroshima Peace 2008


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