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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

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..."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

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The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version

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March 16, 2008

March 16, 2008 - fifth anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death

On March 16, 2003, the Israeli army killed U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie with a Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer in a refugee camp in Rafah, in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Rachel was killed while she non-violently tried to prevent the demolition by Israel of a Palestinian family’s home.

Three days later, on March 19, 2003, the United States launched what former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan deemed an “illegal” war on Iraq.

Rachel Corrie’s all too brief life was dedicated to promoting justice, the dignity of all human beings, and a world free of want and war.

On the tragic 5th anniversary of her death and our country’s ongoing war on and occupation of Iraq, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation asks all of its member organizations and individual supporters to recommit themselves to the ideals for which Rachel Corrie stood and to take action to realize the goals for which she struggled.

source: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1605

See this website for a list of actions that can be taken, to remember and honor Rachel Corrie, hold corporations accountable for profiteering from war and human rights abuses, and protest U.S. arms transfers to Israel.

The website http://www.rachelswords.org presents the writings of Rachel Corrie and promotes the play based on them: My Name is Rachel Corrie. On this anniversary they report:

"In the last 5 years, Rachel’s Corrie’s voice has broken through barriers to reach a widening audience. Craig and Cindy Corrie are in Haifa. On March 16 they will attend the opening performance of the play My Name is Rachel Corrie in Arabic at the Al-Midan Theatre. Friends from the Royal Court Theatre, which originally premiered the play, are joining them. After Haifa, the play will travel to Nazareth, Jaffa and Ramallah. The play, whose cancellation in New York launched our own initiative, is now being produced in theaters all over the U.S. and internationally."

 

 

 

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