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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.
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July 06, 2011
Latest on the Gaza Flotilla
The French news website Libération.fr reported on 6 July that the French ship Dignité in the "freedom flotilla" is now in international waters. The crew is determined to reach Gaza. There are 12 passengers on the French boat: eight activists, three crewmembers and a Libération.fr journalist. (our translation)
See stories and photos:
(Source and thanks: fenwib, the French language e-news service of Women in Black)
The Guardian (UK) newspaper reported on July 5th: "Activists seeking to break Israel's blockade of Gaza with a flotilla of aid ships appeared close to defeat on Tuesday as a self-imposed deadline expired and many of the international campaigners due to sail began to return home." Story, video here
A good report -- direct from the ship "Audacity of Hope" -- and with various flotilla participants (including Alice Walker, Ann Wright and Hedy Epstein) was broadcast on July 6th on Democracy Now! and is available there on-line and as text. (Click on link)
See also CODE PINK's Flotilla to Gaza - Latest News!