Special coverage in the Trump Era

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

Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More

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?

June 30, 2008

The Effect of the Food Crisis on Women and Their Families

This report from the coalition "Women Thrive Worldwide" describes how women are the hardest hit by the food crisis, and how they can be part of the solution to this crisis.

"Even before the food crisis hit, an estimated 7 out of 10 of the world's hungry were women and girls," we learn from a UNIFEM report quoted in this fact-filled exposé of the current rise in food and oil prices.

Action can be taken: "... investing in women is key to solving the food crisis... Increasing women's access to the means of agricultural production, such as farming land or fertilizers, farm labor, credit and educations, as well as decision-making authority within the household, is crucial to guaranteeing food security and improving the nutritional status of children..."
Read this 5 page summary report with footnotes in pdf download here.

Source: Women Thrive Worldwide "is a diverse coalition of over 50 organizations and 25,000 individuals committed to using the power of U.S. policy to help women around the world lift themselves and their families out of poverty."

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