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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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March 21, 2015
Spring Rising Cleans Up Washington’s War Crimes
Resist! War Criminal, Wars and Militarism
By Robert Brune, www.popularresistance.org
March 20th, 2015
"The day began with a round of lobbying on the Hill in Washington, D.C. with the Code Pink team. The most diligent anti war organization in the world carried out some Spring Cleaning. More photos and video can be found at https://twitter.com/codepink"
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From a March 18 CODEPINK Press Release:
"This action is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the war in Iraq that left that nation in shambles and cost Americans over a trillion dollars and thousands of lives. It also comes on the heels of the reelection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was recently in Washington to pressure Congress to tighten sanctions with Iran instead of pursuing negotiations.
“With all the dirty tricks to sabotage nuclear negotiations with Iran, it’s time for a spring cleaning session in Congress,” said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin. “We'll dust away the cobwebs of war and wipe up the bloody fingerprints of AIPAC lobbyists and defense contractors!”