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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

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?

March 12, 2008

1000 PeaceWomen -- now in German!

On March 11 the German translation of 1000 portraits of women around the world who were nominated for the Nobel peace prize went on-line.

The work was a tremendous effort by a team of 13 translators -- two of them WLOE members -- and two editors. They spent months carefully doing German versions of the presentations of women who have been active for peace -- in many different ways -- around the world. At the launching of the German translation, now on-line at:
http://buchdeutsch.1000peacewomen.org
a founder of the 1000 PeaceWomen project, Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, described the great difficulties, even personal danger, experienced by many of the peace women. For instance, one of the women selected in a decentralized year-plus long nomination process, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja, was gunned down in 2006. (more, from the 1000 PeaceWomen website here.)
The exhibition on the 1000 PeaceWomen will now also be available in German, and independent translations have been done in other languages as well. The goal is clear: to bring the stories of these women's lives and work to as large an audience as possible.

For more on the 1000 PeaceWomen project and book on our site.

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