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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.
What's New?
November 25, 2012
Malian women oppose "proxy war" in country and region
Introduction to the Manifesto:
"From the dramatic situation in Mali comes a terrible reality seen in other countries in conflict: the instrumentalisation of acts of violence against women to justify interference and wars of greed for the riches of their countries. African women must know this and make it known.
"Just as the amputation of two thirds of Mali's territory and the imposition of sharia on the populations of the occupied regions are humanly inacceptable, so too is the instrumentalisation of this situation, and the fate of women, morally indefensible and politically intolerable.
"In this situation we, women of Mali, have an historic role to play, here and now, to defend our human rights against three forms of fundamentalism: the religious, through radical Islam; the economic, through the commercialization of everything; and policies of formal democracy, corrupt and corrupting.
"We invite all those in our country, in Africa and elsewhere who feel concerned about our liberation from these fundamentalisms to join their voices with ours and say "No" to the proxy war looming on the horizon. The following arguments justify this refusal." ...
Download the 8 page paper, translated by WLOE from the French original.
Website in Mali with French original here: http://www.foram-forum-mali.org/