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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 15, 2010
The Women of Haiti Still in Rubble
"The human rights of women in post-quake Haiti have been a barometer of injustice in the international response to the crisis: activists say poverty, sexual violence and political disenfranchisement have created a second wave of disaster.
In the immediate aftermath, chronic food and water shortages hit women especially hard. The haphazard distribution systems set up by international aid agencies either led to chaotic scrambles, which threatened to leave women with nothing, or were simply inadequate to meet their families’ needs.
Today, squalid refugee camps expose women and girls to various harms, from violence to disease, while security provisions waver between hyper-militarization and utter neglect.
Reports of sexual assault revealed that rape was not only a frequent occurrence in camps, but treated with humiliating indifference by the authorities governing the camps. According to the research of MADRE, the Haiti-based group KOFAVIV, and other organizations:"...
Read full article by Michelle Chen
Published on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by ColorLines Magazine