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

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?

February 12, 2007

Yes, We Still Need Black History Month

writes Loretta Williams, Director of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

in the February 2007 issue of Peacework Magazine:

"Yes, ... it is still most important to bring forth erased history. It helps correct miseducation on a version of American history that excludes so many and so much -- particularly how people acted grounded in possibilities not yet seen. Notions of the supremacy of those with white skin color, and the inferiority of those with darker skin color, are deeply embedded in the fabric of the United States, and sanitized US history..."

See also our pages on Black History and women, done in 2005-2006 at:

http://www.wloe.org/WLOE-en/resources/blackhistory/blackhistorymenu.html


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