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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

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..."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

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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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August 28, 2013

Voices against war -- no attack on Syria

From CODEPINK to Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and peace groups worldwide the demand goes out: "The terrible and widespread killing in Syria will become even more terrible and more widespread if the U.S. military (or a coalition of allies) launches an attack. The choice is not between doing nothing and bombing the Syrian people."

CODEPINK: (August 28) Today, CODEPINK was out on the streets of the Capitol for the March on Washington asking for peace in Syria! Join us in calling upon President Obama to seek an immediate ceasefire and regional peace talks; provide massive humanitarian aid to over 2 million refugees fleeing the violence; uplift the voices of people who are already engaging in nonviolent acts of resistance on the ground; and halt arms sales to regimes in the Middle East. We cannot save innocent Syrians by dropping more bombs on their homes. Military intervention will lead us into yet another endless war in a region already embroiled in conflict. We need to help end the violence, not escalate it.
Tell Obama, Peace Not War in Syria! (e-mail petition with more information)

Freedom Rider: American Hell for Syria
by Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley:
"With the imminent attack on Syria, Barack Obama prepares to add to his personal legacy of illegal wars based entirely on lies." more

Prevent an Attack on Syria Now: Roots Action on-line petition here

Press release     26th August 2013
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire today appealed to the Rt. Hon. William Hague, British Foreign Minister, and M. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, to stop calling for military action against Syria which, she said, will only lead the Middle East into even more violence and bloodshed for its people.
Maguire said:
“Arming rebels and authorizing military action by US/NATO forces will not solve the problem Syria is facing but indeed could lead to the death of thousands of Syrians and to the breaking-up of the country falling under the control of violent fundamentalist jihadist forces. It will mean the further fleeing of Syrians into surrounding countries which will themselves become destabilised. The entire Middle East will then become unstable and violence will spiral out of control. ...

“We all remember the fear, panic and lies spun by the British and American governments and others that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and it were not true.   Let us learn the lesson of Iraq, Afghanistan  and Libya where so many millions have been killed in invasions and war, and many continue to die in violence. Violence is not the answer. Let’s end this ‘war on terror’ and give nonviolence and peace a chance.”more
http://www.peacepeople.com/

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