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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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June 24, 2009
More on Iranian Women's Resistance
'Courageous' Women Front Iran's Resistance
by Cathal Kelly
Published June 24, 2009 by the Toronto Star/Canada
excerpt:
"There is an unfortunate distorted image of Iranian women. Everybody (in the West) is surprised at what's happening in Iran because they have this image of women victimized by their state, by their husbands," said Farzeneh Milani, a University of Virginia professor who has studied the Iranian women's movement for three decades.
" 'The truth of the matter is that the women's movement in Iran goes back to the middle of the 19th century.'
"Women have played a role in each one of Iran's cultural spasms. Many of the pro-Islamic activists during the 1979 Islamic Revolution were women. But the current reformist movement is a reaction to government measures aimed at pushing women to the sidelines of public life.
"In 2005, the regime began a modesty campaign, the goal being a stricter enforcement of veiling.
" 'I call it gender apartheid, the separation of men and women in all spheres,' said Shahrzad Mojab, an activist who fled Iran in 1983 and now teaches at the University of Toronto. 'It really has been building up over the last 30 years.' "
Read article here, with thanks to Common Dreams.org