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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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May 31, 2008
Support hunger strike against Star Wars base
Since May 24 Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space has been on a hunger strike, consuming "nothing except water with lemon, orange juice in the morning and herbal tea in the evening... Gagnon has joined other strikers worldwide, including Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar of the Czech Republic, both leaders of the No to Bases Coalition, which opposes the deployment of the radar system. The Prague Monitor reported earlier this month that the radar base would facilitate ten interceptor missiles which are designed to shoot enemy missiles out of the sky. The Czech government reported at the time that two treaties on the system were expected to be signed in June or mid-July at the latest, the Monitor said."
Source: Times Record (Brunswick, Maine) read story here
Leader of the Czech movement against the planned US military base Jan Tamas started his hunger strike on Tuesday, May 13. He was joined by Jan Bednar, activist in the movement.
"We have tried almost everything, but our government has failed to listen to us. They continue to ignore the fact that more than two thirds of Czechs oppose this plan," said Jan Tamas in reference to the March 2008 polls showing 67% of Czech disagree with the planned US deployment of a missile defense radar site in the Czech Republic. "We are calling on our friends from abroad to support us in our struggle as this is not only a local issue, but it is a regional issue." Currently people in 14 cities across Europe expressed their support to the hunger strike and will join the two Czechs by going on solidarity hunger strikes in their cities. These include Paris, Turin, Athens, Rome, Budapest and others.
Support the strikers, oppose the radar base: sign an on-line petition here.