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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 25, 2008
"A reckoning for the women victims of the Bosnian war?"
..."We will never know how many women were raped in Bosnia and Croatia. What we do know is that mass rape occurred and it was not a specific aspect of Serb brutality. There has always been rape in war. What this war did was to bring it out of the shadows, out of the dismissive inattention that accompanies the phrase "war propaganda", or "the fog of war". Rape is as much a fact of war, of the control of civilian populations, as ethnic cleansing. It took a modern women's movement to collect the data and a critical mass of women journalists to insist on writing about it. From then on, rape in war would be taken seriously.
With the arrest two days ago of Radovan Karadzic, and his forthcoming trial in The Hague, there might now be some debate about justice for the women so abused."
Read full article here.
This link was sent out on the Women in Black international listserve. The following response was sent in by Mary Wentworth from Massachusetts USA:
"Linda Grant’s report on mass rape of Croatian and Bosnian women by Serb militias is very moving. Our hearts ache for the suffering of our sisters. Let me make an important point in this discussion that puts rape, I think, in its proper context. Rape (and the threat of rape) is vital to the patriarchy’s ongoing success in subordinating women.
Across the globe hundreds of thousands of women experience rape each year, whether or not there is an armed conflict going on in the area where they live. Rape is not considered a crime in some parts of the world and, for the most part, goes unpunished even where it is. Here in the US county where I live, the routine defense of a male brought up on rape charges is that it was a consensual act and, time after time, jurors believe him.
Rape in wartime has a place on the continuum of violence toward women that stretches back through millennia to the origins of the patriarchy.
For more on this, go to: http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org/content/category/1/101/59 and read my article on Patriarchy ...