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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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December 05, 2015
Women speak out in Paris on climate crisis
U.S. Accused of Shifting Responsibility of Climate Crisis Despite Role as Largest Historic Polluter -- Meena Raman
In this interview, Meena Raman, climate change coordinator for the Third World Network, honorary secretary of Friends of the Earth Malaysia and a long time climate leader speaks about the 'hollow' and 'rhetorical' statements from President Obama in a situation where developing countries bear the burden of climate change caused by others. See the video and a transcript here
(Background: Meena Raman on earlier summits:
Meena Raman / Third World Network /Climate Justice, Nov, 241, 2010)
African Women, Hit Hardest by Climate Change, Forge New Solutions Across the Continent
Interview with Priscilla Achakpa, delegate from Nigeria, with the Women’s Caucus and the Women and Gender Constituency here at the U.N. Climate Summit, and Edna Kaptoyo, program coordinator with the Kenya-based Indigenous Information Network. She is a member of the Indigenous People’s Caucus and the Women and Gender Constituency here at the U.N. Climate Summit.
See video interview with print transcript here