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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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February 21, 2014
Mexico conference marks turning point towards nuclear weapon ban
"With a large group of countries calling for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons the meeting marked a turning point in the process to outlaw and eliminate these weapons of mass destruction. Austria announced that it would host the next meeting in Vienna later this year.
"All the facts are on the table now. The impact of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic horrific and we could not respond. The risk of a detonation is significant. That is why we have heard growing support this week for a ban," said Krista van Velzen, nuclear disarmament campaigner with Pax. As part of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) PAX-campaigners Krista van Velzen and Susi Snyder, as well as 100 ICAN campaigners from 90 different countries were present at the conference to put extra pressure on delegations to move towards a ban on nuclear weapons."...
Read full posting here:
http://www.nonukes.nl/en/news/mexico-conference-marks-turning-point-towards-nuclear-weapon-ban
From the English language part of the Dutch website www.nonukes:
"No Nukes is Pax’ campaign for a world free of nuclear weapons. The No Nukes team informs, mobilizes and speaks out for nuclear disarmament. We do so through (ICAN) campaigns, contacts with politicians, research and publications." more