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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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April 05, 2011
Remembering Satomi in Post-Fukushima India
J. Sri Raman, author of Flashpoint: How the U.S., India, and Pakistan Brought us to the Brink of Nuclear War remembers the dedicated Japanese activist, and our former WLOE advisor, Satomi Oba, who warned the world not only of the dangers of nuclear power and weapons, but also of the particularly dangerous siting of Japanese reactors. This article was published on Truthout on March 31, 2011:
"For me, as for many others who knew her even slightly, the first thing that the news of Japan's nuclear disaster did was bring back memories of Satomi Oba. The gentle and brave antinuclear activist gave decades of her life to alert the Japanese against just such a deadly danger and to avert it before dying of a brain hemorrhage at age 54 on February 24, 2005.
I met Satomi first in 2001 in Hiroshima. That city, along with Nagasaki, was then the only Japanese reminder of the horrors atomic adventurers could unleash. A decade before Fukushima, she told other participants in a world conference on nuclear weapons about the perils the nuclear reactors in her country posed. (Her views, in detail, can be found here). It was not long before she confronted the same issue as the quake-prone land faces currently, in a more inescapable form."...
Read full article here.
See also our page on Satomi Oba, former WLOE e.V. Advisor.