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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 19, 2015
Laura Poitras on the Post-9/11 Moral Vacuum and How Snowden Will Go Down in History
Thanks to Andrea Germanos, staff writer at Common Dreams, for this story, with video interview, from Common Dreams, Feb. 19, 2015:
"...it's easy to forget it all began with Poitras... the first person Snowden made contact with."
That's CBC News referring to Laura Poitras, the journalist and filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated documentary Citizenfour, which offers a look at NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's first meetings with journalists.
Poitras, who's been detained and questioned by federal agents dozens of times since she began working on films exploring the post-9/11 era, spoke with CBC's Amanda Lang about the film, Snowden, and post 9/11 violations.
In the interview published Wednesday evening, Poitras said that when she first received anonymous contact from Snowden, she said she realized if the shocking claims proved to be true, then this mysterious person was taking enormous personal risks." ...
Read full article here, and see its excellent 12.5 minute interview with Laura Poitras.