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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 08, 2011
Nawal El Saadawi: "We became one in the street"
Video interview and written text here, at Democracy Now! 7 February 2011
Renowned feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi was a political prisoner and exiled from Egypt for years. Now she has returned to Cairo and is participating in the protests in Tahrir Square.
She spoke to Democracy Now! about the feeling of community that emerged in Tahrir Square, particularly after the violence last Wednesday night.
NAWAL EL SAADAWI: The men on horses were shooting everywhere and throwing—I don’t know—fireballs. I don’t know. I was seeing fireballs in the sky. I don’t know what was happening, because the men carried me away. They just carried me away from the scene. They told me, "You are 80. You cannot stay here." So they carried me away from that. It was amazing. They were like my sons and daughter, you know, because they were surrounding me.
Blood was in the square. But the doctors and the group, the committee, the health committee, the doctors’ committee, took them, because there is now a hospital next to the Midan, where all doctors volunteered. And people, suddenly, in few minutes, people brought cotton and bandage and medicine. In few minutes, can you imagine? So we became like a city, square now, Midan Square, like a city, with its hospitals and with its police and everything.
I am very confident that we are winning. And now I feel the power of the people. I know the power of the people, but I never, never felt the power of the people like those days and especially tonight. The whole Midan is surrounded by the tanks, by the military tanks, and also by the group that—it’s like our police, you know? Police of the people, police of the demonstrations, who are not allowing anybody to enter until they see their card, etc., so that nobody of the gangs enter. It’s like a feast, like a festival. People are dancing, saying poetry. They are singing. Poets are writing poetry and reciting. So it became a cultural event, a culture event. It is amazing what’s happening tonight. What happened tonight was amazing. ...