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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
..."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

Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More

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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October 09, 2009

Afghan women speak out: report and video

by Jodie Evans, Co-Founder of CodePink
"Returning from my 10-day trip to Afghanistan, I pause. The United States has spent a quarter of a trillion dollars in 8 years of military action: what have we achieved? Most of the country is in worse condition, the bordering countries are less stable and death fills the air."

..."CODEPINK went to Afghanistan to hear what the women there thought about the push for more troops.  We spoke with journalists, doctors, activists, NGOs, members of government and average Afghan women.  Most of the women do not want more troops: they need support to sustain their lives.  They want the U.S. investment to reflect what is needed to bring peace.  They need investment in the people of Afghanistan.  

"For eight years, the United States has pursued a policy that has clearly failed.  We have exacerbated the poverty and suffering in Afghanistan, and they are no more safe than they were. American funds and initiatives continue to support a situation that fuels insurgency instead of a sustainable culture.  In truth, ninety percent of U.S. funding to Afghanistan is used for military:  only approximately 10% has been used for any kind of development.  

"Our vision for the future must focus on what Afghans want in their own nation, not so different from what we want for ourselves-education, jobs, healthcare, infrastructure and security.  Afghan women want us to send doctors, teachers, engineers, and business leaders, not soldiers."...

Read full report here.  

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