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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
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What's New?
June 23, 2009
A report on Iran from Roya Hakakian
Dear Friends and Fellow Readers,Many of you have written me in the past few days asking for my take on thecrisis in Iran. It's hard to find words that can do the images justice. WhatI see is at once devastating and uplifting. Activists from inside thecountry are forwarding, through Facebook and other means, their videos andmessages, images of baton-wielding thugs and plainclothes men charging atthem with knives and tear gas. And yet, the crowd rises and returns to thestreets day after day to peacefully protest. We have always had a great manyreasons to stay in touch, but now, there's even more meaning to our stayingconnected, united, so that we can echo the question that Iranians are asking: Where's my vote?
Love and peace,
Roya
My Latest:
Huffingtonpost.com:
The Feast And Famine of Iran Coverage
"For the past twenty-five years, I have lived in America, first as a reluctant transplanted Iranian always looking pastward, and later, as an exile reconciled with the chronic condition that exile always brings -- most notably an arthritic heart. In the first half of my stay, I was astounded by the leanness of the news coverage of Iran which was biblically vast. In the second half, beginning in 1997, I was grieving the bounty -- so skewed, so dilettantish -- that I prayed for the lean years to return. These cycles of ebb and flow resembled the spikes and dips of a feverish fit far more than the evenness that good reporting demands. Thus rendering the coverage of Iran in American media as consistently flawed..."
Forbes: Iran And The Woman Question
By Francesca Donner17 June 2009
"Against the backdrop of Iran's political turmoil, Iranian-American journalist Roya Hakakian sat down with ForbesWoman to discuss her native country's current climate and the situation facing women--and men--in Iran today..."
Harvard's Nieman Center for Journalism:
When Eyes Get Averted: The Consequences of Misplaced Reporting
By Roya Hakakian
‘Poor reporting from and about Iran has kept the West in the dark. In this lightlessness, Iranians are rendered as ghosts.’
The Jewish Daily Forward:
Iran's Jewish Rorschach
Interview with Roya Hakakian at UC Berkley
From the Nieman Reports article: "Roya Hakakian is the author of 'Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran,' her memoir of growing up as a Jewish teenager in postrevolutionary Iran, published by Crown in 2004. She received a 2008 Guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction."