Special coverage in the Trump Era

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.

What's New?

February 08, 2013

New report on USA torture with international help

"'Globalizing Torture' is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit."

On February 7th, President Obama's nominee for Director of the CIA went before a Senate committee before confirmation. In their hour-long news broadcast the next day, Democracy Now! featured experts on torture, the CIA and US use of drones, showing how weak the questioning of John Brennan really was. CODE PINK members disrupted the hearing five times, demanding that the names of the victims of US strikes be known, recounting the number of civilian deaths etc., until the entire room was emptied and CODE PINK members arrested or forbidden entry. Good for you, CODE PINK! WATCH: Demonstrators interrupt Brennan confirmation hearings (MSNBC footage from CODE PINK website)

The Feb. 6th show featured "Amrit Singh, senior legal officer at the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative... (and) author of the new report "Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition." (The full report can be downloaded from that link.)

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