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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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September 11, 2011
Donald Rumsfeld confronted for his complicity in war crimes
a lecture at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on Thursday evening. The discussion was hosted by the 92nd Street Y.
When the conversation turned towards Bush’s decision to invade Iraq after 9/11, Ray McGovern rose from his seat and stood in silent protest at the front of the auditorium wearing a Veterans For Peace t-shirt. He remained standing for about ten minutes until he was escorted out by six NYPD officers.
During the Question and Answer period, Rumsfeld addressed a question from the audience regarding his thoughts on those who regard him as a war criminal. He responded “I think I’ll count them as undecided.” At that point, CODEPINK activist Nancy Mancias stood up in the balcony and yelled “Wait a minute! I have over 100 arrest complaints for you” and threw 100 pink arrest complaints over the balcony, showering the auditorium. As she was dragged out by NYPD Mancias continued to yell: “It is known that you are a war criminal. It is known that there were no weapons of mass destruction. It is known that Iraq was not a threat” – her statements reference Rumsfeld’s latest book title Known and Unknown.
The women's peace group CODEPINK has made headlines with their protests of George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Karl Rove at book signings all around the country. Watch Wednesday’s coverage from the CODEPINK/Cheney book event at http://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=5953 and see how CODEPINK activists are moving Cheney's new book to the Crime section in bookstores http://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=5953
"...Dick Cheney has openly advocated torture, including describing himself as a “big supporter” of waterboarding. He was inside the Nixon Library peddling his book “In My Time”.
Both Evans and Tipton called out Cheney on the lies and criminal acts that have killed so many Iraqis, Afghans and Americans."
Source: Code Pink website, 11 Sept. 2011