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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

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"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."

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The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version

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What's New?

August 31, 2014

Europeans counter NATO summit

Several major peace organizations have joined "No-to-NATO" for demonstrations, an activist camp, and conference in Wales, as the NATO summit starts in perilous times.

See:  Workshop: women and war during Counter Summit NO NEW WARS – NO TO NATO 

From the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, UK:

Join CND to protest against the NATO summit in Wales in September

"Membership of NATO binds European nations – including the UK - to internationally unpopular US foreign policy, a foreign policy increasingly unpopular around the world. NATO membership forces non-nuclear countries to host US nuclear bombs in their countries, near their populations.

This autumn, powerful world leaders will make their voices heard at the NATO gathering. We must make sure that the voice of the millions around the world who want peace and justice is also heard. A week of demonstrations and discussions is planned, see full details below."

And Ukraine?

For a good review of the critical situation there see:

Will Ukraine Bid To Join NATO Unleash 21st Century Cold War?
Published on August 29, 2014 by Common Dreams

"Experts warn that if US and Europe continue to expand NATO's reach without recognizing destructive consequences, crisis in eastern Ukraine risks serious escalation."
by Jon Queally, staff writer

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