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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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February 20, 2012
No time for irresponsibility: learning from Kazakh women
"Living in the 1980s in West Berlin I recall visits to the Eastern part of the city on a day visa. A gray, scary, unfamiliar world took shape in front of my eyes; colorless streets, an appalling smell from coal fires and people running with faces turned downwards on sadness-emanating sidewalks.
No one dared talk with me and I was too shy to approach a soul. A silent city filled with desperation and distrust – this is my memory of East Berlin under Communist rule: the absence of individualism and pluralism.
Today I am travelling in Eastern Kazakhstan talking to strong women living in a young state, 20 years past Soviet domination. Soviet ideology was about vivid participation of women in society and at the workplace, although the reality was ‘double shifts’ -- at work, then home. However leading positions were almost always reserved for men (See: Russian women in politics and society. Ed. by W. Rule/N. C. Nooman. 1996, p. 29)." ...
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