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?

March 11, 2014

On the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster

"Rosalie Bertell, a Catholic nun, in her book No Immediate Danger, wrote about the decades of suppression of the impacts of nuclear power and the reason behind it: “Should the public discover the true health cost of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperative passively with their own death.”

From the Nuclear Information and Resource Service  (NIRS):

Audio recording (mp3) of NIRS' Fukushima telebriefing March 6, 2014 featuring Aileen Mioko-Smith of Green Action in Japan, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds and Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS. Approx. 100 minutes.

Website where you can find Fukushima 3-year anniversary actions this week around the world.
Report on demonstrations in Japan: Three Years After Fukushima: 'No Nukes! Go Renewable!'  Tens of thousands rally in Tokyo and other cities across Japan to mark anniversary of an initial disaster that continues to devastate.
- Jon Queally, staff writer, Published on Sunday, March 9, 2014 by Common Dreams

 

From:March 03, 2014 Counterpunch:  Nuclear Denial: The Giant Lie About Fukushima by KARL GROSSMAN 

"With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions." more

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"We are fighting to show that there are more important things than money."

 From the film: Women of Fukushima
"Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families." (view the film at the site in link)

 

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