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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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November 05, 2009
Frida Berrigan: Arms Trade: A 'Booming' Business
"President Barack Obama recently signed into law the 2010 military budget, saying that it takes the "necessary steps toward reshaping priorities of America's defense establishment and changing the way the Pentagon does business."
"It was not quite that dramatic. For 2010, total military spending is $680 billion. For the 2009 budget, when the defense budget and war costs were added together, the total budget came to $654 billion. So, while some systems were cut, the overall budget increased by 3.9% or $26 billion. This is not the end of business as usual at the Pentagon.
"But it was (is) a beginning. The budget does accomplish the elimination of-- or deep cuts in-- about a half dozen major weapons programs. Usually cancelling even one major system is a big deal -- and it often doesn't stick due to the lobbying clout of the military-industrial-congressional complex."...
Read full article here, published on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 by Huffington Post.
Frida Berrigan is a senior program associate at the Arms and Security Project of the New America Foundation and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org).