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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
..."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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July 06, 2008

A Word To The Water Wise

Well known in Canada for a variety of causes, Maude Barlow has become the Al Gore of the water world.
by Vivian Song

... And while she’s been sounding the alarm for almost 20 years, her work is now starting to make timely waves.

“We are building a great water movement,” she says after a screening of the documentary FLOW, For Love of Water, in which her commentary threads the film together. Much like Barlow’s book, FLOW, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, has been described alternately as “the scariest film in the festival,” and “a passionate call to arms.” Both outline the dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable water access and corporate control of water, three water crises Barlow has identified as the future of water.

"Filmmaker Irena Salina credits Barlow’s work for inspiring her to make the documentary that was four years in the making and spanned Africa, South America, India and France. Both film and book rail against the privatization of water in developing countries and corporate giants.

“The ultimate goal of private companies is to make a profit, not to fulfil socially responsible objectives such as universal access to water,” Barlow writes. This must remain the role of governments, she says..."

Read article here.


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