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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 28, 2010
Action Alert – ONLINE DEMONSTRATION for Peace in Korea - Sun 11/28 and Wed 12/1
From The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space:
...the blogosphere is already full of hate-mongering rhetoric calling for “retaliation” after the tragic incident on Yeonpyong Island earlier this week.
Two civilians and two South Korean soldiers have died. We say NO MORE LOST LIVES.
We need all those who stand for peace to call for de-escalation on the Korean peninsula and an immediate end to the U.S.-South Korean war games.
On Sunday, November 28, from 12 noon to 3 pm EST (9 am to 12 noon PST) and Wednesday, December 1 from 7 pm to 10 pm EST (4pm to 7 pm PST)
Three page fact sheet here: KOREA CRISIS: Basic Facts and Historical Context
Join the National Campaign to End the Korean War (www.endthekoreanwar.org) in a coordinated "online demonstration" -
1. Barrage the White House and State Department with emails and urge President Obama and State Secretary Clinton to immediately stop the joint U.S.-South Korean war maneuvers, and sign a Peace Treaty to end the state of war that has existed for sixty years on the Korean peninsula- www.whitehouse.gov/contact
contact-us.state.gov
2. Post replies on online media sites and blogs where they are discussing the issue and beat back the war-mongering rhetoric with calls for de-escalation and a peaceful resolution. Some suggested sites are -
3. Post links to articles calling for diplomacy on listserves, blogs, facebook, twitter -
• "North Korea's Consistent Message to the U.S." By former President Jimmy Carter in the Washington Post, November 24, 2010www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112305808.html
• “Retaliation, Retaliation" by Paul Liem of the Korea Policy Institute, Nov 25, 2010 www.kpolicy.org
• "Crisis in Korea?" by John Feffer, Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus in the Huffington Post, Nov 23,2010www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/crisis-in-korea_b_787639.html
• Tim Shorrock Posted on the Daily Beast.www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-24/korea-standoff-barack-obama-only-has-one-choice/
• Tim Shorrock on Democracy Nowwww.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/tim_shorrock_direct_talks_with_north
• “A Return Trip to North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Complex” By Siegfried S. Heckerwww.nautilus.org/publications/essays/napsnet/reports/a-return-trip-to-north-korea2019s-yongbyon-nuclear-complex
• “Review U.S. Policy toward North Korea” Bob Carlin and John Lewiswww.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/21/AR2010112102276.html
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet(at)mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
See also: Another important link, form S. Korean NGOs is:
"The Need for Talks to Avoid Escalation of the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula"
http://blog.peoplepower21.org/English/20986