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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 11, 2010
Genetic Engineering is not an Alternative to Sustainable Agriculture to Feed the World
Genetic Engineering and Food Sovereignty:
"In connection with the work of the EED in the global south, we have collected the experiences of partners and EED seconded professionals overseas and looked into the question of whether or not genetic engineering is necessary in agriculture and nutrition in order to fight rural poverty and hunger.
The case studies of our practical development work in this Reader document some of the problems with rural development if it relies too much on genetic engineering. The experiences also show that this genetic engineering has not only been pretty ineffective thus far, but actually puts other forms of agriculture, especially agro-ecological approaches, at risk.
Genetic engineering is no alternative to an agro-ecological approach, which is shaped by principles of diversity and improved with the involvement of local farmers. The agro-ecological participatory approach not only promises better yields together with improved environmental conditions, its distribution effect is also more advantageous: it is of direct benefit to poor peasant farmers.
Most of the articles in this volume arise from a four-year joint work project coordinated by the EED, in which 18 partners from all continents and all departments in the EED were involved. This programme formed a mutual exchange among all participants, a new relationship with our partners, but also as part of a new South-South Dialogue among our partners. Its theme focused not only on the use of agro-ecological methods, but also on the influence that national legislation can exert on genetic engineering law. It was also involved in joint lobbying at the international level on questions of biosafety and sustainable agriculture. We look back on this complex, but ultimately rich learning process with gratitude. Our special thanks go to our overseas partners, who proved to us that development policy is no longer a one-way street. This process of mutual learning must continue!"
"In special cases we can distribute the 122 page book to highly interested people on request (please mail to: vertrieb(at)eed.de).
The reader can be downloaded here.