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?

July 08, 2009

Do plants have rights?

Swiss biologist, chemist and long-time critic of genetic engineering Florianne Koechlin tells about new research and discoveries that open a new discussion on the dignity of plants.

She says about genetically modified organisms (GMOs): "The risk argument is still important, but we can’t talk only about potential risks for 20 years. There also have to be opposing concepts and alternatives for a modern future."  She presents research showing that plants communicate, interpret, learn from their experience and remember. This means we have to change our view of plants as simple 'machines.'

Read the 7 page interview from early 2009 recently translated by WLOE e.V. members into English and Spanish:

Interview: The Dignity of the Lima Bean

Florianne Koechlin presents more of her research and views in the documentary: Women from Planet Diversity.

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