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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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July 01, 2009
Shahrzad News reports on protesting mothers in Iran
"The police and security forces had earlier tried to stop the mourning mothers to gather in the Park for a memorial service by violently attacking them and the large sympathetic crowd present on the scene. Those who had managed to get through the police cordons were faced with more security personnel who confiscated and smashed their mobile phones before ordering them to leave the park.
"Those refusing to leave were hit with batons and pepper spray. For the first time in recent disturbances female Baseeji militias took part in the violent assault on the bereaving mothers and were being backed up by the armed riot police believed to be from the Ashura division of the Revolutionary Guards. According to eye witness reports more than 3000 people were taking part in the protest gathering."
For news and articles from Iran with a women's focus, visit the English section of the Shahrzad News website.