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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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October 21, 2012
Women in Black report from Belgrade, Serbia
Commemorations mark significant dates of crimes committed in our name:
12th of May, Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina:: eight Women in Black activists were involved in marking of twentieth anniversary of crimes over Bosnian civilians in Bratunac. In April and May, 1992., 603 persons were executed in Bratunac, all of them of Bosnians, while during one day eighty of them were executed: women, men and children, of all ages-nine months old as well as 86 years old. The crimes were committed by members of Srpska Republic Army and Serbian regime, led by Slobodan Milosevic. Women in Black activists, have laid a wreath in the memory of the crime and as a tribute to victims. The wreath had an inscription: `Not to forget the crime in Bratunac, 1992.-Women in Black, Belgrade.`