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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
..."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 25, 2012

Malian women oppose "proxy war" in country and region

In a manifesto to be presented to international and UN leaders before a Security Council meeting on Monday, November 26 in NYC, leading Malian women call for a negotiated peace based on a national...

November 22, 2012

From CODE PINK on Gaza

Nov. 21: Breaking news: Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza just reached a ceasefire agreement with Egyptian mediation. We are heartened that there is an end to this round of violence but we know...

November 16, 2012

"War clouds over Gaza Strip again"

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Independent reporting from Israel/Palestine: "Israel’s breaking of the ceasefire is reminiscent of what happened in 2008, when Israel launched a cross-border raid on Hamas fighters in...

November 14, 2012

The impact of austerity measures on women in Europe

"Women are the real creditors of the public debt," writes Christine Vanden Daelen of and for The Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt. "Just as structural adjustment plans have ex...

November 08, 2012

Some election reflections: USA November 2012

There's plenty of information on-line, here we present some women's victories, opinions, and referenda questions of interest. Just for starters.

November 07, 2012

Naomi Klein on geoengineering and climate change

".. an American entrepreneur named Russ George dumped 120 tons of iron dust off the hull of a rented fishing boat; the plan was to create an algae bloom that would sequester carbon and thereby comb...

November 06, 2012

The Name of the Hurricane Is Climate Change

Rebecca Solnit: "Sandy did what no activist could have done adequately: put climate change back on the agenda, made the argument for reasonably large government, and reminded us of the colossal fai...

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