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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 10, 2016
100,000 Italians march 'for peace, against indifference'
The Local. IT Italy's news in English
October 10, 2016
"The march condemns war around the world, and calls for international institutions and individuals to take a stand against violence of all kinds.
Participants included groups working with victims of domestic violence, the family of Giulio Regeni, the Italian phD student who was tortured and killed in Egypt earlier this year, and volunteers who work with migrants and refugees.
Organizers said that the participants came from 500 cities across Italy to walk the 24km route - an event which has been held annually since 1961.
Some carried flags representing their region or organization, while others held photographs of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and victims of bombing in Aleppo.
The president of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, opened the march with the words: "This action is all the more important because it calls on every city to feel involved in the construction of peace, which can't be the responsibility of those in power alone."
Over 100 students and teachers from Amatrice, the town which bore the brunt of the recent earthquake, were hosted in Perugia by the organizers as a gesture of solidarity and welcome.
Different religions and political parties were represented in the speeches at the start and conclusion of the march.
Perugian imam Abdel Qader said: "We hope that peace will conquer the world."
The Catholic archbishop of the Umbrian city, Gualtiero Bassetti, spoke about the atrocities taking place in Syria, telling the marchers: "Indifference is to participate in the massacres and bombardment of Aleppo, without taking the responsibility of saying 'enough'."