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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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March 07, 2011
International Women’s Day in Egypt tomorrow
This video (YouTube, 8 min., first 3 minutes or so with Nawal el Sadaawi) says about itself:
The anti-government protesters who have been occupying Cairo’s Tahrir Square for more than two weeks now want to turn Egypt into a modern, progressive nation, including equal rights for men and women. One of their heroes is the renowned secular feminist Nawal el Saadawi.
From daily The Independent in Britain:
Egypt’s women plan mass march against military rulers
By Alastair Beach in Cairo
Egyptian activists have called for a “Million Women March” tomorrow after accusing the military government of forgetting about the role of women in the uprising and maintaining a “backward” political system dominated by men.
Organisers of the march say that political changes being introduced by Egypt’s Higher Military Council, which assumed power after the toppling of Hosni Mubarak last month, will entrench patriarchal systems of power which have dominated the region for years. “They are forgetting about women’s role in the revolution,” said Dina Abou El-Soud, a 35-year-old hostel owner who is helping organise the march. “I think it is because of the culture and how it used to be here.”
The demonstration, which like many of the Middle East’s pro-democracy protests is being organised on Facebook, comes after an army-appointed commission announced proposed changes to Egypt’s constitution.
The amendments, which Egyptians will be asked to approve in a referendum on 19 March, include imposing two-term limits on presidential incumbents and ditching the stifling restrictions on who can be nominated to lead the country.
The nationwide poll on the proposals will come before presidential and parliamentary elections which are scheduled to take place within the next six months.
Protests continued elsewhere. In Bahrain, thousands of Shia opposition supporters blocked the entrance to the Prime Minister’s office but failed to disrupt a government meeting yesterday as the campaign for reform in the strategic Gulf nation entered its third week. Bahrain’s Shia majority has long complained of discrimination and political persecution in the nation, which is ruled by a Sunni dynasty.
Source: Dear Kitty. Some blog. International