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Title: [German] - Global gescheitert?: Der Westen zwischen Anmaßung und Selbsthass

Author: Susanne Schröter

Narrator: Sandra Ragg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: February 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Susanne Schröters messerscharfe Analyse über den Westen – Spiegel-Bestseller Selten schien der Westen so geschlossen wie zu Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs. Die Werte der Freiheit und Demokratie galt es gegen ein autokratisches System zu verteidigen. Doch hinter der vermeintlichen Geschlossenheit zeigten sich schnell die ersten Bruchstellen. Wie werden wirtschaftliche Zwänge mit politischen Zielen in Einklang gebracht? Wie viel sind dem Westen die eigenen Ideale wert? Dass sich dahinter ein tiefgreifendes strukturelles Problem des Westens verbirgt, zeigt die Ethnologin und Islamexpertin Susanne Schröter in ihrem neuen Buch. Angesichts der jüngsten Konflikte in der Ukraine, in Afghanistan und Mali sowie der Planlosigkeit westlicher Regierungen im Umgang mit Migrationsbewegungen, Islamismus und Cancel Culture diagnostiziert sie einen zwischen Hybris und Selbsthass gefangenen Westen, der unentwegt die Werte der Demokratie beschwört, sie aber gleichzeitig immer dann verrät, wenn es darauf ankommt. Befindet sich der Westen auf dem besten Weg, die eigene innen- wie außenpolitische Glaubwürdigkeit zu verspielen? In ihrem analytisch klugen und thesenstarken Buch gibt Susanne Schröter die Antwort.

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Title: Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System

Author: Raymond W. Baker

Narrator: Dave Clark

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Essential reading for anyone truly interested in saving democracy from the predations of kleptocracy and plutocracy.' -Charles Davidson, The Journal of Democracy This book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy. Over the last half century, capitalism has created the means for trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly-beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches flow inexorably upward and accelerate economic inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling-weakening, obstructing, and degrading-democracy. This book is not a screed against capitalism-it is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker writes, 'Democratic capitalism is, in my judgment, the best system yet devised in political economy, but dysfunctions within its capitalist component are undermining the two-part system.' Baker explains the tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, disguised corporations, anonymous trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. But he goes beyond the 'what' to the 'why,' examining the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that could go toward spreading wealth, generating public goods, and protecting the environment. Going deeper, Baker illustrates how these realities further corrode the commonwealth, with chapters devoted to the facilitating activities and impacts of banks, corporations, enabling lawyers and accountants, governments, and international institutions and concluding with the limiting role played in policy silos that are missing the bigger picture.  Finally, he provides specific, pragmatic measures to reset capitalism so that it once again contributes to shared prosperity and sustained democracy. This is a magisterial treatment of an issue that is at the root of so many problems that plague our nation and the world today.

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Title: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Series: #74 of Politics and Society in Modern America

Author: Margot Canaday

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control—immigration, the military, and welfare—and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn of the twentieth century when the state first stumbled upon evidence of sex and gender nonconformity, revealing how homosexuality was policed indirectly through the exclusion of sexually 'degenerate' immigrants and other regulatory measures aimed at combating poverty, violence, and vice. Canaday argues that the state's gradual awareness of homosexuality intensified during the later New Deal and through the postwar period as policies were enacted that explicitly used homosexuality to define who could enter the country, serve in the military, and collect state benefits. Midcentury repression was not a sudden response to newly visible gay subcultures, Canaday demonstrates, but the culmination of a much longer and slower process of state-building during which the state came to know and to care about homosexuality across many decades. Social, political, and legal history at their most compelling, The Straight State explores how regulation transformed the regulated: in drawing boundaries around national citizenship, the state helped to define the very meaning of homosexuality in America.

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Title: Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700

Author: Gabriel Glickman

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

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After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent Civil Wars at home, England was shaken by unrest and upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported to enclaves overseas. Gabriel Glickman reinstates the colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to cultural tastes and consumer habits. England was becoming an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence over wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized the later Stuart kingdom.

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Title: [Spanish] - Todos somos autodefensas: El despertar de un pueblo dormido

Author: José Manuel Mireles Valverde

Narrator: Bern Hoffman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

«Mireles no es el caudillo estoico, insensible, inmutable y de mirada fría que presentan los medios de comunicación. Este libro es una ventana al corazón de un hombre que llora, ríe, sufre y disfruta la vida» Pablo Alarcón-Cháires En 2004 Michoacán se resquebrajó. Ese año, los cárteles, insatisfechos con las ganancias obtenidas con el tráfico de drogas, diversificaron sus actividades e incursionaron en la extorsión, el secuestro, el pillaje y, en el colmo del sadismo, la violación y la tortura. Después de una década de violencia desatada, los habitantes de la zona reaccionaron. Empobrecidos por los embates del crimen, olvidados por las autoridades, furiosos y hartos, decidieron tomar la justicia en sus manos. José Manuel Mireles Valverde es una figura central en este panorama. Fundador de las autodefensas en la Tierra Caliente, luchó durante más de un año contra los cárteles, pero fue apresado en junio de 2014 durante un operativo federal duramente criticado. Entonces debió emprender otras batallas: la jurídica -por salir de prisión- y la moral -para no doblegar su espíritu-. Y triunfó. Mireles ha convertido esa 'digna rabia' en la crónica completa de las autodefensas michoacanas. En este libro, que se remonta a la herencia purépecha y la pelea que los terracalenteños dieron durante la Revolución mexicana y la Guerra cristera, el médico y comandante narra a detalle la génesis del movimiento de autodefensas, así comola adrenalina de los combates y las negociaciones frustrantes con el gobierno, que culminaron en una traición histórica.

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Title: Drawing Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas

Author: Kira Davis

Narrator: Madeline Mccray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

It is time to draw our lines in the sand as Christians and Conservatives by engaging in public conversations with truth and conviction. Kira Davis has built a brand on reaching out to the other side, on giving people space to be wrong, the space to discuss, the space to tolerate. Unfortunately, the people controlling the public conversations right now will have none of it. We're seeing the lengths they will go to and the lies they let stand in service of crushing 50 percent of this nation. They seek unity through complete elimination of the other side. There are times for compromise and times to draw a line in the sand; the latter has arrived. It is time to draw our lines as Christians and Conservatives.

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Title: Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Author: Glory M. Liu

Narrator: Kate Udall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention. Liu tells the story of how an unassuming Scottish philosopher captured the American imagination and played a leading role in shaping American economic and political ideas. She shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the nineteenth century and was firmly associated with free trade, and how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Chicago School of Economics transformed him into the preeminent theorist of self-interest and the miracle of free markets. Liu explores how a new generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to recover Smith's original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral philosopher. Charting the enduring fascination that this humble philosopher from Scotland has held for American readers over more than two centuries, Adam Smith's America shows how Smith continues to be a vehicle for articulating perennial moral and political anxieties about modern capitalism.

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Title: Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist

Author: Jenn Budd

Narrator: Jenn Budd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Jenn Budd, the only former US Border Patrol agent to continually blow the whistle on this federal agency's rampant corruption, challenges us—as individuals and as a nation—to face the consequences of our actions. Her journey offers a vital perspective on the unfolding moral crisis of our time. She also gives harrowing testimony about rape culture, white privilege, women in law enforcement, LGBTQ issues, mental illness, survival, and forgiveness.

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Title: Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism

Author: Joseph Fronczak

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created 'the left' as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism. Depression-era antifascists were populist, militant, and internationalist. They understood fascism in global terms, and they were determined to fight it on local terms. In the United States, antifascists fought against fascism on the streets of cities such as Chicago, and New York, and they connected their own fights to the ones raging in Germany, Italy, and Spain. As he traces the global trajectory of the antifascist movement, Fronczak argues that its most significant legacy is its creation of 'the left' as we know it today: an international conglomeration of people committed to a shared politics of solidarity.

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Title: [German] - Streitbar. Was Deutschland jetzt lernen muss

Author: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Narrator: Katja Pilaski

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Release date: January 20, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Wer stark ist, wird nicht angegriffenKriminelle Clans, Fundamentalismus, radikale Rechte stellen unsere Rechtsordnung in Frage. Autoritäre Regierungen unterhöhlen die EU, Russland und China gefährden die westlichen Demokratien und den globalen Frieden. Im Äußeren wie im Inneren steht Deutschland unter Druck. Wenn wir bewahren wollen, was uns kostbar ist, müssen wir uns rüsten. Dabei ist es längst nicht ausreichend, die Bundeswehr zu ertüchtigen. Es bedarf eines gesamtgesellschaftlichen Aufwachens, einer entschiedeneren Haltung, denjenigen mit Macht und Entschlossenheit entgegenzutreten, die uns bedrohen. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann macht deutlich, dass Friedfertigkeit nicht mit Gleichgültigkeit und Bräsigkeit verwechselt werden darf. Denn wir müssen bereit sein, unseren Frieden zu verteidigen.-