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Title: [German] - Offshore - Wie Vermögensverwalter Reichtum tarnen und einen neuen Kolonialismus schaffen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Brooke Harrington

Narrator: Nicole Engeln

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Release date: September 18, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

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Ein verblüffendes Hörbuch über die unheimliche Macht der Vermögensverwalter Ihre wichtigste Eigenschaft ist die Diskretion, und ihre Aufgabe ist es, den Reichtum der Reichsten unsichtbar zu machen - während sie ihn mehren. Ganze Teams von Offshore-Experten arbeiten Tag und Nacht daran, für ihre Kunden Steuerschlupflöcher zu finden, Gesetze zu umgehen, kreative Lösungen zu finden. Der Begriff Steuerparadies, der in vielen europäischen Sprachen für Offshore verwendet wird, wirkt angesichts der libertären Anarchie, die hier herrscht, geradezu verharmlosend. Die renommierte Soziologin Brooke Harrington bringt Licht in die faszinierende Schattenwelt der Vermögensverwalter. Sie beschreibt, wie das System funktioniert, das sie geschaffen haben, und welche Folgen es für alle anderen hat: Wir sollten uns um diese klandestinen Experten viel mehr Sorgen machen als um die Ultra-Reichen selbst.

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Title: Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

Author: Brooke Harrington

Narrator: Jennifer Walden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way. In Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, sociologist Brooke Harrington reveals how this system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend. Through interviews with dozens of wealth managers in nineteen countries, Harrington uncovered how this global network of offshore financial centers arose from the remnants of colonialism and has created a new, hidden imperial class. This engrossing deep dive reveals what offshore finance costs all of us, and how it has colonized the world—not on behalf of any one country, but to benefit a largely invisible empire of a few thousand billionaires, who help themselves to the best society has to offer while sticking us with the bill. As politicians struggle to address the deepening economic and political inequality destabilizing the world, Harrington's exposé of the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

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Title: The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy

Author: Natalie Foster

Narrator: Leanne Woodward

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed, by our government, for everyone. But isn't this pie-in-the-sky thinking? Not by a long shot, as this provocative new book reveals. As it stands, our current economic system is chock full of government-backed guarantees, from bailouts to bankruptcy protection, to keep the private sector in business. So why can't the same be true for the rest of us? Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible—and ready to implement—in twenty-first-century America. The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift the terms of debate, moving us from the expired and defunct assumptions of no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that works for all of its people.

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Title: To Run The World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

Author: Sergey Radchenko

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 30 hours 42 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

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What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev's failed attempts to reinvent Moscow's claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.

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Title: [French] - L'art du contre-interrogatoire: Avec les contre-interrogatoires de témoins importants dans des affaires célèbres

Author: Francis L. Wellman

Narrator: Farah Azzoug

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Release date: September 16, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Dans 'L'Art du contre-interrogatoire', Francis L. Wellman nous invite à pénétrer dans l'esprit d'un avocat lors d'un procès. Au-delà de la simple maîtrise juridique, c'est un véritable jeu d'échecs qui se joue en salle d'audience. Chaque question posée est soigneusement calculée pour mettre en lumière les contradictions, les hésitations ou les mensonges du témoin. Wellman nous dévoile les subtilités de cette stratégie, nous montrant comment un interrogatoire bien mené peut influencer le cours d'un procès. Ce livre est bien plus qu'un simple manuel technique ; c'est une exploration de la psychologie humaine. En effet, le contre-interrogatoire est autant un art qu'une science. Il s'agit de déceler les émotions, les motivations et les biais cognitifs qui peuvent influencer les réponses d'un témoin. Si vous souhaitez comprendre les rouages de la justice et les mécanismes de la persuasion, 'L'Art du contre-interrogatoire' est un ouvrage indispensable.

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Title: [German] - Die Täuschung: Angela Merkel und ihre Deutschen

Author: Eckart Lohse

Narrator: Patrick Twinem

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Versäumnisse aus 16 Jahren Merkel werfen Fragen auf. Hier sind die Antworten. Deutschland ist enttäuscht und Merkels Politik auf vielen Feldern gescheitert: Russland, Energieversorgung, Verteidigung, Integration. Der klimafreundliche Umbau der viertgrößten Volkswirtschaft ist steckengeblieben. Was wie Stabilität aussah und wofür Deutschland international beneidet wurde, war vielfach auf Kante genäht. Eckart Lohse begleitet Merkel seit ihren Bonner Jahren journalistisch. Für dieses Buch hat er mit zahlreichen Politikern über das gesprochen, was Merkel angetrieben und gebremst hat. Seine Erkenntnis: Anpassung um des Machterhalts willen hat das Regierungshandeln der Ostdeutschen geprägt. Ihr fehlten die Ideen, das Land in die Zukunft zu führen. In der Ära Merkel hat Deutschland Teile seiner Zukunft verschlafen. Dieser investigative Report zeigt, wie und warum Eckart Lohse beobachtet die Bundespolitik und Angela Merkel seit 30 Jahren für die FAZ Ernüchternd aber fair. Für alle, denen die Autobiographie Merkels nicht genügt Exklusive Interviews: Merkels politisches Umfeld offen wie selten zuvor »Zum Ende Ihrer Kanzlerschaft hat Merkel den russischen Präsidenten Putin als sehr gefährlich eingeschätzt. Aber in den zwanzig Jahren davor habe ich das nie von ihr gehört.« Horst Seehofer »Merkel wollte beweisen, dass die Ostdeutschen es genauso gut können wie die Westdeutschen.« Reiner Haseloff »Merkel hat sich ein charismatisches Image zugelegt aus nicht charismatischen Bestandteilen. Angela Merkel hat Grundsätze, hat sich aber dafür entschieden, pragmatische Politik zu machen, statt Überzeugungen durchzusetzen.« Roland Koch »Dass sie in der Flüchtlingskrise die Grenzen nicht geschlossen hat, war in der Akutsituation 2015 nachvollziehbar. Sie hat danach aber nicht Sorge dafür getragen, dass es bei vielen den Eindruck erweckt hat, alle könnten kommen – ganz nach dem Motto ›Germany is open‹ .« Wolfgang Schäuble »Nord Stream 2 nicht auszubauen, wäre eine leichtere Entscheidung gewesen als etwa das Durchsetzen der Agenda 2010. Ich denke, dass der Einfluss der Wirtschaft größer war als alles andere.« Joachim Gauck

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Title: Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Author: Ilan Pappe

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US, and others In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby changed the map of the Middle East. Zionists exerted pressure on the Congress, cracked down on dissent in the Labour Party, and relentlessly smeared critics. Groups funded by the Israeli state pushed for unprecedented military aid, recognition of unlawfully occupied territories, and the erasure of Palestinian rights. Lobbying for Zionism shows us how a dangerous consensus was built—and how it might be dismantled.

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Title: Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America

Author: Mel Bunce, Martin Scott, Kate Wright

Narrator: Tom Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael Pack, a right-wing documentarian and close friend of Steve Bannon, to lead the US Agency for Global Media—the independent federal agency overseeing US-funded international media. During Pack's seven month tenure, more than thirty whistleblowers filed complaints against him, and a judge ruled that he had infringed journalists' constitutional right to freedom of speech. How did such a major international public service media network become intensely politicized by government allies in such a short time, despite having its editorial independence protected by law? Capturing News, Capturing Democracy puts these events in historical and international context—and develops a new analytical framework for understanding government capture and its connection to broader processes of democratic backsliding. Drawing from in-depth interviews with network managers and journalists, and analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce analyze how political appointees, White House officials, and right-wing media influenced VOA—changing its reporting of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election.

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Title: Undermining the U.S. Constitution: How the communist manifesto of 1848 blueprints the actions of the democratic party

Author: Diane S. Vann

Narrator: Kimberly Miller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

As a nurse I have been in situations where patients learned very bad news about the state of their health, news that was not received well by them, their families, or even their medical team. When preparing this book, my feelings were much the same as when I was in those situations. The bad news about the health of our nation is, like cancer in a patient's body, communism (also known as 'Marxism') has grown in the United States. Like cancer, it started with an unnoticed seed and grew insidiously with little sign or symptom. Now like cancer, communism is on the brink of overwhelming us. Because I know that knowledge of their cancer is essential to my patient's first step towards survival, I believe that knowledge of our communism is essential to the United States of America's first step towards survival. So within this book, I describe: how I learned about the symptoms (The Real Communist Threat Witnessed); the disease (the Introduction and Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Communist Manifesto); the signs and symptoms and the treatment and cure (Constitution versus Communist Manifesto: The War within America). Extremist Socialists, also known as Communists, like Extremist/Radical Islamists believe their ends justify their means (that is: lying, cheating, stealing, and killing). Beware of their joint product, Interfaith Dialogue.

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Title: [Portuguese] - Autoestima e Inteligência Emocional Construindo uma Imagem Positiva de Si Mesmo

Author: Max Editorial

Narrator: Thalita

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 49 minutes

Release date: September 5, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A autoestima é a percepção que temos de nós mesmos, incluindo nossos pensamentos, sentimentos e comportamentos. Uma autoestima saudável é essencial para o bem-estar emocional e psicológico. Pessoas com autoestima elevada têm uma visão positiva de si mesmas, acreditam em suas capacidades e são capazes de lidar com os desafios da vida. A inteligência emocional é a capacidade de reconhecer, compreender e gerenciar nossas próprias emoções, bem como as emoções dos outros. Uma inteligência emocional saudável nos permite ter relacionamentos mais saudáveis, lidar com o estresse de forma eficaz e tomar decisões mais acertadas. Este ebook irá explorar a relação entre autoestima e inteligência emocional. Ao longo dos capítulos, você aprenderá: O que é autoestima e inteligência emocional; Como a autoestima e a inteligência emocional se influenciam; Estratégias para melhorar a autoestima e a inteligência emocional. Autoestima: O que é e como funciona? A autoestima é um conceito complexo que é influenciado por uma variedade de fatores, incluindo: Nossas experiências de vida; Nossas crenças sobre nós mesmos; Nossas interações com os outros. A autoestima pode ser dividida em dois componentes: A autoestima positiva: é a crença de que somos valiosos e capazes. A autoestima negativa: é a crença de que não somos valiosos ou capazes. Aprenda Muito Mais...