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Title: [German] - Die neue Weltordnung

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Oliver Rohloff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Die Neue Weltordnung ist im politischen Betrieb ein mittlerweile oft benutztes Schlagwort. Es steht für Konzepte, international eine einheitliche Friedens- und Rechtsordnung durch ein System der kollektiven Sicherheit und Kontrolle zu etablieren. Vordenker gibt es einige. Einer der bekanntesten dürfte jedoch H.G. Wells (1866-1946) sein. Ein britischer Autor, der für seine science-fiction-Romane wie 'Krieg der Welten' (1897), 'Die Zeitmaschine' (1895) oder 'The First Men in the Moon' (1901) zu Weltruhm gelangte. Obwohl seine Romane durchaus noch populär sind, verfasste er darüber hinaus eine Unmenge an Sachbüchern, die sich mit tagesaktuellen Themen befassten. Ein großes Anliegen waren ihm die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg in den kriegführenden Staaten, die in seinen Augen mit den Friedensverhandlungen von 1919 nicht etwa den Frieden sicherten, sondern nur eine Verschnaufpause zwischen den Kriegen war und das obwohl der 1920 gegründete Völkerbund eigentlich für die Errichtung des Weltfriedens ins Leben gerufen wurde. Ein stumpfes Schwert, wie Wells hier darlegt. Die seiner Meinung nach gescheiterten Bemühungen um einen ewigen Frieden und seine Verbesserungsvorschläge inkl. einem Vorschlag für eine neue Menschenrechtserklärung finden Eingang in diesem Hörbuch. Wells fordert nichts geringeres als die Vollsozialisierung der Welt und geht mit dem damals praktizierten sowjetischen Kommunismus/Sozialismus hart ins Gericht, begrüßte jedoch durchaus die kleinen und großen Maßnahmen aller kriegführenden Regierungen die seiner Meinung die Welt in Richtung Kollektivierung führten. Wenn wir wollen, so Wells, dass auf der Welt Frieden herrschen soll, dann gibt es nur ein Mittel, um diesen Zustand herbeizuführen. Es ist die Bündelung aller 'menschlichen Angelegenheiten' unter einer Regierung und die Errichtung eines Weltstaates. Auf dem Weg dorthin gilt es einige Hindernisse aus dem Weg zu räumen. Das Institut des Privateigentums muss nach seiner Auffassung z. B. strengstens überdacht werden und auch für die Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen hat er Pläne, die weit über das hinaus gehen, was die meisten Regierungen willens sind, ihren jungen Bürgern aufzubürden. Geht es ihm um den Weltfrieden oder verfolgt Wells, der für einige Jahre Mitglied der Fabian Society war, ein anderes Ziel mit seinen Ideen? Ob das in den Bereich der Verschwörungstheorie gehört oder nicht, können Sie selbst entscheiden. Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, sich von diesem Weltordnungsentwurf zu überzeugen und urteilen Sie selbst, wieviel davon bereits umgesetzt wurde oder politisch geplant ist, umgesetzt zu werden.

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Title: Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Author: Alex Joske

Narrator: James Daniel Burkdoll

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Spies and Lies a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future. Mere years ago, Western governments chose to cooperate with China in the hope that it would liberalize, setting aside concerns about human rights abuses, totalitarian ambitions, and espionage. But the axiom of China's 'peaceful rise' has been fundamentally challenged by the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian behavior under Xi Jinping. How did we get it wrong for so long? Spies and Lies pierces the Ministry of State Security's walls of secrecy and reveals how agents of the Chinese Communist Party have spent decades manipulating the West's attitudes—from an Australian prime minister to the US Congress, prominent think tanks, and the FBI—about China's rise. Through interviews with defectors and intelligence officers, classified Chinese intelligence documents, and original investigations, the book unmasks dozens of active Chinese intelligence officers along with global MSS fronts, including travel agencies, writers' associations, publishing houses, alumni associations, newspapers, a Buddhist temple, a record company, and charities.

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Title: Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America

Author: Nicholas Tochka

Narrator: Derek Dysart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: August 22, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free. Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll, a truth shaped by the Cold War anxieties of the fifties, the countercultural revolutions (and counter-revolutions) of the sixties and seventies, and the end-of-history triumphalism of the eighties. How did rock 'n' roll become enmeshed with so many different competing ideas about freedom? And what does that story reveal about the promise-and the limits-of rock music as a political force in postwar America?

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Title: [German] - Maos deutscher Topagent: Wie China die Bundesrepublik eroberte

Author: Bernd Ziesemer

Narrator: Michael J. Diekmann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Release date: August 17, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Wer den Einfluss verstehen will, den China auf die deutsche Wirtschaft ausübt, muss den Namen Gerhard Ludwig Flatow kennen. Er war wohlhabender Stahldirektor und Kommunist, Abenteurer und Lobbyist, sprach fließend chinesisch und wurde in den Fünfziger und Sechziger Jahren zum wichtigsten Agenten der Chinesen in Deutschland. Dabei hat er es verstanden, völlig unbekannt zu bleiben – bis der Wirtschaftspublizist und Chinakenner Bernd Ziesemer die Fäden zusammenführte und entdeckte, dass ein Maoist und ein Industrieller ein und dieselbe Person waren. Nach jahrelanger Recherche, Auswertung von Geheimdienst- und persönlichen Dokumenten und vielen Gesprächen präsentiert Ziesemer hier die spektakuläre Geschichte einer einzigartigen Persönlichkeit, in der sich zugleich eine ganze Epoche deutsch-chinesischer Beziehungen bis heute spiegelt.

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Title: [Spanish] - Premoniciones: Cuando la alerta climática lo justifica todo (When the Climate Alert Justifies Everything)

Author: Alfonso Tarancón, Javier Del Valle

Narrator: Fernando Simón

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Algo catastrófico está a punto de suceder; la Tierra se está convirtiendo en la nueva religión a la que los políticos deben rendir culto en las cumbres del clima y en sus discursos diarios. Si en la Edad Media se visitaban líderes religiosos, ahora se visitan plantas de reciclaje y de energías renovables. En lugar de advertir que el fin del mundo llegará tras desatar la cólera de Dios, se pregona el fin del planeta por la insensatez del ser humano. De unos años a esta parte, el cambio climático se ha convertido en un argumento polémico de constante aparición en medios, al que se le tiende a achacar el origen de la práctica totalidad de nuestros problemas actuales. Pero ¿está justificada tan abrumadora presencia? Y lo que es más importante, ¿cuánto de premonición y cuánto de rigor científico hay en este fenómeno? En 'Premoniciones', los científicos Alfonso Tarancón y Javier del Valle arrojan una buena dosis de cordura sobre un tema que, a pesar del empeño por parte de ciertos sectores en afirmar lo contrario, no está ni mucho menos claro. En sus páginas, examinan las variaciones del clima a lo largo de los siglos, y dilucidan la a menudo inexistente relación entre multitud de problemas medioambientales, sociales o económicos. Una fresca y necesaria mirada a un fenómeno que la ciencia no respalda con la rotundidad que muchos dan por sentada.

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Title: The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us

Author: Carrie Gress, Ph.D.

Narrator: Monroe Jillian

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life, while simultaneously devaluing the typical attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.

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Title: 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News

Author: Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Narrator: Patricia Shade

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today's rampant polarization and scandal politics—the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is. She describes how cable innovations took on network broadcasting using market forces, giving rise to a more decentralized media world. Brownell shows how cable became an unstoppable medium for political communication that prioritized cult followings and loyalty to individual brands, fundamentally reshaped party politics, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval. 24/7 Politics reveals how cable TV created new possibilities for antiestablishment voices and opened a pathway to political prominence for seemingly unlikely figures like Donald Trump by playing to narrow audiences and cultivating division instead of common ground.

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Title: Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Author: Mark A.R. Kleiman, Beau Kilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Should we legalize marijuana? If we legalize, what in particular should be legal? Just possessing marijuana and growing your own? Selling and advertising? If selling becomes legal, who gets to sell? Corporations? Co-ops? The government? What regulations should apply? How high should taxes be? Different forms of legalization could bring very different results. This second edition of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know® discusses what is happening with marijuana policy, describing both the risks and the benefits of using marijuana, without taking sides in the legalization debate. The book details the potential gains and losses from legalization, explores the 'middle ground' options between prohibition and commercialized production, and considers the likely impacts of legal marijuana on occasional users, daily users, patients, parents, and employers—and even on drug traffickers.

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Title: Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement

Author: Thomas Zeitzoff

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A novel explanation for why politicians insult, accuse, and threaten their opponents, even though voters say they don't like it. Why do politicians engage in nasty politics? Why do they use insult, accusations, intimidation, and in rare cases violence against their domestic political opponents? In Nasty Politics, Thomas Zeitzoff answers these questions by examining this global political trend in the US, Ukraine, and Israel and looking at how key leaders such as Trump, Zelensky, and Netanyahu use it. Drawing on surveys, case studies, in-depth interviews, databases of nasty politics, and large social media datasets, Zeitzoff shows that across all three countries, the public generally doesn't like nasty politics and it increases the threat of political violence. But it can also be a way to signal toughness to voters, which is especially important in threatening times. Featuring a powerful theory of why nastiness takes hold in democratic polities, Nasty Politics highlights how it influences the kinds of politicians who run for office and deepens our understanding for why so many politicians now rely on outsized anger and withering insults for political gain.

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Title: Korea: A New History of South and North

Author: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history. Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day. A small country caught amongst the world's largest powers—including China, Japan, Russia, and the United States—Korea's fate has been closely connected to its geography and the strength of its leadership and society. This comprehensive history sheds light on the evolving identities of the two Koreas, explaining the sharp differences between North and South, and prospects for unification.