Global Politics Audiobooks | Politics

Prepare to embark on a captivating journey as you delve into the pages of this remarkable book. The author fearlessly explores the intricate web of the global refugee crisis, unearthing its roots, triggers, and far-reaching ramifications. Brace yourself as you are taken on a gripping expedition, dissecting numerous significant crises that have shaken the world, from the heart-wrenching Syrian conflict to the turbulent upheavals in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Venezuela, Rohingya, and Ukraine. With meticulous attention to detail, the author dissects each humanitarian emergency, uncovering the unique challenges they present and the staggering scale of displacement they have caused. Prepare to be enlightened as you witness the unraveling of these complex events, gaining a profound understanding of the plight endured by millions. Throughout the narrative, the spotlight shines brightly on the international response, revealing the heroic efforts of countless humanitarian organizations. Witness firsthand the tireless dedication and unwavering commitment as these beacons of hope extend a lifeline to those in dire need. Their vital aid and unwavering support become the catalyst for survival in the face of adversity. As you turn the final page, a resounding call reverberates within your soul. It is a call for collective action, for empathy to triumph over indifference. The author's poignant conclusion embodies a rallying cry, urging us all to unite in the face of distressing circumstances. Together, we can forge a brighter future, one that nurtures enduring solutions and brings solace to the millions affected by forced displacement. Embark now on this enthralling journey, for within these pages lies a tapestry of humanity, resilience, and the transformative power of compassion.

Dr. David K. Ewen (Author), Dr. David K. Ewen (Narrator)

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[German] - Menschenzuchthaltung

Ich frage mich, ob ein Hund sich so lange von Politikern treten lassen würde, wie es die Menschen derzeit tun Respekt, so ein Durchhaltevermögen, eigentlich unbegreiflich. Nach diversen Gesprächen mit befreundeten Psychologen wurde mir klar, dass dieses unterwürfige Verhalten seit Generationen schleichend geprägt und systematisch programmiert wurde. Die Grundbausteine dieser einer Dressur gleichenden Gedankenkontrolle werden zum Teil durch Elternhaus, Schule und Medien vermittelt. Es ist ein autoritäres, manipulatives Programm, das auf Gehorsam, Recht und Ordnung basiert, damit sich die zukünftigen Sklaven widerstandslos einer übergeordneten Autorität unterordnen. Darüber hinaus werden sie permanent in einer medialen Schleife, einer Art Hypnose, gehalten, damit sie dieses System ständig akzeptieren, verteidigen und beschützen. Die Länder, in denen diese Sklaven gehalten werden, sind nichts anderes als Zuchtfarmen für Menschen, mit Besitzern, Eigentümern und Verwaltern. Das Grandiose an diesem Wahnsinn ist jedoch, dass die Zuchttiere ihr Territorium mit ihrem Käfig, mit ihrem Leben verteidigen, andere Farben gleichzeitig angreifen und die Unterdrücker summen, die die Besitzer zu ihren Vertretern ernennen, anstatt sich von den Fesseln zu befreien und frei zu leben.

Dawid Snowden (Author), Dawid Snowden (Narrator)

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[German] - Die dreckige Seidenstraße: Wie Chinas Wirtschaftspolitik weltweit Staaten und Demokratien

Lange galt China als eine Art sanfter, schlafender Riese. Zwar war das politische System und dessen Menschenrechtsverletzungen nur schwer vereinbar mit westlichen demokratischen Werten, doch man setzte auf das Prinzip »Wandel durch Handel«. China würde sich mit steigendem Wohlstand schon öffnen. Doch das Gegenteil ist eingetreten: China verschließt sich nach außen, hat aber enorm an wirtschaftlichen und politischen Einfluss gewonnen. Bereits seit 2013 schafft die kommunistische Partei mit Krediten, Investitionen und Entwicklungsprojekten neue Absatzmärkte und hat neue Seidenstraßen erschlossen. Wer genauer hinsieht, bemerkt schnell, dass nicht nur chinesische Waren exportiert werden, sondern auch Ideologie, Dominanz und wirtschaftspolitische Abhängigkeiten. Die »neue Seidenstraße« ist ein schmutziges Projekt. Die Kommunistische Partei untergräbt demokratische Regierungen, höhlt schleichend westlich-liberale, kapitalistische Normen aus und unterstützt gleichzeitig autoritäre Regime. Menschenrechte und Umweltschutz spielen keine Rolle. Spätestens seit 2022 mit dem Beginn des Russland-Ukraine-Krieges ist deutlich, wie groß Chinas Einfluss auch in Europa und Deutschland ist. Der Journalist und langjährige China-Korrespondent Philipp Mattheis hat die Länder, durch die die neuen Seidenstraßen verlaufen, bereist: von Kasachstan bis Ungarn, von Sri Lanka bis Georgien, von Griechenland bis Deutschland entlarvt er die Wirkmechanismen und Folgen der chinesischen Wirtschafts- und Geopolitik und fordert zu politischer Verantwortung und zum Umdenken auf.

Philipp Mattheis (Author), Markus Krochmann (Narrator)

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[Portuguese] - Estado e ideologia: aparência e realidade - subsídios para uma teoria crítica do Esta

O Estado normalmente aparece na figura do Presidente da República, dos Ministros, das Forças Armadas, da polícia, dos deputados, do poder judiciário, das repartições públicas etc. Porém o Estado não são esses elementos empiricamente concretos e separados. Sua essência e unidade, na verdade, são invisíveis aos sentidos do corpo. O que é o Estado, então? O autor Alaor Caffé Alves, neste livro, faz análise crítico-dialética da forma empírica e aparente do Estado, sob o ângulo de sua manifestação ideológica, de caráter mundano e visível, como modo de ilusória instituição soberana, neutra e imparcial ao senso comum. Com tal exame, supera aquela forma superficial para mostrar sua essência oculta ou mascarada pela ideologia dominante. Nessa linha, Caffé Alves contribui para a investigação crítica das formas ideológicas pelas quais o Estado se manifesta na prática cotidiana dos homens. Mostra a dialética de sua justificação e aparente legitimidade perante a maioria dos súditos.O autor, com muita clareza e argúcia, explica as conexões intrínsecas e invisíveis do Estado com a sociedade civil dividida em classes sociais antagônicas da qual ele se origina. Assim, expõe criticamente como essa ideologia dissimula e oculta suas reais vinculações orgânicas com a estrutura social competitiva, contraditória e conflitiva da sociedade capitalista. Ao fim, faz preciosas conjecturas sobre os horizontes e o destino do Estado e do direito nas sociedades socialistas e comunistas futuras.

Alaor Caffé Alves (Author), Equipe Multicast (Narrator)

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Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses widely accepted yet misguided views in the analysis of China's economy. Huang explains that misconceptions arise in part because China's economic system is unprecedented in many ways-namely because it's driven by both the market and state-which complicates the task of designing accurate and adaptable analysis and research. Further, China's size, regional diversity, and uniquely decentralized administrative system poses difficulties for making generalizations and comparisons from micro to macro levels when trying to interpret China's economic state accurately. This book not only interprets the ideologies that experts continue building misguided theories upon, but also examines the contributing factors to this puzzle. Cracking the China Conundrum provides an enlightening and corrective viewpoint on several major economic and political foreign policy concerns currently shaping China's economic environment.

Yukon Huang (Author), James Sie (Narrator)

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Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republi

Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Nonetheless, American media coverage of China has profoundly influenced U.S. government policy and shaped public opinion not only domestically but also, given the clout and reach of U.S. news organizations, around the world. This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China-from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic-in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists. They share behind-the-scenes stories of reporting on historic moments such as Richard Nixon's groundbreaking visit in 1972, China's opening up to the outside world and its emergence as a global superpower, and the crackdowns in Tiananmen Square and Xinjiang. Journalists detail the challenges of covering a complex and secretive society and offer insight into eight decades of tumultuous political, economic, and social change. At a time of crisis in Sino-American relations, understanding the people who have covered China for the American media and how they have done so is crucial to understanding the news. Through the personal accounts of multiple generations of China correspondents, Assignment China provides that understanding.

Mike Chinoy (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)

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This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland 'Judah paints another Europe with tense and dramatic detail' - Andrey Kurkov 'Will make you lurch between fascination, laughter and tears' - Sophy Roberts What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start? In a series of vivid, ambitious, darkly visceral but always empathetic portraits of other people's lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet them. Drawn from hours of painstaking interviews, these vital stories reveal a frenetic and vibrant continent which has been transformed by diversity, migration, the internet, climate change, Covid, war and the quest for freedom. Laid dramatically bare, it may not always be a Europe we recognize - but this is Europe. Praise for Ben Judah's This Is London: 'An epic work of reportage' -The Guardian 'Eye-opening' - The Sunday Times 'Opens readers' eyes to the hardships experienced by many and ignored by most' - Independent 'Shares Orwell's appetite for documenting parts of society that are easily overlooked' - Spectator 'Full of nuggets of unexpected information about the lives of others' - Financial Times

Ben Judah (Author), Dan Connolly (Narrator)

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Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously

Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing 'morality' or 'authenticity;' it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfemi Táiwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonization' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: 'decolorizers' themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. Táiwò's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Author), Amir Abdullah (Narrator)

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Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War

Spot-on, often satirical, always insightful, contributing editor of The American Mind and mother of a brood, Peachy Keenan argues that the only way we can save our families, ourselves, and the world-even California!-is by embracing our inner domestic extremists, and sweeping failed notions of third wave feminism and identity politics nonsense into the garbage can of history. ARE YOU A DOMESTIC EXTREMIST? You might be if you have common sense. If you think there are two sexes period-and that "gender" is a grammatical term you learned studying high school French. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think "fat acceptance" is wrong and unhealthy. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think Critical Race Theory is itself racist. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think civilization depends on men and women getting married, staying married, having kids, and raising them to be hard-working, faithful, and, well, sane. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think your family is more important than your career-then you're definitely a domestic extremist, and Peachy Keenan is here to be your spokeswoman and guide. Peachy Keenan contributing editor of the American Mind and mother employs her trademark wit, humor, and insight to show we can save our families, ourselves, and the world-even California!-if we unleash our inner, instinctive domestic extremist. It begins with embracing the Domestic Extremist Manifesto™: In This House We Believe: Parents Are the Bosses of Their Kids Babies Are Good, More Babies Are Better Dating Is for Suckers Two Sexes Are Plenty Your Career Is Overrated Feminism Is how the Unpopular and Undateable Cope with Life Mainstream American Culture Destroys Families We Are Going to Win! Keenan shows how by becoming "just a little bit more domestic," putting first things first-the really important things like God, family, and neighborhood-we can win the culture war for real culture, rescue our families and ourselves from the insanity that surrounds us-and-absolutely and no fooling-save humanity itself. Are you up for it? Sure you are-and the instruction book is right here! Become a domestic extremist. (Warning: you may already be one.)

Peachy Keenan (Author), Peachy Keenan (Narrator)

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Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will

Brought to you by Penguin. It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) But it doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud to have the mother of parliaments, a shining beacon of democracy and an example to other nations. But there's an elephant in the room. At the heart of power is a single family. They weren't elected but they live off the public purse. They aren't accountable to anyone, and yet between them they are privy to more government secrets than many cabinet ministers. Divinely appointed using a special hat, the head of the family is your superior, you his subject. Apparently he is guardian of our constitution - but we're also told he wouldn't dream of interfering in politics. If you accept the monarchy, you must accept the moral compromise that comes with it, from its erosion of the principle of equality to the secret interference in our laws. But the good news is that we don't have to accept it. True democracy is within our reach. ©2023 Graham Smith (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Graham Smith (Author), Sam Swann (Narrator)

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Hamilton: Selected Writings

Alexander Hamilton in his own words. Here is a short and accessible collection of the Founding Father's most essential writings that reflects his constitutional legacy, as part of the new Penguin Liberty series. A Penguin Classic Penguin Liberty is a newly curated series of historical, political and legal classic texts relevant to constitutional rights. This collection includes key historic speeches, pamphlets, essays and letters by Alexander Hamilton, focusing on his legacy as the author of the majority of the essays of The Federalist Papers, defending the U.S. Constitution. Each Penguin Liberty volume will feature a series introduction and volume introduction by series editor Corey Brettschneider.

Corey Brettschneider (Author), Caleb Summers (Narrator)

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The No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers

America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and as a private lawyer. As Trade Representative, he fought against globalists, importers, lobbyists, foreign governments and big businesses whose interests diverged from those of the American workers. For decades, unbalanced “free” trade was the preferred option for the most powerful in Washington, and millions of ordinary Americans paid the price. Instead of prioritizing healthy American communities, good jobs, higher wages, and a promising future for our workers, Washington too often cared more about corporate profits, cheap imports and the concerns of foreign governments, including the Chinese. In return, we got cheaper coffee makers and tee shirts, while thousands of factories closed, wages stagnated, communities deteriorated, economic inequality rose in our country, and we racked up trillions of dollars in trade deficits. Part memoir, part history, and part policy analysis, No Trade is Free tells the story of how America found itself at this point and how the Trump administration took on the orthodoxy of the trade establishment, with astonishing results. With in-depth character sketches of some of the most important leaders of our time—from Donald Trump, to Xi Jinping, to Nancy Pelosi, to Andrés Manuel López Obrador—Lighthizer explains how trade negotiations actually work and why leverage is the key to success—no trade is free. This book is a wake-up call to our politicians, thought leaders, but most importantly, everyday Americans. It presents the case against the policies that have weakened America and left our families and communities behind. It argues for a worker-focused trade policy. It tells the story of our fight for every American job and how for the first time, a US administration took on China. But most importantly, it is a guide to the new world economy—one which will require a worker-focused trade policy. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Robert Lighthizer (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

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