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[Spanish] - ¿Qué sigue?: 20 lecciones para ser ciudadano ante un país en riesgo

LLEGA A LA PRESIDENCIA GRACIAS AL INE, PERO BUSCA DINAMITAR TODA INSTITUCIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA… PROMETE EL FIN DE LA GUERRA, PERO DEJA UN PAÍS MÁS VIOLENTO, MÁS MILITARIZADO, Y MÁS INSEGURO… ANUNCIA EL FIN DE LA CORRUPCIÓN, PERO PERSISTE LA IMPUNIDAD ANTE EL SAQUEO… OFRECE EL FIN DEL CAPITALISMO DE CUATES, PERO GENERA UN CONTUBERNIO ENTRE SUS ÉLITES POLÍTICAS Y ECONÓMICAS... ¿QUÉ SIGUE? Denise Dresser presenta una lectura urgente y necesaria: López Obradorsedujo a millones con su promesa de salvaguardar la democracia y ser un antídoto contra la regresión política y social de México. Hoy la distancia entre aquella esperanza y la realidad es insalvable. AMLO ha erosionado, con palabras y hechos, la institucionalidad deficitaria, reemplazándola con un ejercicio de gobierno centrado sólo en él, rodeado de verde olivo. Por improvisación, por prisa, y por mala administración, heredará bombas de tiempo a su sucesora. Este libro es un manual para ejercer una ciudadanía valiente y lúcida ante el autoritarismo de AMLO y de cualquier nueva Tlatoani por venir. Contiene recomendaciones para resistir, para reconstruir y para armar futuros posibles y sostenibles. No puedes gobernar para “el pueblo” con métodos anti-democráticos y abusivos. No te dejes seducir. No te dejes comprar. No permitasque dejen de rendirte cuentas o traten de evitar la transparencia. No te vuelvas cómplice del despojo y el arrebato de tus derechos. ¿Qué sigue? La responsabilidad de asegurar un México moderno, próspero e incluyente también es tuya. Ejerce tu poder de control y castigo para rescatar al país.

Denise Dresser (Author), Denise Dresser (Narrator)

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Utopia

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, 'A little, true book, both beneficial and enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia') is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. Famous works of the author Thomas More: Published during More's life A Merry Jest, Utopia, Latin Poems, Letter to Brixius, Responsio ad Lutherum, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, Supplication of Souls, Letter Against Frith, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, Apology, Debellation of Salem and Bizance, The Answer to a Poisoned Book.

Thomas More (Author), Jowanna Lewis (Narrator)

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[German] - Hybris und Nemesis: Wie uns die dunkle Seite der Macht in den Abgrund führt. Einsichten a

Wie aus dem Ideal der Demokratie die Ideologie der Elitenherrschaft wurde Die Risiken und Gefahren der militärischen und ökologischen Zerstörung sind heute so groß, dass sie die menschliche Zivilisation schlechthin bedrohen. Die Herausforderung eine gute, lebenswerte und wohlgeordnete Weltgemeinschaft herzustellen, stellt sich heute drängender denn je. Doch das einzige Mittel, auf das sich eine Hoffnung gründen lässt, steht uns heute de facto nicht mehr zur Verfügung: die Demokratie. Der Kognitionspsychologe Rainer Mausfeld argumentiert, dass Demokratie zu einer leeren Worthülse geworden ist: War Demokratie einst ein Instrument zur Einhegung von Elitenverkommenheit, wurde uns die zivilisatorische Leitidee von Demokratie enteignet, verfälscht und in ihr Gegenteil verkehrt: in die Herrschaft von Eliten. In einem großen Bogen zeigt Mausfeld auf, wie es zu dieser verheerenden Entwicklung kommen konnte und was wir tun müssen, um dem zivilisatorischen Abgrund zu entkommen. Dabei reicht seine Analyse bis zurück in die Antike: Wir müssen nicht weniger als Recht und Scham wiederentdecken, zwei Affekte, die essentiell mit der wahren Idee von Demokratie verbunden sind.

Rainer Mausfeld (Author), Klaus B. Wolf (Narrator)

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The City of The Sun

The City of the Sun is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work. The work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition. A Latin version was written in 1613–1614 and published in Frankfurt in 1623. The book is presented as a dialogue between 'a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain'. Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis in Timaeus, it describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common. It also resembles the City of Adocentyn in the Picatrix, an Arabic grimoire of astrological magic. In the final part of the work, Campanella prophesies—in the veiled language of astrology—that the Spanish kings, in alliance with the Pope, are destined to be the instruments of a Divine Plan: the final victory of the True Faith and its diffusion in the whole world. While one could argue that Campanella was simply thinking of the conquest of the New World, it seems that this prophecy should be interpreted in the light of a work written shortly before The City of the Sun, The Monarchy in Spain, in which Campanella exposes his vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy.

Tommaso Campanella (Author), Joe Phoenix (Narrator)

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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and their efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation and make the federal government more robust. Their opponents organized as the Antifederalists, who feared the corruption and encroachments on liberty that a strong central government would surely bring. The Antifederalists lost but regrouped under the new Constitution as the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, whose bruising contest against Federalist John Adams marked the climax of this turbulent chapter of American political history. The country's first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way towards global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic.

H. W. Brands, H.W. Brands (Author), Robert Fass (Narrator)

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The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy

From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the 'Patriot' movement. So how did we get here? Award-winning journalist David Neiwert-who been following the rise of these extremist groups since the late 1970s, when he was a young reporter in Idaho-explores how the movement was built over decades, how it was set aflame by Donald Trump and his cohorts, and how it will continue to attack American democracy for the foreseeable future. Neiwert especially studies how the Pacific Northwest has long been a breeding ground of extremist violence, from the time when neo-nazis migrated to the area from southern California in the 1970s, through the great battles in Portland and Seattle and neighboring towns over the last decade. Laying out how these groups organize their terroristic violence and attacks on democratic institutions at every level-including local, state, and federal targets-Neiwert details what their strategies and plans look like for the foreseeable future.

David Neiwert (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Michael Portillo: On Politics: A BBC Radio Collection

Michael Portillo presents these specially selected shows exploring the history of democracy and the modern political system In a parliamentary career spanning over 20 years, Michael Portillo served as a Conservative MP and held numerous Cabinet posts. Few people are better placed to comment on politics than him, and in these thought-provoking programmes, he gives us his take on the development of democracy and contemporary political theory. In the three-part series Democracy on Trial, Portillo investigates the difficult and dangerous global journey taken by this fragile ideal over 2,500 years, and the surprisingly tenuous grip it holds upon the world today. From Athens in the fifth century BC to the present day, he examines the effectiveness of a form of government we take for granted, and analyses its rise, fall and future. For Whom the Division Bell Tolled sees him looking at the history and peculiarities of the back-bencher, asking historians whether these traits have been present since the very first Parliaments in the 1300s. Across three episodes, he traces the origins of the back-bench revolt, recalls the good and noble works of back-benchers from the past, and wonders whether those on the back bench have always been more interested in keeping their jobs than changing the world. In The Right Stuff, Portillo considers the lasting influence of the author and philosopher Ayn Rand, questioning whether her work remains a blueprint for those on the political right. Talking to contemporaries and critics, he probes the origins and impact of Rand's writings, and assesses how her controversial ideas relate to the current political landscape. Capitalism on Trial finds him pondering years of bailouts, stagnating growth and market instability, and asking whether free-market capitalism is looking a little tarnished. Over two programmes, he talks to leading thinkers including Amartya Sen, Will Hutton and Gillian Tett as he weighs up the costs and benefits of the economic system that governs our lives. Finally, in Things We Forgot to Remember: The 1945 Labour Government, Portillo looks back at Clement Attlee's postwar government, querying how radical their agenda really was and how much our collective memory of it is due to myth-making by subsequent Labour administrations. Production credits First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: Democracy on Trial Episode 1 11 May 2010 Episode 2 18 May 2010 Episode 3 25 May 2010 Produced by Philip Sellars and Julia Johnson For Whom the Division Bell Tolled Episode 1 14 May 2008 Episode 2 21 May 2008 Episode 3 28 May 2008 Produced by Philip Sellars The Right Stuff 11 November 2008 Produced by Owen McFadden Capitalism on Trial Episode 1 27 September 2011 Episode 2 4 October 2011 With Amartya Sen, Will Hutton, Ha-Joon Chang, Gillian Tett, Nigel Lawson and Hernando De Soto Produced by Julia Johnson Things We Forgot to Remember: The 1945 Labour Government 6 May 2007 With Denis Healey, Peter Carrington and Tony Benn Produced by Julia Adamson © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Michael Portillo (Author), Michael Portillo (Narrator)

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Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP

An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and his unexpectedly diverse coalition included millions of nonwhite voters, a rarity for the modern Republican party. In 2020, Trump defied expectations and few journalists, strategists, or politicians could explain why Trump had nearly won reelection. Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and one of the country's leading experts on political targeting, technology, and demography, has the answers—and the explanation may surprise you. For all his apparent divisiveness, Trump assembled the most diverse Republican presidential coalition in history and rode political trends that will prove significant for decades to come. The shift is profound: seven in ten American voters belong to groups that have shifted right in the last two presidential elections, while under three in ten whites with a college degree belong to groups that are trending left. Together, this super-majority of right-trending voters forms a colorblind, populist coalition, largely united by its working-class roots, moderate to conservative views on policy, strong religious beliefs, and indifference to or outright rejection of the identity politics practiced by the left. Not all these voters are Republican, and in certain corners of the coalition, only a small minority are. But recent elections are pointing us towards a future where party allegiances have been utterly upended. The Party of the People demonstrates this data. Ruffini was as wrong as every pollster in 2016 and spent the intervening years figuring out why and developing better methods of analyzing voters in the digital age. Using robust data, he shifts you away from the complacent, widespread narrative that the Republican party is a party of white, rural voters. It is, but more importantly for its longevity, it's a party of non-college educated voters. And as fewer voters attend college, the Republican party shows no signs of stagnation. With rich data and clear analysis, Party of the People explains the present and future of the Republican party and American elections.

Patrick Ruffini (Author), Stephen Graybill (Narrator)

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The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

Brought to you by Penguin. Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government? Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Féin, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete , transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement. Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland's biggest and most elusive political story. * * * 'A powerful portrait of the inside world of an elusive political party ... an important work' - Sunday Independent 'Eye opening and brave ... carefully researched, judicious and packed with revelatory detail' - Fergal Keane 'An explosive read ... important and revelatory' - Business Post ©2023 Aoife Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Aoife Moore (Author), Roisin Mcgowan (Narrator)

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Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

Ted Cruz (Author), Timothy Andrés Pabon (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Estados Fallidos: El abuso de poder y ataque a la democracia

En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha. Estados fallidos son, para Chomsky, los que carecen de capacidad para proteger a sus ciudadanos de la violencia y se consideran más allá del derecho. Estados Unidos supone un peligro cada vez mayor para sus habitantes y el mundo en general, ya que sus propias instituciones democráticas atraviesan una grave crisis y sus políticas y prácticas sitúan el mundo al borde del desastre nuclear y medioambiental. Contundente, lúcido y meticulosamente documentado, Estados fallidos ofrece un exhaustivo análisis de una superpotencia global que desde hace tiempo se arroga el derecho de remodelar otras naciones. En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha.

Noam Chomsky (Author), Sergio Lonardi (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La sombra del dictador: Una memoria política de la vida bajo el régimen de Augusto Pinoc

Un notable retrato, a mitad de camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, sobre el Chile de Pinochet. Publicado originalmente en inglés en 2009, este libro que retrata la vida de un militante socialista que el 11 de septiembre se encontraba en la calle con un revolver y dinamita, ofrece nuevas luces sobre la vida política y cotidiana de Chile a partir de 1973 poniendo énfasis, sobre todo, en los múltiples alcances de la figura del dictador: su propio golpe dentro de la junta militar, su rol en el desarrollo económico impulsado por los Chicago Boys, la represión, el intento de asesinato en 1986, la derrota electoral de 1988, su detención en Londres y finalmente su caída en desgracia luego del caso Riggs. Pero sobre todo, el enfoque de esta indagación es el rol de los Estados Unidos como parte activa de esta historia.

Heraldo Muñoz (Author), Tomás Cebral (Narrator)

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