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La revancha de los poderosos: Cómo los autócratas están reinventando la política en el siglo XXI

Un libro para entender cómo se obtiene, se usa, se abusa y se pierde el poder en el siglo XXI. En todo el mundo, las democracias se enfrentan a un enemigo nuevo e implacable que no tiene ejército ni armada; no procede de ningún país que podamos señalar en un mapa, porque no viene de ahí fuera, sino de aquí dentro. En lugar de desafiar a las sociedades libres con la destrucción desde el exterior, amenaza con corroerlas desde el interior. Un peligro como este es esquivo, difícil de identificar, de distinguir, de describir. Todos lo notamos, pero nos cuesta darle nombre. Se derraman ríos de tinta para definir sus elementos y características, pero se nos sigue escapando. Nuestro deber, por tanto, es nombrarlo para así comprenderlo, combatirlo y derrotarlo. ¿Qué es este nuevo enemigo que atenta contra nuestra libertad, nuestra prosperidad y hasta nuestra supervivencia como sociedades democráticas? La respuesta es el poder, en una forma nueva y maligna. En todas las épocas ha habido una o más formas de maldad política; la que estamos viviendo hoy es una variante vengativa que imita la democracia al tiempo que la socava y desprecia cualquier limitación. Parece que el poder haya estudiado todos los controles concebidos por las sociedades libres durante siglos para eludirlos y, después, contraatacar. Por eso puedo afirmar que estamos ante la revancha de los poderosos. La crítica ha dicho: «En La revancha de los poderosos, Moisés Naím, uno de los observadores más agudos de la política mundial, cataloga exhaustivamente las amenazas a la democracia por parte de dictadores, populistas y empresas durante estos últimos años, y establece paralelos perspicaces a través de ámbitos muy dispares. Una obra importante y oportuna.» Frank Fukuyama «Otro libro original de un pensador original, que ofrece una perspectiva global única sobre el populismo y el poder.» Anne Applebaum «¿Cómo se convirtió el 'fin de la historia' en el renacimiento de la autocracia? Moisés Naím aporta su análisis incisivo y su perspectiva global a la cuestión más inquietante del siglo XXI, y muestra cómo el populismo, la polarización y la política de la posverdad han impulsado el ascenso de líderes de Berlusconi a Bolsonaro, de Orban a Erdogan, de Duterte a Donald Trump. Cualquiera que se preocupe por el futuro de la verdad y la democracia debería leer este libro.» Alan Murray, director ejecutivo de Fortune Media «La revancha de los poderosos me recuerda por qué considero a Moisés Naím uno de los pensadores políticos más apasionantes y originales del mundo. Este absorbente libro explora las tendencias, a menudo contradictorias, que están remodelando el poder político, y explica que nuestro futuro depende de cómo se resuelvan. Una lectura imprescindible.» Madeleine Albrigh, ex secretaria de Estado de Estados Unidos «Moisés Naím es un agudo observador de la realidad sociopolítica contemporánea: a nadie puede extrañar que haya escrito un libro brillante sobre los riesgos a los que se enfrenta la democracia liberal.» Manuel Arias Maldonado, El Español «Naím ofrece una visión convincente y accesible del nuevo autoritarismo. Los lectores estarán de acuerdo con que el tema es de urgente preocupación.» Publishers Weekly «Un miembro distinguido del Fondo Carnegie para la Paz Internacional hace sonar las alarmas sobre el ascenso mundial de líderes autoritarios. Un retrato legítimo e inteligente de la expansión global del autoritarismo y sus peligros.» Kirkus Reviews

Moisés Naím (Author), Carlos Vicente (Narrator)

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A More Perfect Union (Briefs): Reimagining the United States as a European Union-style Federation.

In 2021, YouGov/Bright Line Watch found that 47% of Democrats on the West coast and 66% of Republicans in Texas and the South supported breaking up the United States into new, regional unions. In this book, the author ties these trends to the current challenges facing the United States. Increased battles over life and death issues on hot topics such as abortion, gun control, immigration and many more are increasingly impossible for the federal government to manage. We explore how a Constitutional amendment to form these new nations could work. Each nation would start with a copy of the existing Constitution, and still be able to cooperate on strategic goals through a new American Union. Topics covered include a potential timeline, exploring how the current functions of the federal government would be managed, retaining the dollar & Federal Reserve, military assets, and much more. This book is a collection of quick, easy to read briefs outlining the concept.

Alexander Moss (Author), Alexander Moss (Narrator)

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The Ugandan Tales

'The Ugandan Tales' is set in Uganda and about the struggles of ordinary Africans against post independence African rulers that preach freedom and emancipation but have turned into oppressors. This collection of poetry dives deep into topics of police brutality, social injustices, and oppression through the landscape of the tortured cities. Ordinary people seek to reassert their rights against an intransigent regime that is determined to keep them oppressed. The poems chronicle everyday struggles that are faced at the hands of fellow Africans masquerading as Pan Africanists. Through peaceful and non violent means, a new generation of people is now taking a stand against social, political and economic segregation.

Victor Rumanyika (Author), Hidden Gems Literary Emporium, Kaila Boulware Sykes (Narrator)

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A Rude Life: The Memoir

Vir Sanghvi's has been an interesting life - one that took him to Oxford, movie and political journalism, television and magazines - and he depicts it with the silky polish his readers expect of him. In A Rude Life, he turns his dispassionate observer's gaze on himself, and in taut prose tells us about all that he's experienced, and nothing more for he's still a private man. He unhurriedly recounts memories from his childhood and college years, moving on to give us an understanding of how he wrote his biggest stories, while giving us an insider's view into the politics and glamour of that time.

Vir Sanghvi (Author), Ashish Bhandari (Narrator)

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Yugoslavian Genocide: Causes, Facts, Death Toll, and War Criminals

The Yugoslavian Genocide is hard to explain. So many factors have contributed to the war, and eventually, the genocide in Bosnia, that many UN soldiers didn’t even know what to do with it. A lack of response, though, made the problem worse. And looking back on some of the cowardice and indifference, I’m sure many countries involved would like to go back in time and do it over. A combination of historical aspects such as the division of religion, the world wars, the Iron Curtain, and the fall of the Soviet Union were part of what led to a conflict that lasted for years in this sensitive region in Europe. Throughout the Bosnian War of 1992-- 1995, the Yugoslavian or Bosnian genocide describes either the Srebrenica massacre or the larger criminal activities against mankind and ethnic cleaning project performed by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) in areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) More than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were killed in Srebrenica in the year 1995, while another 25,000-- 30,000 Bosniak people were by force expelled. Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats were targeted in ethnic cleaning in VRS-controlled areas. Extermination, illegal confinement, mass rape, sexual assault, abuse, ransack and damage of personal and public property, and inhumane treatment of people; targeting of politicians, intellectuals, and experts; illegal deportation and transfer of citizens; illegal appropriation and plunder of real and personal effects; damage of houses and services The activities met the requirements for 'guilty acts' of genocide, and 'certain physical criminals had the purpose to physically get rid of the safeguarded populations of Bosnian Muslims and Croats,' according to the report. Let’s take a look at what happened, what caused it, and what it led to.

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Emerging India: Economics, Politics and Reforms

Written by an eminent economist, Bimal Jalan, Emerging India: Economics, Politics and Reforms talks about India's growth from the post reform 1991 era to the modern days and the various challenges plaguing various arms of the government. In this book, Jalan praises the democratic setup that runs this complex and diverse country. The book is divided into four different parts and each part is devoted to a different section. The first part of the book speaks about the multiple authorities governing a ministry. He speaks about the growth of regional parties and the impact it has had on policy formulation. Jalan says that the coalition era has sparked off a trend where parties generally don't think too far ahead into the future and plan well. In the second section, Jalan talks about the need to further open up the economy and invest in better health care. He also talks about the role that he expects science and technology to play in shaping the lives of the citizens. The third section is devoted to banking. The author talks about the Asian crisis and how India managed to cope with the crisis and what role the Reserve Bank of India played in helping India tide over the crisis. He stresses on the need for ethics in the banking sector if the country is to do well in the long run. Lastly, he goes through various economic policies and reforms that have shaped the Indian economy, right from the seventies to the new millennium. Bimal Jalan produces a detailed account of the Indian economy and the way it has functioned and the various obstacles in front of it.

Bimal Jalan (Author), Abhishek Sharma (Narrator)

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Nur wer sich ändert, wird bestehen

In seinem klar und leicht verständlich formulierten Buch legt Merz dar, wie die Zukunft der deutschen Wirtschaftspolitik aussehen sollte. An aktuellen Problemen wie etwa der Verarmung der Mittelklasse belegt er seine politischen Ideen und Vorschläge, wie etwa die Abschaffung des Kündigungsschutzes und die Erhöhung der Merhwertsteuer. Dabei verliert er nie den Leser und die Linie seiner eigenen Partei, der CDU, aus dem Blick und macht deutlich, wie seiner Meinung nach nur umfassende Reformen einen nachhaltigen Wohlstand in Deutschland sichern können.-

Friedrich Merz (Author), Thomas Hollaender (Narrator)

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Pol Pot: The Murderous Leader of the Khmer Rouge regime

He sure had a funny name. And what’s so strange, is that during most of the biggest events in Cambodia, he wasn’t really there. It seems like he was some big orchestrator hiding behind the curtains and silently directing officers to make it all happen. The Cambodia genocide that killed an estimated 2 million of their own citizens has been partially attributed to this maniac. Pol Pot was a Cambodian political leader and revolutionary who worked as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 till 1979. He was a key member of Cambodia's communist company, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 to 1997, and acted as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. He was a Marxist-- Leninist and a Khmer nationalist. Cambodia was changed into a one-party communist state under his management, and the Cambodian genocide happened. Learn more now.

Kelly Mass (Author), Chris Newman (Narrator)

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Holocaust: World War 2 History of Its Causes and Consequences

Most people know what the Holocaust was. They have at least a vague image of what transpired in Europe during the 1940s. Still, the details may be blurry. So, let’s take a look at history and the events that shocked the world. And even though this was clearly not the first genocide in the world, it was one of particular proportions and scale, and therefore noteworthy. At the time of The Second World War, the Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide of European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies killed around 6 million Jews in German-occupied Europe, representing about two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The killings happened in pogroms and mass shootings, and also through a technique of extermination by labor in prisoner-of-war camp and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, mostly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibór, Beec, Chemno, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. The Holocaust is one of those things that people remember as something they want to “never again” happen to humanity. Let’s hope that they can hold up to this ideal. Either way, let’s dive into the past and explore what led up to it, the magnitude of the murders and the methods the Nazis used.

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Armenian Genocide: Atrocities, Deportation, and Plunder by the Convicts Army

Yes, even before World War II, there was a genocide, and not too long before that, actually. We are talking about the Armenian deportations that killed between 1 and 2 million innocent civilians, an atrocity the Turkish government still doesn’t fully acknowledge. Rock bands like System of a Down have complained in their music about it, historians have turned pieces of evidences into large books, and when you talk to Armenians, they still remember what their ancestors told them about it. At the time of World War I, the Ottoman Empire committed the Armenian genocide, which led to the organized death of around one million ethnic Armenians. It was primarily achieved by mass executions, death marches resulting in the Syrian Desert, and the pushed Islamization of Armenian women and kids, led by the judgment Committee of Union and Development (CUP). The Ottoman Empire was collapsing, and in a cruel act of desperation and vengeance, they decided to take out their empirical frustrations on the Armenians and “take care of the Armenian problem.” Mass rapes, murder, deportation, theft, robberies, starvation, and mayhem was the consequence. It became one of the ugliest faces of the First World War in history. Become more familiar with the gruesome events in in Eastern Anatolia, which is now divided into Turkey and Armenia. Learn what moved the perpetrators, what they did, and what the aftermath was like. You can do all that through this concise book.

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Paul Joseph Goebbels: Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich

There are doers and there are preachers. The people who were executing orders or abusing people in World War 2 wouldn’t have been able to commit any atrocities if the country hadn’t warmed up to an inhumane narrative. That’s where propaganda came in. Propaganda has long been part of various countries and societies to make the population believe something, and to find culprits, create feelings of animosity, and glorify local leaders or military campaigns. In World War 2, it was obviously used to promote the supposed inferiority of the Jewish race and convince a big part of the German population that they were better off dead. Goebbels was one of those brainwashers who advocated that narrative with propaganda material in the media. From 1933 through 1945, Paul Joseph Goebbels functioned as the Gauleiter (district head) of Berlin, the Nazi Party's senior propagandist, and the Reich Minister of Propaganda. He was another one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most dedicated acolytes, acknowledged for his public speaking capabilities and his extreme antisemitism, which he often uttered. He promoted for gradually even worse discrimination, including but not limited to the Holocaust's killing of Jews. What led to all this? How did he become so good at it? Why was he so fanatic? And what did he do that led to the terrible acts during the Holocaust others committed against the Jews in Europe? Read about it or listen to an audio version of this book to find out what made Joseph Goebbels gruesomely unique in his lies.

Kelly Mass (Author), Chris Newman (Narrator)

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Rwandan Genocide: Hutus, Tutsis, and United Nations Soldiers

I guess during the time I was struggling with middle school peers and worried about what other girls thought of my clothes, something nasty happened approximately 6,500 miles away, which is only an 8-hour flight from where I used to live. Who would have thought that even in the 90s, such atrocities would be committed? The movie Hotel Rwanda has depicted some sad displays of human cruelty, although the brutality of it has mostly been censored for the sake of wider audiences. When you read the descriptions of the Rwandan genocide, and try to imagine the scope of the death toll and methods being used to commit the war crimes, you can’t help but feel deeply saddened and disgusted by what human people are capable of. Throughout the Rwandan Civil War, between April seventh and July fifteenth, 1994, the Rwandan genocide happened. Equipped militias murdered members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, and some moderate Hutu and Twa, throughout about 100 days. According to the most regularly accepted academic estimates, between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis passed away. The death toll (consisting of Hutu and Twa casualties) is approximated to be around 1,100,000. How did all of this happen? How did it get so far? And happened during and after this short time period, in which so many lives were claimed? Let’s find out in this comprehensive book about the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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