Government Systems

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • By: Alexandra Stein
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing explains how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Nancy Fraser
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world....

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    • How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
    • By: Antony Loewenstein
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

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    • Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice
    • By: Stanley Cohen
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • By: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise....

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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
    • By: James Ball
    • Narrated by: James Ball
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

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    • Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
    • By: Bruce Dickson
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Series: The Justice System Gone Wrong, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people....

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    • Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
    • By: Bryan Caplan
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 01-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Power Systems by Noam Chomsky, read by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian....

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    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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    • How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
    • By: Andrew G. McCabe
    • Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and of the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution....

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