105 Results for : oligarchs
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The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times best-selling author, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America - and how we can win the latest round.Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they’re nearly there, thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentially bought. They put Trump and his political allies into office and support a vast network of think tanks, publications, and social media that every day push our nation closer and closer to police-state tyranny. The United States was born in a struggle against the oligarchs of the British aristocracy, and ever since then, the history of America has been one of dynamic tension between democracy and oligarchy. And much like the shock of the 1929 crash woke America up to glaring inequality and the ongoing theft of democracy by that generation’s oligarchs, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has laid bare how extensively oligarchs have looted our nation’s economic system, gutted governmental institutions, and stolen the wealth of the former middle class.Thom Hartmann traces the history of this struggle against oligarchy from America’s founding to the United States’ war with the feudal confederacy to President Franklin Roosevelt’s struggle against “economic royalists” who wanted to block the New Deal. In each of those cases, the oligarchs lost the battle. But with increasing right-wing control of the media, unlimited campaign contributions, and a conservative takeover of the judicial system, we’re at a crisis point. Now is the time for action, before we flip into tyranny. We’ve beaten the oligarchs before, and we can do it again. Hartmann lays out practical measures we can take to break up media monopolies, limit the influence of money in politics, reclaim the wealth stolen over decades by the oligarchy, and build a movement that will return control of America to we ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228564/bk_acx0_228564_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Evil That Men Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
Robert Gleason brings his A game to The Evil That Men Do, a terrorism thriller audiobook steeped with equal parts terror and wit. Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth’s democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over. The people worldwide, however, are rising up, and they demand that the UN seize and redistribute all that illegal filthy lucre. But it will not be easy. The world’s oligarchs will not go gentle. Mikhail Putilov, Russia’s strongman; J. T. Tower, the American president; and Wahid al-Waheed, the Saudi ambassador to the United States will do anything to stop and destroy this global expropriation moment - even if it means nuking the UN. Only three people can stop them: the crusading, muckraking, investigative journalist Jules Meredith; ex-CIA agent Elena Moreno; and her boyfriend, the ex-Special Forces operative turned cybersecurity billionaire John C. Jameson. If these three fail, democracies around the world will die, and the age of the great global oligarchs will begin. If these the three friends fail, the nuclear fireballs will blaze, the UN will burn, and a new dark ages will ensue. People everywhere must hold their breath and wait. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Graybill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003494/bk_aren_003494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Butler to the World: The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crime
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role," said Dean Acherson, a former US secretary of state. Acheson's line has entered into the canon of great quotations: but it was wrong. Britain had already found a role. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet. Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs. The Biden administration is putting corruption at the heart of its foreign policy, and that means it needs to confront Britain's role as the foremost enabler of financial crime and ill behavior. This book lays bare how London has deliberately undercut U.S. regulations for decades, and calls into question the extent to which Britain can be considered a reliable ally.- Shop: buecher
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Rich Russians
Rich Russians ab 24.49 € als epub eBook: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Media Power in Indonesia
Media Power in Indonesia ab 62.99 € als Taschenbuch: Oligarchs Citizens and the Digital Revolution. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Illegal Action, Hörbuch, Digital, 278min
Liz Carlyle has been transferred to Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. Although the department has downsized since the end of the Cold War, there are still spies: including Russian spies who now keep an eye on the international financial community as well as the wealthy, influential Russian "oligarchs" in London. Liz is assigned to stop a Russian government plot to "silence" one of these oligarchs, Nikita Brunovsky, who is an increasingly vocal opponent of the Putin regime. Almost simultaneously, Liz and Peggy learn of the presence of an Illegal Support officer in London, one Vladimir Rykov, who is putatively attached to the Russian embassy. An Illegal is someone who operates (often for many years) under a completely fabricated identity - and Rykov, it seem, has been sent to London to help an Illegal now based there. To protect Brunovsky from his Kremlin foes, Liz goes undercover and joins the oligarch's retinue. As she tries to determine who around the Russian might be willing to betray him, she has to consider too whether this traitor may not also be the Illegal she and Peggy are seeking. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Fielding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000279/bk_rhuk_000279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Media Power in Indonesia
Media Power in Indonesia ab 183.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Oligarchs Citizens and the Digital Revolution. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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EZOP WITH cerebral palsy. Book two
EZOP WITH cerebral palsy. Book two ab 64.99 € als Taschenbuch: IN THE COUNTRY OF OLIGARCHS. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Butler to the World (eBook, ePUB)
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS SEEN ON LED BY DONKEYS'Brilliant' Marina Hyde, Guardian'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best'Peter Pomerantsev'Horribly brilliant'James O'BrienHow did Britain become the servant of the world's most powerful and corrupt men? From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to enabling Gibraltar to become an offshore gambling haven, meet Butler Britain...The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.Butler to the World reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. We pride ourselves on values of fair play and the rule of law, but few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. We are now a nation of Jeeveses, snobbish enablers for rich halfwits of considerably less charm than Bertie Wooster. It doesn't have to be that way.- Shop: buecher
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Media Power in Indonesia
Media Power in Indonesia ab 41.49 € als epub eBook: Oligarchs Citizens and the Digital Revolution. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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