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El control y utilización de los secretos sobre los represores y colaboradores de la dictadura (los archivos de la policía política del franquismo y las actividades de sus informantes) han sido clave durante décadas para que las elites del régimen consolidasen y perpetuasen su enorme poder.
De hecho, la rocambolesca trayectoria policial y empresarial de José Manuel Villarejo Pérez constituye el hilo conductor y el mejor largometraje documental...
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The world is in danger of plunging into the abyss of another world war. This time it will be even more terrible than the two world wars that had wreaked so much havoc and misery in the past. This time, it may be a nuclear holocaust and the end of human civilization.In many countries around the world, including many that claim to be democratic, political power is largely concentrated in the political elite and the group of powerful capitalists. The...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization's original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC's false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the...
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Khadija--an underage teen forced into a brothel that caters to horny Washington, DC, dignitaries--runs afoul of a newly elected senator with ties to big corporations and the KKK. She thwarts his attempt to poison the humble former senator, whose octoroon wife befriends her and the new senator's distraught Russian-born wife whom he's stalking. After the former senator's wife announces her candidacy for the new senator's seat and her unswerving duty...
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Aquellos maravillosos años bien podría ser un texto de ciencia ficción si no fuera porque los hechos y personajes que en él se retratan son tan reales como la crisis económica que padece España.
Con la premisa de recorrer la geografía de la corrupción española de la mano de sus protagonistas y casos más sonados, este volumen se sirve de grandes dosis de ironía y humor para contar la tragicómica historia reciente de un país vapuleado...
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Why is the NSA spying on all 316 million Americans and the world. So, the USA's big corporations could put billions of dollars into their pockets for spying on all innocent American and the world.
That is why NSA, National Security Administration, is listening constantly and stores billions of innocuous conversations. Why? Not by an accident, there was a reason for that. What was the reason behind mass spying on the all-innocent population? A simple...
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"La policía no hace nada. La policía es toda transa. Agarran a un narco a mitad de cuadra y lo sueltan en la esquina". "Quiero 3000 pesos o te tiro abajo el kiosco". "La policía bardea a los pibes. También les meten droga. Y algunos pibes trabajan para la cana". "Decile que tiene quince minutos para irse a otro lado, o le rompemos las piernas". En una polifonía reveladora y brutal, estas voces —de vecinos, de dealers, de policías— se entremezclan...
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"I'VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE."
So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division's finances.
It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from one account to another in what the university's treasurer described as...
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From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world.
In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped out. He examines corruption through politics and history-from Babylon to modern-day U.S. organized crime and the great market collapses-and concludes...
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The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad-and at home
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and...
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In "Shifting Allegiances: The Struggle for Control and the 2024 Precipice," the undercurrents of political power play out against the backdrop of an imminent election that promises to be as tumultuous as it is transformative. The book delves deep into the strategic maneuvers within America's corridors of power, where the 'Patriots' and the establishment-labeled as the 'Deep State'-vie for the soul of the nation.
Through the lens of an insider's perspective,...
73) What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't: a Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
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"Engaging and inspiring . . . Reading this book should make you want to vote."—Barack Obama
In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average educated American find a reliable source that's free of political spin? What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what,...
In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average educated American find a reliable source that's free of political spin? What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what,...
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“When money talks, democracy walks. Read this book to learn how We the People can take back our elections from the billionaires.” —Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and author of The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. And ever since the Citizens United decision threw out campaign spending limits abridgments of free speech,...
Special-interest money is destroying our democratic process. And ever since the Citizens United decision threw out campaign spending limits abridgments of free speech,...
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2018.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies and scandals that appear in the media almost daily. The...
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A New York Times Best Seller! New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about! In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we've all heard and read about in the history books. He takes a look at the wide gap between what the government knows and what is revealed to the American people. The media...
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No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives.
Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. And indeed, his power brokering, love of glamour, controversy, and notoriety made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From his role in the Rosenbergs' trial and as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Senate hearings through his...
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Former congressman and conservative talk radio host Joe Walsh reveals why Donald Trump is the exact threat our Founding Fathers feared in F*ck Silence.
Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come. But he believes that no right-wing policy victory is worth the loss of our very democracy.
In this clear-eyed and unsparing book, Walsh makes the case that Trump has more in common with the foreign dictators he praises publicly...
Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come. But he believes that no right-wing policy victory is worth the loss of our very democracy.
In this clear-eyed and unsparing book, Walsh makes the case that Trump has more in common with the foreign dictators he praises publicly...
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A "superb account" of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation's northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).
On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an enormous explosion sank Russia's most prized nuclear submarine, the Kursk. When Vladmir Putin's men failed to rescue the 118 young submariners trapped under the icy Barents Sea and...
On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an enormous explosion sank Russia's most prized nuclear submarine, the Kursk. When Vladmir Putin's men failed to rescue the 118 young submariners trapped under the icy Barents Sea and...
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Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history.
Today's political class—in both parties and at all levels of government—shows a blatant disregard for both the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution. More and more Americans are fed up, and from this sweeping sense of discontent and anger the
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