Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It Author: Elie Honig Narrator: Elie Honig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' #1 ON COSMOPOLITAN'S 11 BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOKS TO ADD TO YOUR TBR PILE IN 2023 CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds. How does he get away with it? That question, more than any other, vexes observers of and participants in the American criminal justice process. How do powerful people weaponize their wealth, political power, and fame to beat the system? And how can prosecutors fight back? In Untouchable, Elie Honig exposes how the rich and powerful use the system to their own benefit, revealing how notorious figures like Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill Cosby successfully eluded justice for decades. He demonstrates how the Trump children dodged a fraud indictment. He makes clear how countless CEOs and titans of Wall Street have been let off the hook, receiving financial penalties without suffering criminal consequences. This doesn’t happen by accident. Over the four years of his administration, Donald Trump’s corruption seemed plain for all to see. The former president obstructed justice, flouted his responsibility to the Constitution, lied to the American people, and set the United States on a dark path to disunity and violence. Yet he has never been held accountable for any of his misdeeds. Why not? Untouchable holds the answer. Honig shows how Trump and others use seemingly fair institutions and practices to build empires of corruption and get away with misdeeds for which ordinary people would be sentenced to years behind bars. It’s not just that money talks, Honig makes clear, but how it can corrupt otherwise reliable institutions and blind people to the real power dynamics behind the scenes. In this vital, incisive book, Honig explains how the system allows the powerful to become untouchable, takes us inside their heads, and offers solutions for making the system more honest and fairer, ensuring true justice for all—holding everyone, no matter their status, accountable for their criminal misdeeds.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of “The Big Lie” Author: David Becker, Major Garrett Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and the nation's foremost elections expert David Becker completely upend The Big Lie that has infected the Far Right with firsthand stories of election officials like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, election director Thomas Freitag. And they reveal the concrete evidence proving that 2020 may have been the most secure US election ever. But Garrett and Becker go beyond the key players from all six swing states, the pre-election litigation that clarified the rules for both parties, and the fully auditable and verifiable ballots used. They lay bare the methods being undertaken right now to undercut faith, belief, and effectiveness of elections, identifying the places where the most dire actions have been taken since 2020—where election laws have been changed; or election officials been hounded out of office, retired out of frustration/fatigue, or been replaced by pro-Trump political figures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment Author: Brad Snyder Narrator: James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court’s principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings true. A pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal who rejected shifting political labels, Frankfurter advocated for judicial restraint―he believed that people should seek change not from the courts but through the democratic political process. Indeed, he knew American presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson, advised Franklin Roosevelt, and inspired his students and law clerks to enter government service. Organized around presidential administrations and major political and world events, this definitive biography chronicles Frankfurter’s impact on American life. As a young government lawyer, he befriended Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, and Holmes. As a Harvard law professor, he earned fame as a civil libertarian, Zionist, and New Deal power broker. As a justice, he hired the first African American law clerk and helped the Court achieve unanimity in outlawing racially segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education. In this sweeping narrative, Brad Snyder offers a full and fascinating portrait of the remarkable life and legacy of a long misunderstood American figure. This is the biography of an Austrian Jewish immigrant who arrived in the United States at age eleven speaking not a word of English, who by age twenty-six befriended former president Theodore Roosevelt, and who by age fifty was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s most trusted advisers. It is the story of a man devoted to democratic ideals, a natural orator and often overbearing justice, whose passion allowed him to amass highly influential friends and helped create the liberal establishment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting China Wrong Author: Aaron L. Friedberg Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the existing international system. To the contrary: China today is more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad, and more obviously intent on establishing itself as the world's preponderant power than at any time since the death of Chairman Mao. What went wrong? Put simply, the democracies underestimated the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party. For far too long, the United States and its allies failed to take seriously the Party's unwavering determination to crush opposition, build national power, and fulfill its ideological and geopolitical ambitions. In this powerfully argued study, Friedberg identifies the assumptions underpinning engagement, describes the counterstrategy that China's Communist Party rulers devised in order to exploit the West's openness while defeating its plans, and explains what the democracies must do now if they wish to preserve their prosperity, protect their security, and defend their common values.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602795 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America Author: David E. Bernstein Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A call for the separation of race and state, backed by a deep dive into the surreal world of racial classification in America. Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, they are ubiquitous in American life. Applying for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizenship, government contracts, and much more involves checking a box stating whether one is Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. While reviewing the surprising history of American racial classifications, Classified raises questions about the classifications’ coherence, logic, and fairness; for example: Should Pakistani, Chinese, and Filipino Americans be in the same category despite their obvious differences in culture, appearance, religion, and more? Why does the government not allow Americans to classify themselves as bi- or multi-racial? How did the government decide that a dark-complexioned, burka-wearing Muslim Yemini should be classified as generically white, but a blond-haired, blue-eyed immigrant from Spain should be classified as Hispanic and treated as a member of a minority group? Why does the government require biomedical researchers to classify study participants by the official racial categories, when the classifications have no scientific basis? In an increasingly diverse society with high rates of intergroup marriage, the American system of racial classification is getting even more arbitrary and absurd. With rising ethno-nationalism threatening democracy around the world, it’s also dangerous. Classified argues that the time has come to consider abolishing official racial classification and replace it with the separation of race and state.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China Author: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a 'superpower marathon.' Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint? The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. China is at a perilous moment: strong enough to violently challenge the existing order, yet losing confidence that time is on its side. Witness its aggression toward Taiwan, its record-breaking military buildup, and its efforts to dominate the critical technologies that will shape the world's future. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real. America, Brands and Beckley argue, will still need a sustainable approach to winning a protracted global competition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment Author: Mary Ziegler Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party 'A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.' —Kirkus Reviews The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work. The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in US politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America Author: Kurt Schlichter Narrator: Damon Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Humor and polemics from one of America's most quotable pundits. A call for renewal and a howl of laughter and derision at the woke mob that seeks to stand in the way of a great nation's patriotic resurgence. Fans of Mark Levin, Matt Walsh, and Ben Shapiro will love it! In 1991, the smoldering ruins of Saddam Hussein’s regime testified to America’s unchallenged might. Having defeated one of the world’s largest armies in a matter of days, the United States looked forward to a new century of peace and prosperity. Thirty years later, a ragtag Taliban chased us out of Afghanistan in a humiliating rout. At home, our cities are cesspools of homelessness and crime. The former land of opportunity seems to be in irreversible decline. How did we suffer such an unimaginable fall? And is our current impotence permanent? With his trademark wit, Kurt Schlichter—warrior, lawyer, and commentator—makes a compelling case that America’s decline is not irreversible. No Pollyanna, he offers a sobering catalogue of the dangers ahead, from subjugation to China to the poverty of socialism. Even civil war. But Schlichter was among the U.S. forces that took down the tyrant of Iraq in 1991. Having seen American greatness in action and appreciating the virtues that produced it, he knows that decline is a choice—a choice that we need not make. Sometimes mordant, often humorous, always incisive, Schlichter shows that our resilience is far from spent. American society is uniquely blessed with the ingredients of greatness. A pushback is coming. Schlichter offers no guarantees but something more important—hope.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Employment Law: Very Short Introduction Author: David Cabrelli Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In today's society, work takes up a vast proportion of the time and energy of ordinary people. Although use of the phrase 'work-life balance' is now commonplace in the media and ordinary conversation, people work longer hours than ever before. However, rather than purely a means to an end in terms of supporting oneself financially, the workplace is a place to develop skills and talents and build lasting friendships. For these reasons, people want to know about their rights in the workplace. Issues of equal pay, discrimination, discharge/dismissal, and redundancy are prevalent within the media, and there is a growing public appetite for knowledge of the law governing the employment relationship. This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the main kinds of employment rights and labor laws found in many countries. It unpicks and evaluates some of the assumptions underpinning contemporary attitudes to such rights and laws in order to measure whether they are warranted. Throughout it also considers the economic, political, sociological, and social justifications for employment rights and laws.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La casa gris: Todo lo que revela el mayor escándalo obradorista Author: Raúl Olmos Narrator: Bern Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La Casa Gris reveló un rostro muy distinto de la 4T. Evidenció que abundaba la riqueza donde se exigía austeridad, que imperaba el ocultamiento donde se presumía transparencia, que la suciedad prevalecía donde se pregonaba pulcritud y que la hipocresía anidaba en el palacio de la pureza. Sin embargo, eso es sólo la punta del iceberg. Lo más importante de La Casa Gris es que descubre y resume un modo de operar y de gobernar. Las irregularidades en torno a la mansión de Houston son prácticamente las mismas que se han documentado en otros escándalos de Morena y el círculo íntimo del presidente: conflictos de interés, recursos de procedencia inexplicable, influyentismo, uso político de las instituciones, amiguismo, descalificación sistemática, nepotismo, opacidad… Este libro lo demuestra. Raúl Olmos -quien encabezó la investigación sobre la residencia texana- actualiza, enriquece y profundiza el reportaje original, pero también indaga en los negocios y los personajes a los que llevó ese trabajo periodístico. Cuenta la historia de la 'señora del dinero', su círculo de cabilderos, la red de Baker Hughes, el papel del supersecretario Esquer y los contratos y negocios vinculados. Incluye asimismo la reacción que hubo en Palacio, con la furia del presidente, los entretelones de la investigación y los documentos y fotografías con que se confirmó la historia que cimbró a Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zeitenwende - Putins Krieg und die Folgen (Ungekürzt) Author: Rüdiger Von Fritsch Narrator: Kevin Kasper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Krieg in Europa. Mit rücksichtsloser Gewalt überfällt Wladimir Putins Russland die Ukraine und bringt sämtliche Eckpfeiler zum Einsturz, die den Frieden in Europa seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert gesichert haben. Zeitenwende. In was für einer Welt werden wir morgen aufwachen? Wie wird Europa am Ende dieses Krieges aussehen? Rüdiger von Fritsch, ehemaliger Botschafter in Moskau, ist Wladimir Putin oft begegnet. Was diesen antreibt, was ihn stoppen könnte und was sein Krieg für uns bedeutet - davon handelt sein neues Buch.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los millonarios de la guerra: El expediente inédito de García Luna y sus socios Author: Peniley Ramírez Narrator: Yamily Chiquini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: «Peniley Ramírez ha escrito un estremecedor thriller de no ficción. Siempre creímos que la llamada guerra contra el narco había dejado sólo incontables víctimas y perdedores. Con rigor y profundidad, Peniley desvela quiénes -como el propio Genaro García Luna, su primer artífice- medraron con la #guerra# y se convirtieron en sus espurios, obscenos ganadores.» Jorge Volpi En diciembrede 2006, Felipe Calderón declaró la «guerra contra el narco»: una era de sangre y fuego que ha dejado cientos de miles de muertos... y cientos de millones de dólares para unos pocos. En esta investigación #realizada a lo largo de 8 años, en 4 países y con más de 17 mil documentos# la periodista Peniley Ramírez desnuda a quienes se han forrado de dinero gracias a esa industria: políticos, proveedores, brokers, espías,empresas de seguridad, asesores, mandos policiacos, jefes militares y mercaderes de armas y de humo. Genaro García Luna es sólo uno de ellos, casi el único que ha caído en desgracia. Este libro demuestra que su vida y obra ejemplifican todo un sistema, que persiste hasta hoy, en el que para ganar millones no se necesita ganar la «guerra».

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Tamil] - RSS -Varalaarum Arasiyalum Author: Pa Raghavan Narrator: Kalyanaraman G Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'தேசமெங்கும் எத்தனையோ பல மதக்கலவரங்களின் பின்னணியில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸின் பெயர் தொடர்ந்து அடிபட்டு வந்திருக்கிறது. அப்பழுக்கற்ற தேசியவாத இயக்கம் என்று அதன் ஆதரவாளர்களும், சந்தேகமில்லாமல் மதவாத இயக்கம் என்று எதிர்ப்பாளர்களும் தொடர்ந்து கூறி வந்திருக்கிறார்கள். எது உண்மை? சுதந்தர இந்தியாவின் மிகப்பெரிய கலவர காண்டத்தை பாபர் மசூதி இடிப்புச் சம்பவத்தின் மூலம் தொடங்கிவைத்தது ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ். மும்பை தொடங்கி கோத்ரா வரை நீண்ட அவலங்களின் சரித்திரம் அழியக்கூடியதல்ல. இயற்கைப் பேரழிவுச் சம்பவங்களானாலும் சரி. பங்களாதேஷ் யுத்தம், கார்கில் யுத்தம் போன்ற தருணங்களானாலும் சரி. நிவாரணப் பணிகளில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் தொண்டர்கள்தாம் முதலில் களத்தில் நின்றிருக்கிறார்கள். எனில், ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸுக்கு இரண்டு முகமா? இல்லை. இருபது முகங்கள் என்று எடுத்துக்காட்டுகிறது இந்நூல். வெளியான காலம் முதல் இன்றுவரை இந்துத்துவ ஆதரவாளர்கள் - எதிர்ப்பாளர்கள் என இரு தரப்பினராலும் கடுமையாக விமரிசிக்கப்பட்டு, தூற்றப்பட்டு வரும் ஒரே தமிழ்ப் பிரதி இதுதான். இதுவே இந்நூலின் நடுநிலைமைக்குச் சான்று.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi vida en la transición: 40 años en la democracia mexicana Author: Demetrio Sodi Narrator: René García Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: En un momento en el que se ha reconfigurado todo el mapa político del país, resulta imprescindible recordar la historia de la transición en México, para entender que no existen soluciones mágicas y que ignorar lo avanzado durante años puede representar un retroceso generacional. Decía Julio Scherer García que para entender la historia hay que analizar a los protagonistas. Y esta obra hace justamente eso: Demetrio Sodi, uno de los mayores conocedores de la política mexicana desde hace décadas, nos guía por los salones y los despachos donde se ha decidido la vida del país durante los últimos 40 años. Sodi de la Tijera —quien ha sido jefe delegacional, diputado, senador y activista, entre otros— nos cuenta los entresijos de las negociaciones, las tensiones ocultas, las amenazas, las razones hondas y las anécdotas más reveladoras. En un viaje que va desde Echeverría hasta LópezObrador, retrata a Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, López Portillo, Carlos Salinas, el sub Marcos y buena parte de la clase que hoy gobierna.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Colosio: Crónica del fracaso de un proyecto transexenal Author: Raymundo Riva Palacio Narrator: Luis Tula Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Éste es el relato de cómo un proyecto transexenal fracasó mientras el país se hundió en una violenta espiral. En este libro resulta claro que 1994 NO HA TERMINADO. Desde la historiografía y el periodismo siempre han surgido ángulos insospechados que lo confirman como el año que definió el rumbo actual del país. Y ésta no es la excepción. En una crónica donde se entre - tejen testimonios de los protagonistas de aquella época con revelaciones de personajes que han “perdido el miedo de hablar”, Raymundo Riva Palacio analiza uno de los hitos de la transición a la democracia mexicana: el discurso que Luis Donaldo Colosio pronunció frente a la militancia priista el 6 de marzo de 1994 en el Monumento a la Revolución. ¿Qué pasó aquel día del ya célebre “yo veo un México con hambre y con sed de justicia”? Muchos se apresuraron a decir que en aquel acto el candidato mandó una señal de ruptura y al mismo tiempo firmó su sentencia de muerte. Sin embargo, Riva Palacio se propone echarabajo ese mito y situar a Colosio como político y delfín de Salinas, mostrando la afinidad de sus proyectos. En medio de una extensa discusión pública, a lo largo de los años pocos se han preguntado: ¿Quién ganó en realidad con el crimen? ¿Por qué aquellos a los que Salinas llamó la “nomenklatu - ra” no le disputaron la sucesión? ¿Por qué, si fue un asesinato desde el interior del partido para afectar el programa salinista, el sistema no se modificó? A fin de cuentas, laverdad dejó de ser importante. La historia popular elevó a mito la figura de Colosio e identificó como villano a su arquitecto.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader, and His Family Author: Nelly Lahoud Narrator: Lameece Issaq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder—told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle Usama Bin Laden’s greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda’s secrets. At great risk to themselves and the entire mission, the US Special Operations Forces, who carried out the Abbottabad raid that killed Bin Laden, took an additional eighteen minutes to collect Bin Laden’s hard drives and thereby expose al-Qaeda’s secrets. In this ground-breaking book, Nelly Lahoud dives into Bin Laden’s files and meticulously distills the nearly six thousand pages of Arabic private communications. For the first time, al-Qaeda’s closely guarded secrets are laid bare, shattering misconceptions and revealing how and what Bin Laden communicated with his associates, his plans for future attacks, and al-Qaeda’s hostility toward countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. Lahoud presents firsthand accounts of al-Qaeda from 9/11 until the elimination of Bin Laden, as told through his own words and those of his family and closest associates.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? Author: A. C. Grayling Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries, and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not-impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these questions, A. C. Grayling considers the three most pressing challenges facing the world: climate change, technology, and justice, acknowledging that there is no worldwide set of values that can be invoked to underwrite agreements about what to do and not do in the interests of humanity and the planet in all these respects. As extreme weather events increase in frequency, advances in AI and military technology accelerate, and inequities deepen everywhere, the question of how to confront the world’s various problems becomes even more urgent. If there is to be a chance of finding ways to generate universal agreement, the underlying question of values (together with the problem of relativism) has to be addressed. One part of the answer may lie in toleration and convivencia—the basis of coexistence among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Iberian peninsula between the ninth and fifteenth centuries CE.