Government Corruption

In Practical Idealism, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi declared his ambition that Europe and the United States of America "supersede democracy" and that democracy be replaced by a "social aristocracy of the spirit". Despite this, his best known quote is: "Man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will disappear due to the increased overcoming of space, time and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its features to the ancient Egyptians will replace the diversity of nations with the diversity of personalities.” Half Japanese and half European, ...

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different. From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, Careless People exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold.

It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the US. That moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin’s long mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that he and his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins had ensnared Trump in, starting more than 20 years ago with the massive bailout of a string of Trump hotel and casino failures. This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence.

Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the 20th century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trump's assault on traditional ethical and legal norms, Jonathan Marshall challenges the myth of a golden age of American democracy. Drawing on a host of original archival sources, he tells the shocking story of how well-protected criminals systematically organized the corruption of American national politics after World War II.

An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf - on and off the green - and what it reveals about his character. Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game.

Esta es la historia de un abogado de los ricos que vivió siempre como rico, un hombre vinculado al PRIAN que históricamente se situó en la trinchera ideológica opuesta al obradorismo hasta que le resultó útil infiltrarse en el movimiento para satisfacer sus más irrefrenables ambiciones.

Armed with an insider’s perspective from his time within the conservative movement, David Brock reveals how the efforts to stack the Supreme Court in service of extreme right-wing interests stem from a decades-long strategy to weaponize our judicial system into an extension of the Republican Party itself.

Investigative journalist Matthew Cole tells the story of the most lauded unit, SEAL Team 6, revealing a troubling pattern of war crimes and the deep moral rot beneath authorized narratives. From their origins in World War II, the SEALs have trained to be specialized killers with short missions. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan became the endless War on Terror, their violence spiraled out of control. Code Over Country details the high-level decisions that unleashed the SEALs’ carnage and the coverups that prevented their crimes from coming to light.

Año siete. El legado: la catástrofe es el análisis más severo al gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, en el que México pasó de la gran esperanza al abismo más oscuro con el crimen organizado como un ente todopoderoso, la corrupción en sus niveles más altos y la amenaza creciente de la impunidad.

Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.

The Cult of Trump is an accessible and in-depth analysis of the president, showing that under the right circumstances, even sane, rational, well-adjusted people can be persuaded to believe the most outrageous ideas. Hassan’s audiobook is essential listening for anyone wanting to understand the Trump phenomenon and looking for a way forward.

The Deep State Uncovered V: Big Ag Unmasking the Corporate Empire Controlling Your Food, Health, and Future What if everything you’ve been told about your food—how it’s grown, who controls it, and what it does to your body—is a lie? In The Deep State Uncovered V: Big Ag, former SWAT medic and investigator Mike Morton exposes the dark underbelly of the global agricultural-industrial complex. From factory farms to genetically modified seeds, from corrupt regulators to global monopolies, this book pulls no punches. Through powerful investigative reporting and a no-nonsense style, ...

Joe Biden made less than $200,000 a year for most of his life, but as soon as he left office, he bought his second multimillion-dollar mansion. He shared a bookkeeper with Hunter Biden, and a law firm with several Biden family members that managed their money. Hunter, who hasn’t had a real job in decades, has raked in tens of millions of dollars. Joe Biden met many of the foreigners writing the checks, but still maintains all of these situations are nothing to be concerned about. James Comer takes listeners on a journey through the murky world of the Biden family’s business dealings.

This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB, thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine.

Unveiling the Truth Real Conspiracies that Shaped the Modern World by Robert Varton Delve into the hidden world of real conspiracies that have shaped the course of history with "Unveiling the Truth Real Conspiracies that Shaped the Modern World." In this riveting exploration, author Robert Varton unearths the shadowy maneuvers and secret schemes that have influenced our governments, corporations, military, media, and more. From notorious scandals like Watergate and COINTELPRO to lesser known but equally insidious operations like Operation Northwoods and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, this...

David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to silence dissent and protect the powerful.

It’s rare that a campaign season has anything like an IRS whistleblower and a California US attorney saying they were blocked from pursuing charges, foreign wire transfers of millions of dollars going to several members of politician’s family, suspicious slap-on-the-wrist plea deals, mounds of incrimination texts, a previously unacknowledged child with a stripper, and multiple congressional investigations. It’s unprecedented to have them all tied to one politician like Joe Biden.

The Definitive Account of the Trump Trial. Your behind-the-scenes look at the historic showdown between President Donald Trump and the criminal justice system, told through the eyes of the journalist who was in the courtroom each day, capturing every dramatic twist and turn. A panoramic New York thriller unlike any other.

Este reportaje, a cargo de uno de los más capacitados periodistas de investigación de Venezuela, se lee como una novela gracias a su interés por el mundo íntimo y las vueltas del destino de sus dos protagonistas: en primer lugar, María Lourdes Afiuni, jueza convertida en prisionera por orden directa de Hugo Chávez Frías; en segundo lugar, Eligio Cedeño, el banquero a quien Afiuni liberó de un encierro similar al que luego –en represalia por su desobediencia al poder militar absoluto– le tocaría sufrir a ella.

The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump's path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him.