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This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. 

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement.

It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

Democracy is in crisis. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild claims that can be shared instantly with millions of people on social media. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and populists in many other countries are the beneficiaries. Democracy for Sale is a diligent, brilliant guide through a shadowy world of dark money and digital disinformation stretching from Westminster to Washington and far beyond. 

Wir können ihn täglich beobachten — den immer härteren und schrilleren Krieg um Macht und Vorherrschaft in den digitalen Medien. Doch wer kämpft eigentlich gegen wen? Der international renommierte Medienexperte Martin Andree zeigt, wie eine Koalition aus Dark Tech, Trump und Rechtspopulisten offen nach autokratischer Macht greift. Über digitale Monopole kontrolliert sie zunehmend die Öffentlichkeit – und damit die Grundlage unserer Demokratien. Mit jedem Tag wird es schwerer, unsere freie Welt noch zu retten. Werden wir das Ruder noch herumreißen?

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, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court.

14 YEARS 5 PRIME MINISTERS THE PARTY IS OVER THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY With unparalleled access to people who were in the room, Nadine outlines exactly how we got here, and what really happened, in this astonishing real-life political thriller. After decades in the hands of...