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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

"‘A Complete Meltdown of Humanity’: Civilians Die in Fight for Eastern Aleppo" is from the December 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Cumming Bruce and Anne Barnard and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

In this dynamic and emotional presentation, Ian R. Crane links the trauma of contrived oil and food shortages with the plan to introduce genetically modified foods, not only to maximize the profitability of a mature oil and gas industry but also to provide a source of additional taxation for the primary purpose of funding an increasing number of illegal pre-emptive wars.