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ObamaCare is a complex law that will affect every single American. Everyone has an opinion about ObamaCare, but few people actually understand how the Affordable Care Act works. ObamaCare Simplified navigates you through the intricacies of the health care law and explains what it means for you. Whether you are satisfied with your present insurance or seeking to get insured, ObamaCare Simplified informs you of your rights, presents the facts, and will...
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Nuestra casi perenne crisis política no solo tiene que ver con la baja calidad del actual régimen democrático, sino también con los acuerdos y experiencias básicas sobre las que se construye y opera el vínculo entre Estado y ciudadanía. Partiendo de esta base, Aragón y Sánchez sostienen que poder, dominación y legitimidad son conceptos centrales para entender este complejo vínculo. Al estudiarlos, se centran en analizar lo que las personas...
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"Arab Migration into Europe" offers a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the waves of migration from Arab nations into Europe over the past few decades. Going beyond mere statistics and headlines, the book delves into the deeper socio-political implications of this migration, emphasizing the need for politicians and policymakers to address the challenges and opportunities that arise from such demographic shifts.Highlighted sections of the book...
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This new and updated edition of Michael Hudson's classic political economy text explores how and why the US came to achieve world economic hegemony. Originally published as the sequel to Hudson's bestselling Super Imperialism, Global Fracture explores American economic strategy during a key period in world history.
In 1973, many of the world's most indebted countries sought to free themselves of trade dependency and the debt trap by creating...
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During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the divisions between nation-states, focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite and the peoples of Europe.
David Cronin spent a year investigating the privileged access that big business enjoys in Brussels. In this book, he reveals...
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Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration failed to deliver on its promises of economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals for how the administration could have realised these goals.
In the period of Obama's presidency, corporate profits were up, and economic hardship was the bitter reality for millions of US citizens. Rasmus argues that the weakest economic recovery since 1947 was the direct...
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A venture capital executive draws on a wide variety of business, government, and societal trends to illustrate how most major challenges facing younger adults are exacerbated by age biases. 2011 eLit award winner.Kirkus Review:Venture capital investor Lerner calls attention to the alarmingly prevalent, counter-productive discrimination that thwarts young adults in the United States from making their mark on the culture.It's Lerner's desire to right...
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The first decade of the 2000s was a period of radical change in Turkish society and politics, marked by the major economic crisis of 2001 and the coming to power of ex-Islamist cadres organised under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). As the 'Turkish model' gains traction across the Middle East, this chronicle of Turkey's recent history dispels some important myths.
This period of radical change, with its continuities and breaks, pays...
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Inequalities of income, wealth and of power have been with us for millennia. This book is a critique of the counter-productivity of growing economic inequality from the 1980s to today. Douglas Dowd argues against capitalist expansion, exploitation and oligarchic rule.
The book states that the globalisation and growth of the financial sector will impact painfully upon hundreds of millions of people.
Presenting both a history of the current...
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Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party's identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and other primary sources, Daher's analysis confidently...
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Les indignés d'Occupy et d'ailleurs ont-ils raison de se plaindre des inégalités croissantes? Sont-elles plutt le prix à payer pour les grands bénéfices de l'économie de marché? Dans quelle mesure peut-on intervenir dans la distribution de la richesse, et peut-on le faire sans brimer les libertés individuelles? Les riches et les pauvres méritent-ils leur sort? Qu'est-ce que la «juste part», au juste? C'est à ces questions pressantes que...
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The idealism that engendered the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2004, later codified in the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, has since been reviewed to adapt to the turbulence that has befallen the EU and its neighbourhood.
The ENP is now little more than an elegantly crafted fig leaf that purports to take a soft power approach to the EU's outer periphery, argues the author, but in effect it inclines more towards Realpolitik.
By prioritising security...
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Kein Präsident war zur Halbzeit seiner Präsidentschaft jemals so unpopulär wie Donald J. Trump – dabei zugleich aber ausgesprochen populär unter Republikanern. Im Urteil der Experten gehört Trump mit Andrew Johnson und James Buchanan zu den drei schlechtesten US-Präsidenten aller Zeiten. Trumps innenpolitische Halbzeitbilanz war mager und seine außenpolitische Wirkung war ein Fiasko. Katastrophal war Trumps Regierungstechnik. Sie bestand...
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Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people - especially in the US - understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. This book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so intractable.
The book focuses on the Gaza Strip, an area that remains consistently neglected and misunderstood despite its political centrality. Drawing on...
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Did you know that bio-fuels actually increase CO2 emissions, or that hydrogen fuel cells increase reliance on fossil fuels and imported oil? We have enough oil in the ground to last more than five hundred years, a figure easily verifiable using U.S. government data, yet we're spending billions of dollars to fight an imaginary oil crisis.We're subsidizing bio-fuels, fuel cells and windmills with tax dollars while the national debt crisis threatens...
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The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events.
Marx believed that the rate of profit has a tendency to fall, leading to economic crises and recessions. Many economists, Marxists among them, have dismissed this theory out of hand, but Andrew...
19) Truth, Lies, and Perception: A narrative analysis of one of America's most controversial leaders
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Delve into the tumultuous era of American politics with "Truth, Lies, and Perception." Eric Hall scrutinizes the divisive legacy of Donald Trump, from the pivotal events of January 6th, 2021, to the evolving landscape of early 2024. Unraveling the complexities of Trump's controversial tenure, Hall meticulously dissects the reasons behind his polarizing nature and examines the unjust persecution he has faced. As the narrative unfolds, readers are invited...
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A change in political leadership led Joseph Newcome to a shocking revelation: Social Security is under attack. What he discovered resulted in the writing of his first book, titled: IN BAD FAITH: the Republican Plan to Destroy Social Security. The book is an attempt to expose Republican attacks on Social Security before it is too late (like Roe v Wade). Everyone who receives Social Security now or who will in the future will benefit from the information...
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