War, Geopolitics, and History
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- By: Noam Chomsky (Professor, MIT)
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- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Noam Chomsky spoke to nearly 1,300 concerned citizens about the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the implications for U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky began with a review and analysis of the State of the Union Address and other necessary allusions. He wondered aloud when the U.S. will become a part of the world justice system instead of outside it. Chomsky pointed out how the U.S. government had opened a Pandora's Box with their loose interpretation of pre-emptive strike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
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Noam Chomsky on Democracy, Independence, and Peace
- What Are the Prospects?
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Originally, this talk was entitled "The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria." It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject.
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The Nanny
- A Novel
- By: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, Ben Eliot
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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In this compulsively listenable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever, The Nanny reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great gripping story!
- By Jordan Zenzel on 10-01-19
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How to Hide an Empire
- A History of the Greater United States
- By: Daniel Immerwahr
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,841
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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1 out of 5 stars
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How to beat a straw man to death
- By Susan on 01-25-20
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Is There Hope in This Desperate Time?
- By: Professors Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Noted academics and political commentators Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky each spoke for about 20 minutes and answered questions for over an hour. At the beginning, Zinn jokingly said that he would speak about hope and let Chomsky deal with desperation. Both Zinn and Chomsky spoke about how political and social matters had improved for the better during the past century and that today's times were not as desperate as in the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen, and open your mind
- By Rosina on 11-20-04
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them - Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza - to a slave trader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Todd on 03-13-09
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Iraq and U.S. Policy
- By: Noam Chomsky (Professor, MIT)
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Noam Chomsky spoke to nearly 1,300 concerned citizens about the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the implications for U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky began with a review and analysis of the State of the Union Address and other necessary allusions. He wondered aloud when the U.S. will become a part of the world justice system instead of outside it. Chomsky pointed out how the U.S. government had opened a Pandora's Box with their loose interpretation of pre-emptive strike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By Marcos on 04-12-04
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Noam Chomsky on Democracy, Independence, and Peace
- What Are the Prospects?
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Originally, this talk was entitled "The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria." It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject.
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The Nanny
- A Novel
- By: Gilly Macmillan
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, Ben Eliot
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Story4 out of 5 stars 347
In this compulsively listenable tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart. Diabolically clever, The Nanny reminds us that sometimes the truth hurts so much you’d rather hear the lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great gripping story!
- By Jordan Zenzel on 10-01-19
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How to Hide an Empire
- A History of the Greater United States
- By: Daniel Immerwahr
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,841
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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1 out of 5 stars
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How to beat a straw man to death
- By Susan on 01-25-20
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Is There Hope in This Desperate Time?
- By: Professors Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Noted academics and political commentators Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky each spoke for about 20 minutes and answered questions for over an hour. At the beginning, Zinn jokingly said that he would speak about hope and let Chomsky deal with desperation. Both Zinn and Chomsky spoke about how political and social matters had improved for the better during the past century and that today's times were not as desperate as in the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen, and open your mind
- By Rosina on 11-20-04
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 893
Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them - Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza - to a slave trader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Todd on 03-13-09
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- By: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,583
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,439
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
- By Katy.LED on 12-04-18
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The Management of Savagery
- How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
- By: Max Blumenthal
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story5 out of 5 stars 100
In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Middle management of savagery.
- By jeff on 09-03-19
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very one sided and biased
- By Samantha Leigh Almasi on 01-14-19
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
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The Essential Chomsky
- By: Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove (editor)
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 118
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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his 80th birthday. For the past 40 years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard to listen to after the first hour
- By Thomas Dargan on 05-02-16
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Free Will
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrated by: Sam Harris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,655
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A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating debate!
- By Margaret on 05-01-12
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 937
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Where are the charts and figures for Audible?
- By J. Thomson on 10-28-19
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Dances with Wolves
- By: Michael Blake
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even better than the movie. Excellent narration.
- By JSP on 12-28-19
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Manufacturing Consent
- The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- By: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening
- By EFM on 03-24-18
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The Militarization of Science and Space
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 31
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Unique among the world's political commentators, Noam Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the 10 most quoted sources in the humanities, and is the only living writer among them.
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Questions and Answers on Terrorism and the Case of the Cuban Five
- By: Noam Chomsky, Bernie Dwyer, Father Geoffrey Bottoms
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, Bernie Dwyer, Father Geoffrey Bottoms
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
During this event, Chomsky, along with Bernie Dwyer, a journalist and film maker, and Father Geoffrey Bottoms, a peace and justice activist from England, answers questions from the audience.
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 09-23-18
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- Fkrauss
- 08-08-12
Good lecture, reaaallly bad recording
The lecture is cool but the audio quality is so low that you need to like the content a lot just to get through it
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Everard (Desert Islander)
- 04-30-17
The definitive education on the so-called Middle East
It took me a year to get through the book. Audible really should get Robert Fisk's epic narrated, else many will miss out. That would be a real tragedy. How else will we find out? I tell anyone who'll listen this book is the touchstone by which to view the Middle East.
There are chapters which could carry a warning, "readers may find content disturbing and distressing."
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- Clifford
- 10-17-15
Robert Fisk & The Middle East
I have His books and enjoyed listening to this public chat with him and Noam Chomski who are both covering what our Newspapers fail or refuse to cover, and ask the forbidden questions. So I am going back to read The War to End all Wars.
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- Lord Peridot
- 07-28-18
What's really going on
This book is an extended lecture by Robert Fisk presented to a live & clearly knowledgeable audience. There's an interesting 20 minute Q&A session at the end & an introduction by Noam Chomsky. Fisks speaks about his war time reporting in the Middle East and draws interesting parallels between the current American interference & attempts at domination on the one hand & on the other the imperial adventures of Britain & Rome in the same arena. Despite the dreadful suffering of the people in the Middle East & his own direct experience of the horror & danger, Fisk delivers his lecture in a cheerful & brisk manner. Don't bother resding the NY or London Times if you want to understand what's going on in the world, listen to this lecture & read his book.
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- Mr. M. G. Helliwell
- 08-06-19
Good book, terrible audio
I enjoyed this enough to kick start an interest in reading more. However the audio quality is diabolical.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-27-19
review
the production standards were not very high. the content was interesting. a very sad human situation.
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- Anthony
- 05-02-17
Poor quality recording
Essentially a Q&A with fisk. Interesting with some humorous anecdotes. But not really worth a credit for the length.
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- KennethO'Rourke
- 03-23-16
Fisk at his best
Fisk displays his encyclopedic knowledge of the middle east, giving broad historical context enthusiastically and humorously
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- Stop the lights
- 07-22-19
Always enlightenment with Mr Fisk
I'd highly recommend everyone read Robert Fisk. Unlike some would be experts from Facebook and the like who comment on the Middle East Robert eats sleeps and breathes politics of the Middle East. I admire his views and opinions abo ve all others.
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- Burlow74
- 05-06-19
An Absolute Must Listen
Robert Fisk, as ever, shines a much needed light on the Wests century long meddling in the Middle East.
Practically all of its current problems are down to colonialism, Israel and Whabissim out of Saudi.