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The Deep State isn't finished trying to destroy President Donald Trump - they've only just begun. Coup d'Etat blows the lid off the Deep State's efforts to prevent the Trump presidency, disrupt his agenda, and prevent his reelection.

Tras el éxito de ventas de "Notificación roja", Bill Browder regresa con otro apasionante relato en el que detalla cómo se convirtió en el enemigo público número uno de Vladímir Putin al revelar la campaña del presidente ruso para robar y lavar cientos de miles de millones de dólares y matar a cualquiera que se interpusiera en su camino.

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos. America is used to larger-than-life politicians, from Telfon Don to AOC and from...

Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el "enigma Z", Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el país en los años venideros ante un potencial crecimiento desmedido de esta organización criminal.

Dass es in der Welt des Fußballs immer weniger um den Sport und immer mehr um schmutzige Geschäfte geht, ahnen die Fans nicht erst seit den Skandalen um die Fifa und die vermeintlich gekaufte WM 2006 in Deutschland. Die "Football Leaks" bieten nun erstmals Einblicke in die Schattenwelt der Branche, offenkundig wird die grenzenlose Gier, die hinter den Kulissen des Weltfußballs herrscht.

En Los Cuadernos, Cabot revela al fin toda la verdad de una investigación sin precedentes que generó cientos de especulaciones, operaciones y contra operaciones, arrepentidos, denuncias, encarcelamientos y traiciones y que cambió para siempre la forma de hacer política en la Argentina.

Ottobre 2020: per la prima volta nella storia della magistratura un ex membro del Csm viene radiato dall'ordine giudiziario. Chi è Luca Palamara? Una carriera brillante avviata con la presidenza dell'Associazione nazionale magistrati a trentanove anni. A quarantacinque viene eletto nel Consiglio superiore della magistratura e, alla guida della corrente di centro, Unità per la Costituzione, contribuisce a determinare le decisioni dell'organo di autogoverno dei giudici.

Ob es um die dubiosen Geschäftspraktiken von internationalen Spitzenklubs wie dem FC Barcelona, Manchester City oder Paris Saint-Germain geht, um die Ausbeutung von Jugendspielern oder die Vertuschung von Straftaten: Die Gier im Fußball kennt kaum noch Grenzen. Die SPIEGEL-Journalisten Rafael Buschmann und Michael Wulzinger geben neue, exklusive Einblicke in die zunehmend mafiösen Strukturen im Spitzenfußball und erzählen dabei auch die Geschichte des Mannes, der durch seinen Mut die spektakulären Enthüllungen erst möglich gemacht hat - und dafür nun im Gefängnis sitzt.

Words Whispered in Water is the story of how - against all odds - one woman exposed the culprit in the catastrophic flooding and compelled the news media, and the government, to tell the truth. Words Whispered in Water highlights the importance of exposing the bad behavior of giant corporations and bureaucracies whose unsavory activities affect millions of people, because once bad behavior is exposed, there is noticeably less fraud and better behavior on the part of an organization.

Nunca como ahora es tan pertinente este duro libro de Lydia Cacho porque en él revela cómo opera el sistema, en particular los más poderosos priístas para proteger a pederastas que esclavizan niñas y niños en México. Este revelador libro le pone nombre y rostro a quienes, ahora de vuelta en el poder total, pretenden arrasar con lo mejor del periodismo de investigación.

No Return: The Lost Children of Mexico’s Highways by Samantha J. Garcia is an investigative nonfiction account of the disappearance of more than two hundred children along Mexico’s major highway routes. Through research, field reporting, and testimony from families and experts, the audiobook exposes how corruption, organized crime, and weak institutions allow these vanishings to occur.

Der Enthüllungsjournalist Claas Meyer-Heuer hat tausende Nachrichten dieser Art gelesen. Er taucht tief ein in die verborgene Parallelwelt und zeigt, wie Ermittler durch die Entschlüsselung der Kryptosysteme die brutalen Strukturen der Drogenmafia offenlegen. Dieses Buch gibt exklusive Einblicke in die Abgründe der Unterwelt, beleuchtet die rechtlichen Grauzonen der beispiellosen Ermittlungen und geht der Frage nach, warum das Geschäft trotz tausender Festnahmen weiter boomt.

Lawfare has been with us since the inception of the country. Both Democrat and Republican prosecutors and investigating agents have misused their authority to pursue otherwise innocent victims over time. But with the arrival of Hillary Clinton at the White House, the practice was refined in tandem with her efforts to pursue all those who offered public criticism about her husband and the Clinton Administration. Her "war rooms" in the White House, the Senate, and at the State Department sowed the seeds for ongoing corruption within the Department of Justice.

The power to tax is the power to destroy! So says the Supreme Court. Have you ever felt like something was wrong about the tax system? Do you know how many government agencies are taxing you, how they are taxing you, and what they are spending the money on? Have you ever wondered if this was right, or if we're all just getting duped? You're not alone! Taxation Is Theft explores all the ways we are being taxed and discusses the ethical considerations that often go unheard.

We once idolized tech entrepreneurs for creating innovations that seemed like modern miracles. We now blame them for spreading lies, breaking laws, and causing chaos. Yesterday's Silicon Valley darlings have become today's Big Tech villains. Which is it? Are they superheroes or scoundrels? Or is it more complicated?

When Cops Are Criminals examines the widespread problem of police brutality and corruption from the perspectives of those who understand it in depth. Pulling together the accounts of survivors, campaigners and academics, it explores different forms of criminal behaviour by police, the factors that contribute to it, the impact it has on victims, and the challenges of holding perpetrators accountable.

With current global events influenced directly by Russia or its proxies, it is becoming more and more crucial to understand Putin’s Mafia State and, through it, understand Russia’s failure to become a true democracy – a process that began with the fall of Perestroika and ended in the latest invasion of Ukraine.

Originally entitled Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) is a classic of American political literature that records the candid, “plain talks” of George Washington Plunkitt, a powerful leader within New York City’s Tammany Hall political machine. Compiled by journalist William L. Riordon, the...

A groundbreaking exposé of the secret conspiracy between Jared Kushner, the UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ), and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to fund a hidden policy agenda, influence the Trump White House, and reshape the Middle East—from the author of the “remarkable”...

In Corrupt by Design, Boris Kriger overturns the conventional wisdom that corruption is a problem of bad people in good systems. Drawing on game theory, evolutionary biology, institutional economics, and a formally proved mathematical framework, he argues that corruption is the predictable product of badly designed institutions — a rational response to the gap between what rules demand and what people need. The bribe is not a moral failure. It is a structural symptom.