The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (Abridged Audiobook)

This abridged audiobook is just over 3 hours. It is great for those who have never taken the time to study the rape of Nanking but are interested to know about one of the worst atrocities the human race has ever seen. Please take the time to listen to this short audiobook about the war crime which is largely forgotten and even until today denied in Japan. 



Germans have paid at least 60 billion dollars in compensation and through other forms to acknowledge and repent for what they had done in WW2, while Japan has not paid anything and does not even acknowledge the level of criminality which their army perpetrated on the world.  



Iris committed suicide on November 9 2004 

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Judo For The Blind - Tragic Mulatto

A1	Not My Barn Dance		1:19
A2	Gossip		2:12
A3	Tac Squad		2:40
A4	St. OK		2:13
B1	Stop My Hand		2:37
B2	900 Foot Jesus		1:41
B3	200 Responses, 10 Minutes		2:12
B4	Not My Movie		1:48

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Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia by Carmen bin Laden

Well, I haven't been listening to any new music these days because I have had an earful of audiobooks. So I figured I should start posting the good ones here. This last one was a personal story from a half Persian half Swiss woman who grew up in Switzerland and ended up in the confines of Saudi Arabia. She explains her slow transformation from a free western woman to one who accepts the subjugation of women in the Saudi society.

Married in 1974 to Osama Bin Laden's older brother, Carmen Bin Laden spent nine years futilely attempting to adjust to both the conservative, tight-knit Bin Laden clan and the repressive Saudi culture she was naively unprepared to face. Half-Swiss and half-Persian, Carmen was raised in relative freedom in Europe. Carried away by romantic notions of love and loyalty, she initially struggled to bridge the gap between her background as an independent Western woman and Middle Eastern expectations of female submission and subservience. Life among the huge Bin Laden clan was especially treacherous since they claimed myriad complex ties to the Saudi royal family. After the birth of three daughters, with her Western-educated husband becoming increasingly parochial and reactionary, she realized it was time to throw off the abaya that literally and figuratively concealed the woman she once was and desperately wanted to be again. Although the notorious Osama Bin Laden appears a few times in the book and his name is bandied about to hook readers, the real story is Carmen's bid for self-actualization within a society and a family that harshly resisted and rejected every minor challenge to traditional wisdom and authority. Not wanting her three young children to be subjected to this upbringing, Carmen fights her way out of a painful marriage and makes a life for her family in Europe and America. Just when things seem to be leveling out, the horror of 9/11 occurs and Carmen has to fight the stigma attached to her married name of Bin Laden. A riveting testament to courage and determination, this intimate memoir of one woman's spiritual reawakening and odyssey has best-seller written all over it.

It's just one long MP3 which might be annoying to some, but if you use itunes it automatically remembers the position so it's much easier for me.

Read by award winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo

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