Matt Kennard

The Racket

A Rogue Reporter Vs the American Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

"First published by Zed Books in 2015"--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781350422711
• ISBN-10: 1350422711
• Artikelnr.: 69827360

Autorenporträt

Matt Kennard

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Chris Hedges
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: How We Owned You
1. Creating a Modern-day Slave State
2. The Racket
3. Rigging the System
4. Cursing Your Riches
Part 2: Enforcement
5. The Mob
6. With Friends Like These
7. Might is Right
8. A Drug War Colony
9. War on Hope
Part 3: Reinforcement
10. The First Peoples of America and Their Land
11. Working America
12. Destitute America
13. Lock-up America
Part 4: We're Losing You
14. Turf War
15. Freedom Fighters
16. Revolutionaries
17. Successful Defiance
18. Culture as a Weapon of Resistance
Afterword
Index

Rezensionen

Matt Kennard exposes the failure of US neoliberalism and a major reason why China's star is rising while American foreign policy is imploding into a black hole.