Matt Kennard

The Racket (eBook, ePUB)

A Rogue Reporter vs The American Elite

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Kennard reports with devastating precision.' Naomi Klein While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard's unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, Gael García Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. Now it's time for the world's citizens to also uncover the racket.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780329901
• Artikelnr.: 42643553

Autorenporträt

Matt Kennard is co-founder, and chief investigator, at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Irregular Army (2012), and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023).

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

In this important book, Kennard explores the direct impacts of militarized, globalized American capitalism on some of the most battered parts of our world. With devastating precision and a formidable sense of urgency, he reports on corporate shock doctors in Haiti, imperialist drug warriors in Honduras, pillaging coal and mining giants in southern Africa and Appalachia — and so much more. Most importantly, he never loses sight of the the growing numbers of resistors holding on to their creativity and self-determination in the face of these forces.