* 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
An investigation of how the US empire continues to enslave much of humanity, both at home and abroad.
Matt Kennard is a fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Irregular Army (2012) and has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in London, New York and Washington, DC. He has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Guardian.
i>'This is radical journalism of the highest order.
*Socialist Review*
A first-class piece of radical investigative journalism.
*The Journalist*
Matt Kennard's The Racket is a powerful tool for self-education: it
offers essential information about the insatiable and sordid nature
of global, elitist, exploitive, profit-blinded governments and
institutions that have, together, perfected the task of making
billions of people miserable, poor and fatally unhappy. It also
offers testimony from activists and artists who are not giving in,
giving up, or lying down.
*Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color
Purple*
This firecracker of a book, written by a former insider journalist
who realised the true, exploitative agenda of corporate media,
unleashes a gonzo journey across the world of US empire. From
Palestine to Bolivia and America to South Africa, reporter Matt
Kennard provides a roadmap of deformed economics, state violence
and inspiring resistance. The Racket's key message is that another,
more just world is possible when political and media courtiers of
power recognise their own complicity in Washington's destructive
policies in the name of 'development', 'humanitarian intervention'
and 'liberation'. Read this book, be startled and then take
action.
*Antony Loewenstein, Guardian columnist and author of Profits of
Doom*
The Racket is a well-researched political tour through weaponized
corruption and tyranny, destitution, robbery, mass murder and
concluding in the censoring of the arts in the United States and
Britain. Matt Kennard puts no deodorant on the reptiles waste in
the imperial barnyard.
*Gavin MacFadyen, director of the Centre for Investigative
Journalism*
Matt Kennard threw away a cushy career with an establishment
newspaper just to let you in on a secret: you don't get the story,
you get the cover-up. From Honduras to Haiti to Washington to
London, Kennard lets us in on the details of buried truth.
*Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy*
Matt Kennard exposes the failure of US neoliberalism and a major
reason why China's star is rising while US foreign policy is
imploding into a black hole.
*John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman*
If I was editor of an old-fashioned newspaper, the kind that
published and be damned, I'd hire Matt Kennard. The Racket is a
front page story.
*John Pilger*
The Racket is an engaging insider’s account of how the United
States has spent the past 70 years constructing an intricate web of
economic control across the globe, enforced by violence as a last
resort, which sucks wealth and resources from the poor world to the
rich.
*Julian Assange*
Matt Kennard reveals the ruthless criminal dynamics of global
imperialism. His analysis is richly researched, keenly
illustrative, and consistently on target. May this book get the
wide readership it deserves.
*Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism and Profit
Pathology and Other Indecencies*
A brilliant atlas of what Kennard calls 'heavy history' - the
hurricane-like path of global destruction wrought by neoliberalism
and wars against the poor.
*Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians:
Essays against Empire*
Kennard reports with devastating precision and a formidable sense
of urgency.
*Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock
Doctrine*
I congratulate Matt Kennard for this brutally honest work. We need
Kennard and other writers like him who have the courage and
creative mind to expose the lies and deception of the Free Market,
Free Elections, Free Choices, Democracy, Peace, Cooperation,
Friendship, Partnership, Equality, Justice and other beautiful
words hiding savage brutality, violence, terrorism, colonialism,
and imperialism.
*Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero*
Matt Kennard's perceptive direct reporting and analysis of policy
aim to expose 'the racket' that dominates much of global society
and to 'blow their cover'. His in-depth studies, ranging from Haiti
to Palestine to Bolivia to Honduras to the destitute in New York
City and far more, bring home in vivid and illuminating detail the
reality of life and struggles of much of the world's population,
their defeats and victories, their suffering and vitality and
hope.
*Noam Chomsky, author of Hegemony or Survival and Failed
States*
A crucial exposé of the powerful, of injustice, and of the war
against the poor. It should inspire all of us to fight back.
*Owen Jones, author of Chavs and The Establishment*
The Racket is tough, angry, relentlessly researched and riveting,
in the grand Chomskyian tradition but with the added value of the
journalist's mobility and on the spot coverage. Kennard's range is
wide, both geographically and topically, but with a single target -
the depredations of the US superpower's corporate and political
elites on their own home turf and abroad that the lap-dog media
rarely touch.
*Susan George, author of The Lugano Report: On Preserving
Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century*
Drawing on his wide-ranging in-depth investigations of exploitation
and resistance from Haiti to Tunisia, Matt Kennard provides a
valuable portrait of the structure and dynamics of the world’s
biggest criminal enterprise. A masterpiece of engaged
journalism.
*Walden Bello, member of the House of Representatives of the
Republic of the Philippines and author of Capitalism’s Last Stand*
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