Matt KennardThe Racket
A Rogue Reporter Vs the American Empire
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 two acclaimed books: Irregular Army (2012) and The Racket (2015).
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