Matt KennardThe Racket
A Rogue Reporter Vs the American Empire
Matt Kennard is the 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 is the author the acclaimed book Irregular Army (2012) and co-author (with Claire Provost) of Silent Coup (2023).
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
