THE RACKET: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire

Inclinations Book Club & Aye-Aye Books present

THE RACKET: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire

Join us for an evening with Matt Kennard who will be discussing his influential book THE RACKET, and his work as an investigative journalist for Declassified UK. Followed by Q&A and book signing.

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse's mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home.

Owing to the very nature of the Financial Times, however, Kennard was not able to publish these findings as part of his day job. Enter THE RACKET, now in a fully updated second edition. This tell-all book, reported from all corners of the world, will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works-and in whose interests. Kennard reports not only from across the United States, but from the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. In doing so he provides startlingly clear and concrete evidence of unchecked, high-level, interrelated systems of exploitation all over the world. At the same time, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, and Gael García Bernal, Kennard offers a glimpse of a developing resistance, which needs to win.

To explore some of the themes in THE RACKET, you can watch a series of interviews Kennard conducted with Ahmed Alnaouq, Jeremy Corbyn, Jill Stein and others. They can all be found on Youtube. Below is Kennard's interview with Noam Chomsky on The Collapse of American Empire conducted in May 2023:

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