Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. 'A brilliant atlas of what Kennard calls 'heavy history' - the hurricane-like path of global destruction wrought by neoliberalism and wars against the poor.' Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. '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. War 8.
'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 crucial expose of the powerful, of injustice, and of the war against the poor. Occupy 18. Create a wish list to save items you like, gift ideas and more.
Journalist Matt Kennard traces a number of huge problems with the U.S. military to the lowering of enlistment standards by Donald Rumsfeld during the administration of George W. Bush. '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.' Matt Kennard. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. ''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.' From Palestine to Bolivia and America to South Africa, reporter Matt Kennard provides a roadmap of deformed economics, state violence and inspiring resistance.
- The Daily Beast "Matt Kennard is a fluent, powerful and authoritative writer whose debut book will surely establish him as one of Britain's best-known investigative journalists." The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. Simply link your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership number to your Booktopia account and earn points on eligible orders.Either by signing into your account or linking your membership details before your order is placed.Shop thousands of Books, Audio Books, DVDs, Calendars, Diaries and Stationery, then proceed to checkout.Earn 2 Qantas Points per $1 spent. Bretton Woods 2. Your points will be added to your account once your order is shipped.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 creme de la creme 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 Garcia Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. 'Kennard reports with devastating precision and a formidable sense of urgency.'
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.' ''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.' '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.