Matt Kennard – författare

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. Now more relevant than ever, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

After the Second World War, Britain gave up its empire and stepped back from the international stage. The state dismantled its imperial apparatus and refashioned itself as a force for good in the world.Or that's the myth the British establishment wants you to believe.Matt Kennard shows the truth is very different. The acclaimed journalist and founder of Declassified UK has spent years battling to expose secrets the government would rather were kept hidden. Bringing together testimony from the officials who designed the system and the victims of Britain's foreign policy, he uncovers for the covert programmes that still destabilise the global landscape. The Empire Never Died takes us on a worldwide tour of the places where Britain still has a profound-and negative-impact: the RAF bases in Cyprus facilitating Israel's genocide in Gaza; the military and intelligence base in Gibraltar used to spy on North Africa; and Britain's key support for Saudi Arabia during its savage war on Yemen. From lying, war-hungry politicians to corrupt arms deals, from exploitative oil companies to overreaching spy surveillance, Britain is far from an innocent actor on the world stage. The empire didn't end; it just learned to cover its tracks.

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power.Exposing the origins of this epic power grab as well as its present-day consequences, Silent Coup is the result of two investigative journalists' reports from 30 countries around the world. It provides an explosive guide to the rise of a corporate empire that now dictates how resources are allocated, how territories are governed, and how justice is defined.