The racket : a rogue reporter vs. the masters of the universe /: a rogue reporter vs. the masters of the universe. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matt Kennard.
• Authors: Kennard, Matt
• Contents: Front Cover; More Praise for The Racket; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Racketeers; The Believers; For Your Own Good; Part 1: How We Owned You; 1. Creating a Modern-day Slave State; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; History's Long Shadow; The Shock; Therapy; No Room for an Alternative; 2. The Racket; A Very Brief Explanation of What Really Happened after World War II; Now You Are Indebted; You Better Work; 3. Rigging the System; The Whole Truth: Free Trade; And Nothing But the Truth: Aid and Investment; Another Way of Doing Things; 4. Cursing Your Riches. Killing for TreasureKilling for Profit; Our Lithium; Part 2: Enforcement; 5. The Mob; Your Friendly, Local Types; Let Us Help You; 6. With Friends Like These; Sheikh Jarrah, Palestine; The Patron; Cracks in the Occupation; Diyarbakir, Turkey; The Golden Child; 7. Might is Right; War; The Mob Rules by Fear; The Drug War; 8. A Drug War Colony; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Nothing to See Here; Culprits Running Free; The Economy of Despair; Excuses; 9. War on Hope; La Paz, Bolivia; Turning the Tide; Paying Clandestine Visits; La Espana Gloriosa; The Massacre That Wasn't; We'll Take Care of Him. Building an Investor-friendly Business ClimateTrading Bribes; Very Measured; Being a Softy; Saying Thank You; Part 3: Reinforcement; 10. The First Peoples of America and Their Land; Oklahoma, Delaware; The Bubble; Naoma; Fracking; Shedding The Regulator; 11. Working America; Occupy, New York City; A Movement Takes Off; The Student Victims; The Battle Not Over; The Downfall of US Workers and Their Union; Divide and Rule; 12. Destitute America; Starving, Washington, DC; Homeless America; Captured Regulation; Living in New York; Leaving Them to Rot ; 13. Lock-up America; Social Control. Perverse IncentivesCutting Justice; Part 4: We're Losing You; 14. Turf War; The Monroe Doctrine; Tamper-proof Democracy; Caracas, Venezuela; 15. Freedom Fighters; Chiapas, Mexico; Acteal; Free-trade Slavery; Full-frontal Attack; 16. Revolutionaries; Cairo, Egypt; The Bogeyman; The Economics of Revolution; The Future; 17. Successful Defiance; Tunis, Tunisia; The Glow Of Revolution; The New Generation; 18. Culture as a Weapon of Resistance; What's Art Got to do With It?; You Can't Buy this; Shaking Off The Straitjacket; Art and Politics; Art On the Streets; Culture Occupied; Index; Back Cover.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (359 pages)
• Subjects: 327.7/3; Propaganda, American; Investigative reporting; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General; Diplomatic relations; Investigative reporting; Propaganda, American; United States -- Foreign relations; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780329895; 9781780329901; 1780329903; 9781780329918; 1780329911
• Related ISBNs: 178032989X; 9781780329888; 1780329881
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.