Today, the United States strides the globe as one of the world's most powerful empires ever witnessed.
Its hegemonic ambition, devised after the Second World War and consolidated with the untimely fall of the Soviet Union, knows little limits. With a litany of military bases, a network of alliances, an international economic architecture that places it at the center of the world economy, and an enormous structural power in the form of global institutions, its empire is all-encompassing.
In this episode, Matt Kennard argues there is a global network of elites, who do the bidding for this empire. While working for The Financial Times as an investigative journalist, he had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. He is the author of The Racket, A Rogue Reporter vs the American Empire. Matt is currently a co-founder and head of investigations at Declassified UK.