Silent Coup

Claire Provost is co-founder and codirector of the new non-profit Institute for Journalism and Social Change. She was previously Head of Global Investigations at the independent media outlet openDemocracy, a fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, and a data journalist at the Guardian. This is her first book. Matt Kennard is co-founder, and chief investigator, at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London. He is the author of two acclaimed books: Irregular Army (2012) and The Racket (2015).

Biographies

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The meeting

Part One: Corporate justice

1 Democracy on Trial

2 Corporate Courts

3 Secret Insurance

4 Capitalist Magna Carta

5 The Boomerang

Part Two: Corporate Welfare

6 Aid-funded Business

7 Financing ‘Development’

8 Buying Power

9 Aiding Elites

10 A New Continent

Part Three: Corporate Utopias

11 Fences Up

12 Irish Invasion

13 Rights Suspended

14 Private Cities

15 Finance is King

Part Four: Corporate Armies

16 Peace Without Democracy

17 Profits Versus Peasants

18 Private Borders

19 Private Protection

20 Lucrative Threats

Epilogue: Ugly Truths

Bibliography

Notes

Index