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- Corporations Control Our Governments: Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard | Downstream
Corporations Control Our Governments: Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard | Downstream
Most of you will agree that corporations have undue influence over our democracies, but exactly how this influence is exerted is tricky to illustrate - and that is by design. Behind innocuous sounding acronyms and worthy sounding trade agreements are the real cogs that allow the global corporate machine to corrupt societies and our guest this week, Matt Kennard, has spent the last two years investigating these shady entities. In his new book, ‘Silent Coup’, he and co-author Claire Provost give us shocking examples of how corporations exert, expand and consolidate control over the lives of practically everyone.
You can buy Matt's book here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/silent-coup-9781350269989/
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the most shocking part of this book and
of the two-year reporting project that
went into it was the aid section because
everywhere I went
I um I saw that Aid was not benefiting
largely there were small parts of it
that were benefiting the poor uh but
largely was benefiting the richest
people in the world the corporations and
the local Elite the second part of that
is that this is not a mistake originally
when I first started reporting I was
like okay well they've obviously not
thought this out but when you start
looking at the history of it and you
look at how a developed out of all of uh
formal colonialism you realize this has
been designed from the start
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most people understand that corporations
have a lot of power too much power over
all of our Lives the often private
business interests can subvert democracy
and the kinds of governments enacting
the kinds of policies that people want
but that can often be a vague feeling a
suspicion
Our Guest today has some meat to put on
the bones however Matt Canard has been a
journalist in this field for more than a
decade looking at how Private Business
often
supersedes and undermines the will of
peoples around the world Matt Canard
welcome to Downstream thank you for
having me good to be with you we're very
happy to have you back on Navara after
many years and we've got you back on to
talk about your new book newish book
silent coup how corporations over
through democracy that's obviously the
theme of a lot of the the questions I'm
going to ask today really what's happens
democracy and what's the role of
private sector before we go any further
tell our audience our viewers our
listeners a little bit about yourself
why are you an authority on the silent
coup good question because my day job is
working for Declassified UK and we focus
