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The essential method of arms dealing is bribery, payoffs on a grand scale that enrich both the elites in the buying country and the arms makers in the selling country. While political agendas at times play a role in who gets what, the reigning ideology in the shadow world is greed.
The Saudis come in for a thrashing on this, the corrupters par excellence. Feinstein draws scathing portraits of Prince Bandar and Prince Turki, among other familiar figures in Washington, whose thirst for extravagance was matched only by their sheer brazenness in the arts of exploitation. Less spectacular but just as consequential is the exploitation at work in antiterrorism.
The meteoric growth of the homeland security state provides fresh opportunities for military contractors, who, like Lockheed, have diversified nimbly into the antiterrorism business. Contemporary warfare is more than ever about killing the innocent.
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Inside the Global Arms Trade , the acclaimed book by Andrew Feinstein, the film explores how governments, their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents are inextricably intertwined with the international trade in weapons, and how that trade fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracies and creates human suffering. It illustrates how the global arms trade operates in a parallel legal universe, in which the national security elite who drive it are seldom prosecuted for their often-illegal actions. Ultimately the film reveals the real costs of war, the way the arms trade drives it, and how a defense industry that is supposed to enhance security instead gives us the exact opposite: Shadow World features compelling interviews from a wide swath of experts, including: Army retired , Supreme Allied Commander, Europe ; among others.
Johan Grimonprez Director is a Belgian artist and filmmaker who achieved international acclaim for his documentary film dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y , a collaboration with author Don DeLillo that tells the story of air hijackings since the s and how this changed news reporting.
The Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein
With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, in , the film eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11, and analyzed compellingly how the media participates in the construction of our perceived reality. Inside the Global Arms Trade , is one of the world's leading experts on corruption and the global arms trade. Inside the Global Arms Trade.
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