Shadow World global arms trade

[Jim1cor13]

From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, Shadow World reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.

 

Based on The Shadow World: 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.

 

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/shadow-world-full-film/

 

Premiere: 11/20/2017 | Available until 12/5/2017

[Jim1cor13]

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Shadow World, based on the book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein, a memorably blunt and possibly shady European arms dealer named Riccardo Privitera explains how politics is dictated by the whims of the arms industry.

 

He likens politicians to sales reps…and prostitutes. 

 

Clip: 

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/shadow-world-politicians-like-prostitutes-clip/

[umbertino]

 

Thanks for sharing, Jim....