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Shadow World, documentary on the corruption at the heart of the arms trade: [View all]
'Saudi Arabia wanted to buy 43 billion pounds of weaponry from the UK. The commission on that would be 6 billion pounds, what you or I would call bribes", Andrew Feistein author of Shadow World, the book this documentary i based on.In this montage of archival news footage and interviews, we observe the shadow world of the global arms trade, where corruption, lies, and greed drive covert relationships between politicians, industry executives, military and intelligence officials, and arms dealers. Their aim is to perpetuate war to generate more profit, no matter what the human cost might be. Based upon the 2011 book by Andrew Feinstein, "The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade."'
