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Stake through the heart.
Someone’s really, really gone & done it with this one. Of all the subjects, arguably the most murderous of them all is a rarely scrutinised radius, a concealment strategy that is crucial to it’s perpetuation.
The arms trade.
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Andrew Feinstein has been relentlessly exposing & investigating this lucrative bloodbath for decades, & director Johan Grimonprez has based this astonishing film on his 2012, 551 page book – The Shadow World, with Feinstein also contributing to the documentary as one of the talking heads.
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Primarily focussed on the notorious Al-Yamamah arms deal, & the “neutralised” Serious Fraud Office investigation, derailed on the orders of then prime minister Tony Blair & Prince Andrew, the feature expands into the larger atrocity of this mass murdering marketplace.
Stained with perhaps more corruption than any other sector of commercial “trade” (& by today’s sub-standards, that is quite a accomplishment) this secretive & shadowy serial killing en-masse is mired in disrepute for it’s proclivity of bribery, prostitution & blackmail.
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This is an excruciatingly powerful documentary, with superb editing & production. But on the merit of exposure, it’s in a league of it’s own.
Not only is this perversion so rarely afforded coverage or penetrable scrutiny, but the cast of contributors here is exceptionally strong.
Both the dissection & elucidation is simply immense.
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One of the most extraordinary & revealing proponents is a European “arms & equipment” dealer themselves – Riccardo Privitera of Talisman Ltd.
Disarmingly frank & deeply sardonic, he provides some of the starkest “reality check” disclosures on the shocking axiom of this blood ocean industry.
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Or how about retired Colonel of the US Army Lawrence Wilkerson?
Who’s devastating truisms on the “military industrial complex” & genocide profiteering will leave even the cynic abraded.
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Other excellent cast include Chris Hedges, Clare Short (who went on to resign as MP on principle in response to Blair/Murdoch’s decision to invade occupy Iraq), Helen Garlick lead prosecutor at the SFO against Al-Yamamah, along with veterans on the subject such as Jeremy Scahill & the brilliant Vijay Prashad.
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This is an extremely important work, hence why you probably have not heard of it & visibility is so strangled, despite the effort & considerable expertise that have gone into this startling picture.
It’s brilliance is outweighed only by the necessity of such investigation & exposure.
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The scale, frequency & strength of the “global arms trade” & the ease with which it continues to both operate & dominate clearly demonstrates the level of malicious insanity & commercial belligerence that is happily ensconced in the inner sanctuary of the modern world & at the forefront of “trade” relations & international economies.
The devil’s work.
Johan Grimonprez/Andrew Feinstein, 2016
With special thanks to Blacc Pasha.