{"id":13746,"date":"2016-08-23T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=films&#038;p=13746"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:19:37","slug":"shadow-world","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/shadow-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Shadow World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Through the insights of whistleblowers, investigators, prosecutors, journalists, military and industry insiders, <i>Shadow World<\/i> unravels a number of the world\u2019s largest and most corrupt arms deals. 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: a more dangerous world.<\/p>\n<p><i>Shadow World<\/i> features compelling interviews from a wide swath of experts, including: Chris Hedges, former <i>New York Times<\/i> war correspondent; Franklin C. Spinney, former Pentagon military analyst; Cynthia McKinney, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell; and Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (retired), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000); among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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