William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the American arms trade, the U.S. government’s scolding of Russia for the same behavior on a smaller scale, the companies that make up the American Military-Industrial-Complex, China’s arms sales and the UN small arms treaty.
MP3 here. (13:02)
William D. Hartung, the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, is the author of How Much Are You Making on the War Daddy?: A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration and a contributor to Sean Costigan and David Gold, editors, Terrornomics.
What in the heck is the matter with us USA’ers that we are willing to be such a minor product manufacturer, and such a major exporter of armaments to any the heck horrible government, destroyer of the innocent, in the world. There is no excuse.
This is not an excuse, but an explanation: US empire (late phase). See British empire.
it is hard to imagine a conversation about the world arms trade without a single mention of israel.
wasn’t there a big story in ha’aretz last week claiming that israel was arming the junta in burma?
has goyette gone over to the dark side? i suspect hartung is a shill for israel like the people in pnac.
aren’t the majority of the major arms dealers israelis?