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December 2011 The almighty influence of the Arms Trade |
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It's 50 years since US President Dwight D Eisenhower, in his farewell address
to the nation, warned of the conjunction of the military and the arms manufacturers,
and the undue pressure they could exert on lawmakers and state policy.
Today we have moved from the Cold War to Continual War, all at great public
expense. Time to bring the arms industry into the line of fire. |
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NI No.448 Contents |
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| Agenda Making the news this month 6 The Occupy movement goes viral 7 Zambia vs China? 8 Time to explode myths of the Eurozone crisis Alternative 10 Gardening in the margins Community gardens are giving derelict inner-city sites a new lease of life, writes Anna Weston. PLUS: Get a warm glow with an eco-friendly log fire. Art 11 'I' ve not got a nice one for fracking...' Poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey on mobilizing resistance through the arts. PLUS: Bosnian love songs from Amira; an inspiring documentary recalling the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco; and, 50 years after his death, Susan Williams asks Who Killed Hammarskjold? Analysis Special feature: the Arms Trade 16 Anxieties of influence The arms industry tends to have the government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive? 19 Arms trade - THE FACTS 20 Washington's white elephant William D Hartung on the world's most expensive (pretty obsolete) combat aircraft and the unholy battle to keep producing it. 22 The shadow world Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals. His own political career got choked in one. 24 Rise of the drones The Terminator tendency to the fore as countries rush to acquire weapons that can be steered from half a world away. Chris Cole reports. |
Analysis 26 God is my alarm clock Meet Dona Maria Bras – a hero of the streets and one of the founders of a movement spreading across Brazil, giving the country's waste pickers back their dignity. By Deia de Brito. Regular Features 4 Letters Cargill's role in food price spikes; population woes; and the plight of Iraq's Christian minority ignored. PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone. 33 Letter from Cairo Maria Golia experiences beautiful music and blunt talk at an impromptu gathering. 34 Country profile: Federated States of Micronesia 36 Cartoon Corner Polyp's Big Bad World, Marc Roberts' Only Planet and guest cartoonist Farhad Foroutanian, an Iranian living in the Netherlands. 37 Puzzle Page 38 Mark Engler Why America's 99 per cent have rebelled. |
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