The West may be losing control over the world’s resources but it still dominates weapons systems and information. Vijay Prashad explains why some world leaders are effectively arms dealers and how this influences diplomacy.
Read NI553: The Arms Trade
Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes
Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer, Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media Consultant)
Guest: Vijay Prashad
Further Reading from this Episode:
How to dismantle the deadly arms trade (Amy Hall, New Internationalist)
Guns or Diplomacy? An interview with Vijay Prashad (Amy Hall, New Internationalist)
Genocide in Gaza: Western Moral Collapse in the Age of Hyper-Imperialism (Palestine Deep Dive interview with Vijay Prashad)
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