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Arms for Oil

by Michael Barratt Brown - £5.00  Spokesman (2005)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780851246987 | ISBN 10: 0851246982

Why do one third of the world's arms exports - from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Russia - go to one fifteenth of the world's peoples - all in the 'Middle East'? The obvious answer would be that the arms exporting countries want to protect the governments which control the oil supplies; and that is certainly part of the reason. Another reason could be the need of undemocratic, Arab governments for protection against their own people, or against Isreal or Iran. But, the purchase of so many state-of-the-art aircraft and naval vessels seems hardly to be needed for that. Michael Barratt Brown, having researched the arms for oil business in some depth, has come to a rather surprising conclusion. The pressure comes from the arms exporters. In each major arms supplying country Barratt Brown demonstrates that there can be found a cabal of ministers, civil servants, bankers and directors of companies in the arms business concerned to expand the arms sales by all means including massive bribes, often from state funds. And they are assisted in this by their links to the giant oil corporations. This may be obvious in the Bush administration, but it can also be found under New Labour.

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