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Shadow World<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>is\u00a0in many senses an epic film, that (as Ian McQuaid wrote in The Ransom Note<\/a>) “draws\u00a0together a sordid tale of corruption, violence, and greed that sprawls across decades and continents… the documentary covers the full, hideous spectrum of half a century of arms manufacturing.”\u00a0The “superbly edited, angry documentary about the global arms trade” (Variety<\/a><\/em>) tells\u00a0of its many spidery tendrils woven across the world, and the\u00a0number of pundits featured in the film offering revelatory comments will make your head spin at times.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re here to help. Consider this a guidebook to some<\/span> of the major players featured in the film, a Who’s Who of experts on this\u00a0twisted story. Shadow World\u00a0<\/em>premieres November 20 at 10 pm on\u00a0Independent Lens\u00a0<\/em>[check local listings<\/a>]. In no particular order:\"RICCARDO<\/p>\n

RICCARDO PRIVITERA<\/h5>\n

Arms & Equipment Dealer<\/b><\/p>\n

Riccardo Privitera has worked in the weapons and military equipment business<\/strong> for many years, primarily through his company Talisman Europe, which was based in Warsaw. He is currently serving a 7-year jail sentence<\/strong> in relation to an allegedly corrupt and fraudulent military mat\u00e9riel deal between Portugal and Poland.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The thing about politicians is that they\u2019re very much like prostitutes but only more expensive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
VIJAY PRASHAD<\/span><\/h5>\n

Journalist and Author “The Poorer Nations”<\/b><\/p>\n

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator and intellectual<\/strong>. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, after having been the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut. Prashad is the author of seventeen books, including No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism <\/span><\/i>(of which The Hindu<\/em><\/a> newspaper wrote, “Prashad\u2019s passion for the subject and his meticulous research combine to show that for the left, new tomorrows await.”)<\/span>\u00a0His very politically woke Twitter feed is <\/span>@vijayprashad<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“[F]or the last fifty years at least, policy has been made based on the assumption of greed. And it\u2019s ruined the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\"Peace<\/h5>\n
MARTA BENAVIDES<\/h5>\n

El Salvador War Resistance Leader and Peace Activist <\/b>
\nRev. Marta Benavides is a Salvadoran theologian, ordained minister, permaculturist, educator, and artist<\/strong>. She is one of the last surviving activists from a group of human rights and peace advocates who began their work during the 1970s in a rising climate of repression in Latin America. Since 1992 she has been the director of the International Institute for Cooperation Amongst Peoples<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 1980s, the peace activist and ordained pastor who chose \u201cto live and not die for the revolution\u201d headed the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid, a group sponsored by the Archbishop \u00d3scar Romero to provide support to the victims of violence in El Salvador. <\/span>Romero\u00a0was assassinated<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in 1980.\u00a0Benavides then worked for the next decade to bring an end to the war in her country, and achieve a negotiated settlement under the UN. She was a\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong> nominee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“In countries like mine, people have been killed to be quiet. To know that any day, anytime, you\u2019re going to be killed, you don\u2019t know how, but it\u2019s coming.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
JEREMY SCAHILL<\/span><\/h5>\n

Investigative Journalist and Author \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Jeremy Scahill is a founding editor<\/strong> of the online news publication <\/span>The Intercept<\/span><\/a> (which is both widely regarded and not without<\/span> controversies<\/span><\/a>) and author of <\/strong><\/span>Blackwater: The Rise of the World\u2019s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/i><\/strong> which won the George Polk Book Award. His book <\/span>Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield<\/i><\/strong> was published by Nation Books in 2013. The <\/span>documentary film<\/span><\/a> of the same name, produced, narrated and co-written by Scahill, was released in 2013, including a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and it was nominated for an Academy Award. His twitter feed is @jeremyscahill<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

More:<\/strong> Scahill ticked off Real Time<\/em> host Bill Maher<\/a> by backing out of an appearance after Maher’s show booked conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.\u00a0\u201cHe has ample venues to spew his hateful diatribes,” Scahill tweeted. “There is no value in \u2018debating\u2019 him.”<\/p>\n

“You had this utter scandal that emanated from the highest echelons of power, and the Reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
PIERRE SPREY<\/span><\/h5>\n

Co-designer F-16 fighter aircraft, Former Defense Analyst, Pentagon <\/b><\/p>\n

Pierre Sprey was a defense analyst<\/strong> at the Pentagon and a member of the self-dubbed ‘<\/span>Fighter Mafia<\/b><\/a>‘, which advocated the use of energy maneuverability theory in fighter design. Sprey was educated at Yale and Cornell where he studied mathematical statistics and operations research. He subsequently worked at Grumman Aircraft as a consulting statistician. From 1966 to 1970 he was a special assistant at the US Office of the Secretary of Defense. He currently works, naturally, as… a record producer<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

More:\u00a0<\/b>Foxtrotalpha’s Tyler Rogoway wrote of Sprey<\/a>, “Mr. Sprey’s opinions on the F-22, F-35 and many other weapons platforms that came before them have been passed around for years, if not decades within the aerospace and defense community. There is no doubt about it, Mr. Sprey is a controversial figure, and I do enjoy listening to him largely for entertainment purposes. I do agree with some of what he says, at least at face value, but…he is like a used car salesman, he only shows you what he wants you to see.”<\/p>\n

Sprey: “The first time an executive does that and he collects 2.5 million dollars he says ‘Wow, this is a good business to be in.’ And within moments of that realization he is now no longer in the business of selling airplanes, he is in the business of selling bribes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\"Chris<\/h5>\n
CHRIS HEDGES<\/span><\/h5>\n

Former War Correspondent, The New York Times<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Chris Hedges wears several hats: Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist<\/strong>, <\/span>New York Times<\/i><\/strong> best-selling author, <\/strong>former professor at Princeton University, activist, and… ordained Presbyterian minister<\/strong>. He has written 11 books, including <\/span>Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt<\/span><\/i> (2012), which he co-authored with cartoonist Joe Sacco. His other books include <\/span>Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt<\/span><\/i>, (2015) <\/span>Death of the Liberal Class<\/span><\/i> (2010), <\/span>Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle<\/span><\/i> (2009), <\/span>I Don\u2019t Believe in Atheists<\/span><\/i> (2008) and the best-selling <\/span>American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America<\/span><\/i> (2008). <\/span><\/p>\n

His book <\/span>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning<\/span><\/i> (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact<\/em>, on RT (Russia Today) America.<\/span>\u00a0Hedges has described himself as a socialist, and even, or more specifically, as “a Christian anarchist.” He is married to Canadian actress <\/span>Eunice Wong<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Side note<\/strong>: Hedges once founded an underground newspaper at his boarding school that was banned by the administration and resulted in his being put on probation.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no hope of ending war, because there\u2019s always a small cabal of people for whom war is really, really good business.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY<\/span><\/h5>\n

Activist; Served in U.S. House of Representatives, 1997-2003, 2005-’07<\/b><\/p>\n

As a member of the Democratic Party, Cynthia McKinney served six terms in the United States House of Representatives<\/strong>. She was the first black woman to represent Georgia in the House<\/strong>. While serving in Congress, McKinney: advocated unsealing records pertaining to the CIA’s role in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., supported anti-war legislation and introduced articles of impeachment against President George H.W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. <\/span><\/p>\n

She left the Democratic Party in September 2007 and in 2008 was the Green Party\u00a0pick to run for President of the United States<\/strong>, for which she received such disparate endorsements as Noam Chomsky, Roseanne Barr, rapper M-1, and\u00a0peace activist\u00a0Cindy Sheehan<\/strong>.\u00a0As an activist and speaker, she has opposed US military intervention around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Individuals operating in the shadows and never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus\u00a0for their own personal pecuniary ends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\"Middle<\/h5>\n
TRITA PARSI<\/span><\/h5>\n

National Iranian American Council, Author Treacherous Alliance\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Losing an Enemy<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Trita Parsi is the founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council<\/strong>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing interests of Iranian-American community. Born in Iran, Parsi moved with his family to Sweden at a young age to escape political repression, as his father was an outspoken academic who was jailed both under the reign of the Shah, and later under Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. <\/span><\/p>\n

Parsi holds two Master’s and as an adult, moved to the U.S.\u00a0to study foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies where he received\u00a0a\u00a0PhD in International Relations. Early in his career Parsi worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Iraq. His book Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>published in 2017, was called an “exceptionally well-written piece of reportage,” by Publisher’s Weekly<\/em>. “The book’s strength derives from Parsi\u2019s high level of access to key players on both sides.” <\/span><\/p>\n

He is on Twitter @tparsi<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

See more<\/strong>: PBS\/Tavis Smiley interview with Parsi<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“As this nuclear deal goes through, we\u2019re still dealing with a problem that the states of this region are collapsing and the void that they will fill you will see more violence and you will see more weapons.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
LAWRENCE WILKERSON<\/span><\/h5>\n

Colonel, U.S. Army (retired), Fmr. Chief of Staff to US Sec. of State,\u00a0<\/b>Colin Powell<\/b><\/p>\n

Lawrence “Larry” B. Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel who served in Vietnam<\/strong> as an observation helicopter pilot and in the US Navy’s Pacific Command in South Korea, Japan, and Hawaii. He served as chief of staff to General Colin Powell, while Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later Secretary of State. Wilkerson taught at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and served as deputy director of the Marine Corps War College at Quantico. Wilkerson has criticized many aspects of the Iraq War, including his own preparation of General Powell’s presentation to the UN, and has called Iraq War\u00a0intelligence “a hoax.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

More:<\/b> Not one to mince words, Col. Wilkerson hasn’t been afraid to criticize current President Trump, and said this year<\/a> that he’s “never been so concerned, as I am now, for the state of this country and world relations.”<\/p>\n

Quote:<\/strong>\u00a0“This revolving door keeps the national security elite very small, and very wealthy, and increasing its wealth as it goes up the chain. To the extent that then when you get to the top as Cheney did, then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country too.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
CLARE SHORT<\/span><\/h5>\n

British Minister for International Development (1997-2003)<\/b><\/p>\n

Clare Short is a British politician who was the Member of Parliamen<\/strong>t from 1983 to 2010 (first as a Labour Party MP, but later as an Independent). She stood down as a Member of Parliament at the 2010 general election. Short was a highly regarded Secretary of State for International Development in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 until her resignation from that post in protest six years later. She has been very critical of Blair, and herself, regarding their role in the Iraq War, and is the author of An Honourable Deception?: New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power,<\/em>\u00a0(2004). In 2011, Short was elected as Chairwoman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative<\/strong>, a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the Guardian<\/em><\/a>: “If Iraq was the great tragedy of Blair\u2019s career, it was also, Short concedes, the tragedy of hers. ‘But it\u2019s an ongoing tragedy for lots of people who are dead, and a country that\u2019s let down. So compared to the enormity of that, Blair or me are nothing.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More:<\/b> Short once publicly told colleagues<\/a> that she had been reunited with the son she gave up for adoption 31 years prior. She called it “like falling in love, but less complicated.”<\/p>\n

Quote: <\/strong>“This very phrase war on terror is irrational. It\u2019s like saying a war on war. A war on violence, a war\u2026 It\u2019s nonsense. We are slipping into this possibility of kind of perpetual war.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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