Andrew Feinstein

But nonetheless, I think that there is a path to victory here, and the main contributing factor to that will be Zach being able to command a unity on the left.

So, for instance, already we know that Andrew Feinstein isn't running.

The Canada People's Alliance, I don't believe, has made a decision on whether or not to formally endorse Zach and all the Greens, but I think tacitly we can recognise Feinstein's decision not to run as, at least in part, being an implicit attempt to create a... a pragmatic approach to actually like giving a candidate the best shot of dislodging labour which is fantastic so if you added up greens and feinstein from last time i think you only need about a 10 point swing to win so that's sort of doable And I think the other key thing to recognise really is that that can make a really, really compelling offer here, which is that it's very difficult for Labour to motivate its vote in this election insofar as there's no credible threat from its right.

It can't say you have to vote Labour to keep out reform or the Tories or whatever.

Revenues are skyrocketing.

So today we ask, how do corporate profits incentivize war? To help us answer this question, I'm speaking with two arms trade experts, Andrew Feinstein and Janet Abu-Elias.

Andrew is the executive director of Shadow World Investigations, an organization that looks into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance, and militarism.

He's also an author of Making a Killing, How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen, the forthcoming book that inspired this season.

Thanks for listening to Disrupting Peace.

I'm Bridget Conley.

You can find out more about Andrew Feinstein and Janet Abu-Elias, as well as the resources they recommended at the links in our show notes.

Next week on Disrupting Peace, we connect the dots from the arms trade to personal enrichment, exploring how individuals profit from the business of war.

I've betrayed to leave the country because I've investigated and reported on corruption.

My colleague, Andrew Feinstein, is going to be the first witness for the prosecution against Jacob Zuma.

So apparently, me and Andrew, Dostoevsky also says that Andrew is an ANC spy as well.

Jacob Zuma was the president of South Africa after Mandela.

And that's ground.

And I mean, you know, we've done work before with Andrew Feinstein about, you know, the military industrial company is the most corrupt one anyway on the planet.

And it's bizarre.

I was watching an old episode.

The Greens came third with 4,000 votes.

In between was this guy, Andrew Feinstein, who ran as an independent left-wing candidate and a sort of...

Jeremy Corbyn, your party-esque vibe.

And he got 7,000.

They've got Hannah Spencer.

They've got party infrastructure.

At a certain point, if he loses too many by-elections, the party starts going, actually, we thought this guy was a winner.

Doesn't look like he is.

Polanski got beef with the Malis.

some may say some may say um i mean there's a lot of muslim voters in the area as well and even my experience on so for context i worked with andrew feinstein i helped run some of his comms who's that andrew feinstein he was like the independent candidate um and he his claim to fame is that he was in the nelson mandela government

the ANC oh you spoke about this a few weeks ago no photos no photos I've never seen photos of him but to be

fair to be fair though he told me he doesn't actually have any photos and he's a big journalist in like war actually and arms trades and these sorts of things so he's written a great book I forgot what it is But when I was campaigning with him here on the streets, it was so difficult because obviously like StarZone, we should keep it real here.

Today, we turn our attention to the genocide in Gaza, where weapons supplied by the United States and Europe are enabling mass killing.

This episode continues our conversations inspired by the soon-to-be-published book, Making a Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen, by Ruth Rhoad, Jack Cinnamon, and Andrew Feinstein, who's with us today.

Andrew is the executive director of Shadow World Investigations, an organization that looks into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance, and militarism.

We're also joined by Ahmed Al-Nauq, whose family story is told in the book.

[instrumental music plays] Thanks for listening to Disrupting Peace.

I'm Bridget Conley.

You can find out more about Andrew Feinstein and Ahmed El-Nok at the links in our show notes.

There, you'll also find a link to the Palestinian Deep Dive podcast and a link to pre-order Making a Killing.

The thing that's worth emphasizing is that the combined Green and Independent vote in the last election was 29%.

That was between the Green candidate and Andrew Feinstein, who ran as an independent and came in second.

I think it's definitely considered a Labour one, Green two seat.

It's one of those urban seats where Reform, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats just aren't really anywhere, and you're looking at a battle between the Greens and Labour.

There are limits to just simply thinking that you can grab the attention as a long-term strategy, I think.

But the, it just seems like the right decision to try and pick a fight basically, and pick this fight.

And, you know, the fact that Andrew Feinstein has decided to step aside should count for something.

But, you know, we should qualify all of this.