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Jack Cinamon

Arms-trade corruption researcher and parliamentary liaison at Shadow World Investigations, co-author of Making a Killing (Verso, 2026).

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Sep 8, 2026

Disrupting Peace

Disrupting Peace

How corrupt is the global arms trade?

Sep 8 · 44m

Bridget ConleyHOST

20:48

or where we are, the U.S., What do we learn about our democracies by analyzing the arms trade?

Jack CinamonGUEST

20:56

Yeah, so we might have to put democracy in quotation marks there.

Jack CinamonGUEST

20:58

But the arms trade is, it's self-serving, kind of self-producing cycle of, you know, money, arms, a lot of political influence.

Jack CinamonGUEST

21:07

But there's huge, obviously, corruption, as we've been talking about.

Jack CinamonGUEST

21:12

And then there's armies of lobbyists.

Jack CinamonGUEST

21:15

And, you know, these lobbyists actually provide so much money into our political systems, the US and Europe.

Jack CinamonGUEST

21:21

But in the US, it goes into the hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

15 MINS LATER

Bridget ConleyHOST

36:16

So who would you like to read this book? And what would you like them to do when they finish reading it? Jack, you get to go first.