ADM home browse the video catalog television series info join our mailing list send us your feedback cool links to alternative media site map search our video catalog visit CDI's new security media center


   Selling Our Jobs
 
 
illions in tax dollars in foreign aid to subsidize U.S. arms sales. Billions more spent promoting these sales. Secret agreements that transfer thousands of jobs and high technology worth billions out of the United States.

The U.S. is the number one arms dealer in the world. But does all this wheeling and dealing really benefit America? Is the U.S. getting rich selling weapons or are we just selling our jobs?
 

Featured Experts:

Greg Bischak, Executive Director
National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament

Frank Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General
General Accounting Office

William Hartung, Author
"And Weapons for All" / World Policy Institute

Joel Johnson, Vice President
Aerospace Industries Association

George Kourpias, President
International Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Laura Lumpe, Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Federation of American Scientists

John Richards, Deputy Under-Secretary
U.S. Commerce Department

Produced: May 14, 1995
Running Time: 29 minutes
Show Number: 835

Price: $39
Internet Discount: $29

 
 

Center for Defense Information        1779 Mass Ave NW         Washington DC 20036        1(800)CDI-3334