Ken Silverstein is a Washington, DC–based investigative reporter.
The buyers come from all over the globe, bearing cash and complicated pasts.
The former finance minister of a notoriously corrupt regime in Angola is living in high style.
Corporate America spends millions lobbying to win permanent most favored nation (MFN) trade status for China, with its vast market and dirt-cheap labor force.
Unless the number of arms is reduced dramatically, peace is unlikely to hold.