Lawyers, Guns, and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawyers, Guns, and Money write by Carol X. Vinzant. This book was released on 2015-03-31. Lawyers, Guns, and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This inspiring book, Lawyers, Guns, and Money by Carol X. Vinzant, recounts the heroic efforts of Tom McDermott, a lawyer and victim of the infamous Colin Ferguson rampage on the Long Island Railroad, to take on the gun industry. He is among the leaders of an innovative and promising strategy to circumvent the NRA's political power and courts constrained by interpretations of the Second Amendment. Through civil action he hits the gun companies where it hurts most: the bottom line. Making insurance difficult for manufacturers to get, he has helped reduce the number of cheap hand guns, "Saturday Night Specials," often used in crime. This is a riveting account of tragedy turned into action, and how the law can be used to defend victims rather than enrich corporations.
Apartheid Guns and Money
Apartheid Guns and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apartheid Guns and Money write by Hennie van Vuuren. This book was released on 2019-03-01. Apartheid Guns and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly fifty countries was built. In complete secrecy, allies in corporations, banks, governments and intelligence agencies across the world helped illegally supply guns and move cash in one of history's biggest money laundering schemes. Whistleblowers were assassinated and ordinary people suffered. Weaving together archival material, interviews and newly declassified documents, Apartheid Guns and Money exposes some of the darkest secrets of apartheid's economic crimes, their murderous consequences, and those who profited: heads of state, arms dealers, aristocrats, bankers, spies, journalists and secret lobbyists. These revelations, and the difficult questions they pose, will both allow and force the new South Africa to confront its past.
Traders, Guns & Money
Traders, Guns & Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traders, Guns & Money write by Satyajit Das. This book was released on 2007. Traders, Guns & Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Traders, Guns and Money
Traders, Guns and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traders, Guns and Money write by Satyajit Das. This book was released on 2014-02-05. Traders, Guns and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rulers, Guns, and Money
Rulers, Guns, and Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rulers, Guns, and Money write by Jonathan A. Grant. This book was released on 2007-03-15. Rulers, Guns, and Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The explosion of the industrial revolution and the rise of imperialism in the second half of the nineteenth century served to dramatically increase the supply and demand for weapons on a global scale. No longer could arms manufacturers in industrialized nations subsist by supplying their own states' arsenals, causing them to seek markets beyond their own borders. Challenging the traditional view of arms dealers as agents of their own countries, Jonathan Grant asserts that these firms pursued their own economic interests while convincing their homeland governments that weapons sales delivered national prestige and could influence foreign countries. Industrial and banking interests often worked counter to diplomatic interests as arms sales could potentially provide nonindustrial states with the means to resist imperialism or pursue their own imperial ambitions. It was not mere coincidence that the only African country not conquered by Europeans, Ethiopia, purchased weapons from Italy prior to an attempted Italian invasion. From the rise of Remington and Winchester during the American Civil War, to the German firm Krupp's negotiations with the Russian government, to an intense military modernization contest between Chile and Argentina, Grant vividly chronicles how an arms trade led to an all-out arms race, and ultimately to war.
