Saturday, March 20, 2010

Arms Sales Around the World Infographic

Business is booming!

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All that information is laid out in a useful new infographic created for GOOD by Column Five Media. Here, for example, are the items that are the hottest sellers on the international market:

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But what might be most troubling is that our old BFF's Saudi Arabia--a petro-monarchy with deep ties to Washington, where domestic charities regularly fund terrorism--are the biggest arms buyers, having accrued nearly $37 billion in foreign arms between 2001-2008.

Check out the entire chart at GOOD.