Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S.
Judgement Day for the Merchants of Death
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal has released its final report on how Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX/Raytheon and drone-maker General Atomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Announces Its Verdict
After a 3-year-long investigation, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal has announced its final verdict.
Unfurling Love from the Window
On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States.
Houthi Causing Headaches For the White House
On April 7, the U.S. Central Command issued a press release boasting about their destruction of a mobile surface-to-air missile system in the Houthi-controlled territory of Yemen.
Tribunal Holds Defense Contractors Accountable For Murder of Iraqi Civilians
On March 19, 2003 the U.S.
began a massive airstrike on the city of Baghdad, bombing government buildings and marking the beginning of a brutal war to open new opportunities for U.S. imperialism.
Nonviolent Activists Blockade An Entrance Gate at General Dynamics
Activists blockade an entrance at General Dynamics nuclear submarine facility in New London with 27 lifesize images of nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer.
Ex-Colonel Calls CEOs of Defense Contractors Predatory Capitalists and Arch-Criminals of Empire at War Crimes Tribunal
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is one of the chief witnesses at the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
Subpoena Delivery and Shutdown of Lockheed Martin in San Francisco
On December 8, 2023, CODEPINK and about 100 friends shut down a Lockheed Martin office in San Francisco’s financial district in observance of “International Shutdown for Palestine”.
Merchants of Death Juror Testifies at UN
On December 11, 2023 retired US Army Col. Ann Wright testified before the UN calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Ukraine and condemned the merchants of death weapons makers who generate enormous profits from their products which needlessly kill tens of thousands of civilians.
