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⛔️🇺🇸What’s This?!? Ukraine holds a Royal straight flush?!? U.S. interested in purchasing Ukrainian drones (More) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4142292-trump-us-interested-in-purchasing-ukrainian-drones.html #Ukraine #Trump #Republicans #Vance #Rubio #Press #Brussels #Media #London #USA #America #PACE #UK #Bahrain #Oman #Jordan #Kuwait #Qatar #UAE #Boeing #SaudiArabia #LockheedMartin #OSCE #CoE #News #UN #US #Ankara #Turkey #Dublin #Raytheon #Pentagon #USAirForce #USArmy #USMarines #Ireland #Headlines #Poland #Warsaw #12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
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⛔️🇺🇸What’s This?!? Ukraine holds a Royal straight flush?!? U.S. interested in purchasing Ukrainian drones (More) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4142292-trump-us-interested-in-purchasing-ukrainian-drones.html #Ukraine #Trump #Republicans #Vance #Rubio #Press #Brussels #Media #London #USA #America #PACE #UK #Bahrain #Oman #Jordan #Kuwait #Qatar #UAE #Boeing #SaudiArabia #LockheedMartin #OSCE #CoE #News #UN #US #Ankara #Turkey #Dublin #Raytheon #Pentagon #USAirForce #USArmy #USMarines #Ireland #Headlines #Poland #Warsaw #12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
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Another WWII outpost reemerges in the Pacific to support classified U.S. missions
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L’Allemagne va pouvoir doter ses futures frégates F127 de systèmes de combat américains pour 10 milliards d’euros
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Countering missile threats ‘left of launch’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/countering-missile-threats-left-of-launch/
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“UK parts in missile that killed Iranian schoolgirls”
by HG in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@uk_politics
@iran
@BylineTimes“Byline Times has linked the components used in the Tomahawk missiles which hit a girls’ school in Mibab, to two defence companies with a strong presence in the UK.
The US missiles murdered around 165 school girls on February 28 in a double-tap attack. The second missile killed sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a murdered child.”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/03/21/uk-parts-in-missile/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #IranWar #Tomahawk #Missiles #BAeSystems #Raytheon #Mibab #School #SchoolChildren #Massacre
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“UK parts in missile that killed Iranian schoolgirls”
by HG in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@uk_politics
@iran
@BylineTimes“Byline Times has linked the components used in the Tomahawk missiles which hit a girls’ school in Mibab, to two defence companies with a strong presence in the UK.
The US missiles murdered around 165 school girls on February 28 in a double-tap attack. The second missile killed sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a murdered child.”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/03/21/uk-parts-in-missile/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #IranWar #Tomahawk #Missiles #BAeSystems #Raytheon #Mibab #School #SchoolChildren #Massacre
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Profits of War: Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024Despite the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the scaling back of the “War on Terror,” Pentagon spending and contractor revenues have continued at extremely high levels, due in large part to the military’s focus on China as the new national security challenge. The U.S. arms industry has also profited enormously from the surge in foreign arms sales tied to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
From 2020 to 2024, the last five-year period for which full statistics are available, private firms have received $2.4 trillion in contracts from the Pentagon, approximately 54% of the department’s discretionary spending of $4.4 trillion over that period.
During those five years, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion).
By comparison, the total diplomacy, development, and humanitarian aid budget, excluding military aid, was $356 billion. In other words, the U.S. government invested over twice as much money in five weapons companies as in diplomacy and international assistance.
Record arms transfers have further boosted the bottom lines of weapons firms. These companies have benefited from tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel and Ukraine, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. U.S. military aid to Israel was over $18 billion in just the first year following October 2023; military aid to Ukraine totals $65 billion since the Russian invasion in 2022 through 2025.
Additionally, a surge in foreign-funded arms sales to European allies, paid for by the recipient nations − over $170 billion in 2023 and 2024 alone − have provided additional revenue to arms contractors over and above the funds they receive directly from the Pentagon.
This year’s military budget will continue to deliver a windfall to military contractors. Recently-enacted legislation pushes annual U.S. military spending beyond the $1 trillion mark.
The trends of the past five years follow a major increase in Pentagon spending over time. Annual U.S. military spending has grown significantly this century. The Pentagon’s discretionary budget — the annual funding approved by Congress and the large majority of its overall budget — rose from $507 billion in 2000 to $843 billion in 2025 (in constant 2025 dollars), a 66% increase.
Including military spending outside the Pentagon — primarily nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy, counterterrorism operations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other military activities officially classified under “Budget Function 050” — total military spending grew from $531 billion in 2000 to $899 billion in 2025, a 69% increase. Legislation passed in early July 2025 adds $156 billion to this year’s total, pushing the 2025 military budget to $1.06 trillion. After taking into account this supplemental funding, the U.S. military budget has nearly doubled this century, increasing 99% since 2000.
The shape of what President Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex” is shifting as military technology companies are being awarded an increasing share of the Pentagon budget and gaining political power. The military-industrial complex involves the collaboration of the uniformed military and the arms industry in promoting spending that serves their bureaucratic interests and corporate bottom lines, often independently of or in contradiction to considerations of America’s actual security needs. Today, the tools of influence used by the arms industry are consistent — lobbying, millions in campaign donations, the revolving door, and others — but they are also expanding. One of the latest trends, for instance, is that Pentagon officials are now going on to work for venture capital firms investing in new military tech.
What remains the most important issue is whether U.S. national defense strategy is aligned with the actual security environment the U.S. faces. The current cover-the-globe strategy, which stresses a quest for military dominance and the ability to intervene anywhere on the globe in short order — has not served the U.S. well in this century. The question is whether the U.S. can have a reasoned national debate on a new defense strategy that is not distorted by the influence of the wealthy weapons sector.
#^https://quincyinst.org/research/profits-of-war-top-beneficiaries-of-pentagon-spending-2020-2024/
PDF: #^https://quincyinst-2.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/08142811/Profits-of-War_Hartung-and-Semler_Costs-of-War_Quincy-FINAL-1.pdf
#USA #US #american #government #money #lobbying for #MIC #Pentagon #military #warmongers #militarycapitalism #LockheedMartin #RTX #Raytheon #Boeing #GeneralDynamics #NorthropGrumman #weapons #war #proxy-wars in #israel #Palestine #Gaza #ukraine #europe #middleEast -
#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunalTo register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar -
#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunalTo register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar -
#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunalTo register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar -
#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunalTo register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar -
#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunalTo register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar -
Just made this piece Titled “STOP WAR “ - this piece is a direct result of conflict and an appeal to the rationale of Mankind 2 End war . the company’s written surrounding the words STOP WAR are complicit and directly involved with The Indutrail Military complex and the red surrounding the letters represents the blood of those who have been killed by weapons made by company’s like #Raytheon #ibm #boeing #microsoft #microchip #lockheedmartin and more #nyc #michaelpaulinostudios #michaelpaulino
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Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department
http://www.antarcticfire.org/
#ycombinator #Antarctic_Fire_Department #Antarctica_Fire_Dept #McMurdo_Station #Amundsen_Scott_Station #South_Pole #Airport_Crash_Rescue_Firefighter #Military_Fire_Department #Contract_Firefighter #Contract_Fire_Department #Fire_Lieutenant #Fire_Captain #Fire_Dispatcher #Overseas_Firefighter #United_States_Antarctic_Program #USAP #National_Science_Foundation #NSF #Raytheon #Lockheed_Martin #Antarctic_Support_Contract #PAE_Group -
Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department
http://www.antarcticfire.org/
#ycombinator #Antarctic_Fire_Department #Antarctica_Fire_Dept #McMurdo_Station #Amundsen_Scott_Station #South_Pole #Airport_Crash_Rescue_Firefighter #Military_Fire_Department #Contract_Firefighter #Contract_Fire_Department #Fire_Lieutenant #Fire_Captain #Fire_Dispatcher #Overseas_Firefighter #United_States_Antarctic_Program #USAP #National_Science_Foundation #NSF #Raytheon #Lockheed_Martin #Antarctic_Support_Contract #PAE_Group -
Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department
http://www.antarcticfire.org/
#ycombinator #Antarctic_Fire_Department #Antarctica_Fire_Dept #McMurdo_Station #Amundsen_Scott_Station #South_Pole #Airport_Crash_Rescue_Firefighter #Military_Fire_Department #Contract_Firefighter #Contract_Fire_Department #Fire_Lieutenant #Fire_Captain #Fire_Dispatcher #Overseas_Firefighter #United_States_Antarctic_Program #USAP #National_Science_Foundation #NSF #Raytheon #Lockheed_Martin #Antarctic_Support_Contract #PAE_Group -
Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department
http://www.antarcticfire.org/
#ycombinator #Antarctic_Fire_Department #Antarctica_Fire_Dept #McMurdo_Station #Amundsen_Scott_Station #South_Pole #Airport_Crash_Rescue_Firefighter #Military_Fire_Department #Contract_Firefighter #Contract_Fire_Department #Fire_Lieutenant #Fire_Captain #Fire_Dispatcher #Overseas_Firefighter #United_States_Antarctic_Program #USAP #National_Science_Foundation #NSF #Raytheon #Lockheed_Martin #Antarctic_Support_Contract #PAE_Group -
From #CensoredNews
"#LagunaIndustries funded by uranium mining operations
"A court case reveals the history of Laguna Industries, which involved #RaytheonMissiles and #NewMexico taxes.
"Laguna Industries, Inc., is a New Mexico corporation wholly owned by the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. § 476 (1988 Supp. 1992). In the early 1980s, the Pueblo sought to invest capital accumulated from #UraniumMining operations and to find employment for tribal members who were unemployed because of the decline of the uranium industry."
"To accomplish this purpose, the Pueblo incorporated Laguna with the goal of obtaining federal contracts from the Department of Defense (#DOD). To assure DOD that Laguna would be competent to handle these contracts, Laguna contracted with #Raytheon, a major defense contractor, for technical, training, and management assistance."
https://casetext.com/case/laguna-industries-v-tax-rev-dept
#ReaderSupportedNews #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoLithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleLithium #RecycleCopper #WaterIsLife #DefendTheSacred #MotherEarth #ReaderSupportedNews
#FreePalestine #NoUraniumMining #Greenwashing #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism #HaulNo #UraniumMining #WhiteMesaMill -
From #CensoredNews
"#LagunaIndustries funded by uranium mining operations
"A court case reveals the history of Laguna Industries, which involved #RaytheonMissiles and #NewMexico taxes.
"Laguna Industries, Inc., is a New Mexico corporation wholly owned by the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. § 476 (1988 Supp. 1992). In the early 1980s, the Pueblo sought to invest capital accumulated from #UraniumMining operations and to find employment for tribal members who were unemployed because of the decline of the uranium industry."
"To accomplish this purpose, the Pueblo incorporated Laguna with the goal of obtaining federal contracts from the Department of Defense (#DOD). To assure DOD that Laguna would be competent to handle these contracts, Laguna contracted with #Raytheon, a major defense contractor, for technical, training, and management assistance."
https://casetext.com/case/laguna-industries-v-tax-rev-dept
#ReaderSupportedNews #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoLithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleLithium #RecycleCopper #WaterIsLife #DefendTheSacred #MotherEarth #ReaderSupportedNews
#FreePalestine #NoUraniumMining #Greenwashing #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism #HaulNo #UraniumMining #WhiteMesaMill -
Three #NativeAmerican Tribes are doing business with corporations responsible for war crimes in #Palestine: #Israel's #Elbit Systems, and the U.S. #Corporations of #Raytheon Missiles, #GeneralDynamics and #Caterpillar
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, May 28, 2024
TUCSON -- "Native American Tribes are partnered with corporations responsible for #WarCrimes in Palestine. The #ConfederatedSalishAndKootenai Tribe of Montana is in a partnership with #ElbitSystems, an Israeli weapons producer. #Salish and #Kootenai own #InternationalTowers, and in partnership with Elbit, built #SpyTowers, known as integrated fixed towers, on the #TohonoOodham Nation.
"Caterpillar, being used for the destruction of Palestinian homes, has a facility located on the #Tohono O'odham Nation's Tech Park in the San Xavier District near Tucson.
"Raytheon #Dine' Facility, is located on the #NavajoNation, south of Farmington, New Mexico, and produces missile parts for Raytheon, among the top war profiteers in Palestine.
Raytheon, and International Towers, are tenants at the University of Arizona Tech Park in Tucson.
"Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, lives in the western portion of the Tohono O'odham Nation, where the Salish and Kootenai tribal enterprise constructed the spy towers. Rivas describes the #Militarized partnership.
'#Infiltration today is in our faces, a blatant lack of integrity by tribes and institutions. #TribalGovernments are enticed by university programs for young people. The young people unknowingly become partners and #collaborators of the international military complex,' Rivas told Censored News today."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/native-american-tribes-are-partnered.html#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #CeasefireNow #NoWar #Boycott #BoycottDivest #Divest #FirstNations #Genocide #Occupation #Colonialism #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
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Three #NativeAmerican Tribes are doing business with corporations responsible for war crimes in #Palestine: #Israel's #Elbit Systems, and the U.S. #Corporations of #Raytheon Missiles, #GeneralDynamics and #Caterpillar
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, May 28, 2024
TUCSON -- "Native American Tribes are partnered with corporations responsible for #WarCrimes in Palestine. The #ConfederatedSalishAndKootenai Tribe of Montana is in a partnership with #ElbitSystems, an Israeli weapons producer. #Salish and #Kootenai own #InternationalTowers, and in partnership with Elbit, built #SpyTowers, known as integrated fixed towers, on the #TohonoOodham Nation.
"Caterpillar, being used for the destruction of Palestinian homes, has a facility located on the #Tohono O'odham Nation's Tech Park in the San Xavier District near Tucson.
"Raytheon #Dine' Facility, is located on the #NavajoNation, south of Farmington, New Mexico, and produces missile parts for Raytheon, among the top war profiteers in Palestine.
Raytheon, and International Towers, are tenants at the University of Arizona Tech Park in Tucson.
"Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, lives in the western portion of the Tohono O'odham Nation, where the Salish and Kootenai tribal enterprise constructed the spy towers. Rivas describes the #Militarized partnership.
'#Infiltration today is in our faces, a blatant lack of integrity by tribes and institutions. #TribalGovernments are enticed by university programs for young people. The young people unknowingly become partners and #collaborators of the international military complex,' Rivas told Censored News today."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/native-american-tribes-are-partnered.html#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #CeasefireNow #NoWar #Boycott #BoycottDivest #Divest #FirstNations #Genocide #Occupation #Colonialism #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
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Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
#UniversityFunding
#IsraeliUKArmsTrade
#RussellGroup
#LockheedMartin
#BAESystems
#Raytheon
#RTX
#Boeing
#GeneralDynamic
#NorthropGrumman
#RollsRoyce
#UniversityCollegeLondon
#SheffieldUni
#OxfordUni
#CambridgeUni
#CampaignAgainstTheArmsTrade
#CAAT -
Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
#UniversityFunding
#IsraeliUKArmsTrade
#RussellGroup
#LockheedMartin
#BAESystems
#Raytheon
#RTX
#Boeing
#GeneralDynamic
#NorthropGrumman
#RollsRoyce
#UniversityCollegeLondon
#SheffieldUni
#OxfordUni
#CambridgeUni
#CampaignAgainstTheArmsTrade
#CAAT -
Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
#UniversityFunding
#IsraeliUKArmsTrade
#RussellGroup
#LockheedMartin
#BAESystems
#Raytheon
#RTX
#Boeing
#GeneralDynamic
#NorthropGrumman
#RollsRoyce
#UniversityCollegeLondon
#SheffieldUni
#OxfordUni
#CambridgeUni
#CampaignAgainstTheArmsTrade
#CAAT -
Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
#UniversityFunding
#IsraeliUKArmsTrade
#RussellGroup
#LockheedMartin
#BAESystems
#Raytheon
#RTX
#Boeing
#GeneralDynamic
#NorthropGrumman
#RollsRoyce
#UniversityCollegeLondon
#SheffieldUni
#OxfordUni
#CambridgeUni
#CampaignAgainstTheArmsTrade
#CAAT -
Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
#UniversityFunding
#IsraeliUKArmsTrade
#RussellGroup
#LockheedMartin
#BAESystems
#Raytheon
#RTX
#Boeing
#GeneralDynamic
#NorthropGrumman
#RollsRoyce
#UniversityCollegeLondon
#SheffieldUni
#OxfordUni
#CambridgeUni
#CampaignAgainstTheArmsTrade
#CAAT -
Yay
More of what appear to be convenient #falseFlag attacks to #extendAndPretend in #Afghanistan.
It seems the #USA know how to deal with #airports (as they currently exist), but only when they belong to countries that they are one day away from evacuting from after 20 years of getting trilllions in #freeMoney to do what is effectively nothing but commit #warCrimes and line pockets of #militaryContractors.
#Kabul #kabulAirport #boondoggle #raytheon #lockheedMartin #micimatt #cantillonEffect