Merchants of Death

Philadelphia pro-Palestine Protests Target Weapons Manufacturers

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Protest, U.S. Aggression, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, April 9, 2924 The Palestine Federation of Trade Unions has requested that workers around the world carry out protests against companies that manufacture the weapons used by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza. In response, opponents of the Israeli offensive protested in early April against two weapons manufacturers headquartered in Philadelphia. Ghost Robotics, which[…]

Rally for Peace: Shut Down General Dynamics – No More Weapons for Israel

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Palestine, Resistance, Resource Wars, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, Weapons Sales, Zionism

According to event organizer Jack Gilroy, a group of over 100 people protested outside General Dynamics in a cold rain in Scranton, PA, Joe Biden’s home town. This factory manufactures ammunition required by both Israel and Ukraine to keep the U.S. backed slaughterhouse in business. Sponsors for this action include: Ban Killer Drones, The Merchants of Death Tribunal, Broome County[…]

Corporate War Profiteers Finally Put on Trial

November 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Capitalism, Corporatism, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Protest, Resistance, Weapons Sales

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, November 20, 2023 The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal began on November 12, 2023 and has weekly sessions on Zoom and later available on their Rumble channel. If you are interested in viewing the Tribunal or learning more about it, please visit their website at https://merchantsofdeath.org. There, you can register for[…]

The Economic Interests Behind the Conflict in Ukraine

September 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Imperialism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Hypocrisy

by Roger Keeran, published on MLToday, August 10, 2023 Anyone paying the slightest heed to the conflict in the Ukraine can appreciate the utter falsity of the American narrative of its cause, namely that the dictator Vladimir Putin embarked on an “unprovoked” war in a bloodthirsty effort to restore the Russian czarist empire. Alas, most Americans are not paying heed,[…]

‘Subpoenas’ Served on US Weapons Manufacturers

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Drones, Nuclear Weapons, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Brad Wolf, published on Common Dreams, November 11, 2022 What is it like to be so ashamed of the company for whom you work that you cannot bring yourself to admit you work there? Ashamed of the products they manufacture, the innocent people those products kill, the hundreds of billions of dollars of public taxpayer money squandered in a[…]

Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia

November 13, 2022 UNAC Editor U.S. Budget, Ukraine, US Military, War and Weapons

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2022 If the powerful leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed (D) and Jim Inhofe (R), have their way, Congress will soon invoke wartime emergency powers to build up even greater stockpiles of Pentagon weapons. The amendment is supposedly designed to facilitate replenishing the weapons the United[…]