Closing Argument with International Lawyer Richard Falk
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal closes its case with international lawyer Richard Falk providing the summation. Mr. Falk is a professor emeritus at Princeton University in international Law and has written over 20 books on international law, arms control, and United Nations.
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Lobbyists and War: Part 2
The Tribunal's close examination continues into how lobbying is used by weapons makers to bribe elected officials into rewarding enormous weapons contracts and to manipulate mainstream media into creating a pro-war narrative needlessly causing suffering and death across the globe.
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Lobbyists and War
The pernicious influence of lobbying within the U.S. war industry and how it creates needless suffering and death abroad is closely examined in this segment of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
The Revolving Door: Trading Public Service for Riches
The Revolving Door details the insidious practice of U.S. government employees or military officers revolving in and out government positions to work for private weapons manufacturers where they trade in their experience and contacts to generate larger weapons deals for their corporate employers. This practice leads to undue influence by these corporations while creating needless war and suffering aboard.
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Cornel West: Militarism and Spiritual Decay
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal interviews renowned author and philosopher Cornel West who provides a fascinating examination of the U.S. culture of militarism and its consequences on our society and the world.
Warmongering and U.S. Imperialism: An Interview with Jeremy Kuzmarov
The Tribunal interviews author, expert, and managing editor of Covert Action Magazine Jeremy Kuzmarov to discuss warmongering and influence peddling by U.S. weapons manufacturers.
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"Think Tanks" Malignant Influence on U.S. Foreign policy
"Think Tanks" pretend to be independent research bodies providing academic policy papers on various foreign policy issues. However, they are often funded by weapons manufacturers. Their pro-war narrative influences mainstream media, Congress, The Pentagon, and the President.
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A Conversation with Award Winning War Correspondent Jeffrey Stern
The Tribunal now interviews award winning journalist Jeffrey Stern about his reporting in Afghanistan and Yemen. Jeffrey is the author of "The Mercenary," "The 15:17 to Paris," and "The Last Thousand." His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, and numerous other publications.
Yemen: Another U.S. Target
The Tribunal now examines Yemen, a country whose eastern coast features an 18-mile-wide, 70-mile long channel that is a chokepoint to the southern entrance into the Red Sea. It is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. It is also a target of the U.S. military machine.
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A Conversation with Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist.
The Tribunal interviews Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008. Aikins received the 2022 Pulitzer for international reporting as part of a New York Times team that investigated civilian casualties from US airstrikes.
The Destruction of Mosul
The bloody destruction of Mosul by U.S. led coalition forces is examined in detail with particular emphasis on the complicity of U.S. weapons manufacturers. War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity are revealed by the evidence gathered in this installment of the Tribunal.
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Provoking China: A U.S. War By Design
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Dahr Jamail: Civilians Under Attack in the Battle of Fallujah, Iraq
Dahr Jamail was one of the few American journalists who were un-embedded in Iraq during the horrific battle of Fallujah. In this interview Dahr recounts the devastation caused by the relentless U.S. assault on this city. Dahr spent over a year reporting in Iraq between 2003-2011.
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Fallujah: The Bloodiest Battle of the Iraq War
This Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal video examines the US and coalition aerial bombardment of Fallujah and the resulting bloodbath occurring there. The Second Battle of Fallujah would become the bloodiest battle of the entire Iraq War.
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Shock and Awe: Episode 2
This segment of the War Crimes Tribunal concludes the investigation of the tragic opening bombing campaign against Iraq known as Shock and Awe, a military campaign that presaged the brutal attacks on Fallujah and Mosul and the rest of the Iraqi countryside over the next two decades. Those war crimes will be investigated in upcoming video segments.
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Shock and Awe: Episode 1
The Tribunal examines the role of U.S. weapons manufacturers in aiding and abetting the U.S. government in the commission of War Crimes against the country of Iraq with the opening bombardment of this nation and its citizens. The resulting loss of civilian life would be catastrophic.
Mairead Maguire and Dr. Aisha Jumaan: Gaza, Yemen, and Endless Wars
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and Yemeni-American Epidemiologist and Director of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation Dr. Aisha Jumaan discuss the conflict in Gaza, Yemen, and the role of citizen-activists in nonviolently opposing Endless Wars and holding to account those responsible. This is a fascinating discussion facilitated by Kathy Kelly.
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The Military Industrial Complex: Lt. Col. William Astore
The Tribunal interviews Lt. Col William Astore who shares his experience and knowledge working within and against the military industrial complex. This fascinating expose provides an insiders look at how wars are fostered and perpetuated by the MIC.
William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force and a current professor of history. He is a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national security professionals.
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News Media and War: Norman Solomon
The next evidentiary video episode of the Tribunal is an in-depth interview with journalist Norman Solomon, author of numerous books including "War Made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (2023) and "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death" (2005). Norman discusses the perverse role of mainstream news media in spinning a particular narrative and hiding perpetual war from the American public.
Military Moral Injury: Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug
The next video evidentiary episode of the Tribunal is a fascinating conversation with Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, whose work began soon after the events of 9/11 with her investigation of what she came to call “U.S. war-culture.” In more recent years, Denton-Borhaug’s focus moved to “military moral injury.” This invisible epidemic (linked to the frighteningly high numbers of servicemember and veteran suicides) springs from the intolerable moral pain and suffering experienced by too many of the 1% fighting on the front lines of our war-culture.
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The Final Bombing Campaign of Afghanistan
The new video episode of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal concludes the Tribunal's investigation of the U.S. war on Afghanistan with a focus on the last attempts by U.S. Presidents to bomb the Afghans into submission. It is a tragic story of a military empire using massive weapons in a doomed attempt to force its will upon an indigenous people.
A Healing Response To War: Doug Hostetter
Doug Hostetter travelled to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 taking with him thousands of pounds of food for Afghan families he knew would be caught in the center of a vicious war on civilians. His is a fascinating story of how one American responded to the war on Afghanistan. Doug Hostetter has worked to bring relief aid to every major war zone since Vietnam as a director or member of the U.N. teams of Pax Christi, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Mennonite Central Committee, and the United Methodist Office.
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The Uruzgan Slaughter: The U.S. Military Bombing of Civilians
The tragic bombing of Afghan civilians in the Uruzgan province by the U.S. military is examined in detail. These illegal attacks on Afghan civilians in this remote area epitomized the U.S. bombing campaign, its violation of international law, and the complicity of U.S. weapons manufacturers working hand in glove with the military.
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John Pilger Interview
War, Propaganda, and The Arms Trade: An Interview with John Pilger
May 2023
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The U.S. bombing of The Kunduz Hospital
This episode examines the relentless and deadly bombing by U.S. attack planes of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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