Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning Denouncing The Merchants Of Death

By Kathy Kelly\PeaceVoice Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons 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. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes. On January 15, 2025, as the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a press conference will announce the Tribunal’s verdicts and release the report of 10 international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.& Of necessity, the evidence was culled from examining a limited range of devastatingly criminal U.S. “forever wars,” of brutal and needless wars of choice. The Tribunal focused on specific U.S. war crimes and crimes against humanity in the invasions, occupations and aerial assaults which followed the “9/11” attacks in 2001. What if we could enlarge the Tribunal, bringing before it war crimes occurring right now, the U.S.-assisted massacres we watch in real time on our phone and computer screens?& Certainly, one witness we would beg to appear for testimony would...