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War Is a Racket

By: Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
Narrated by: Jack Eddelman
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A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering.This was a speech given by General Butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930's, but it applies even more today! Listen as he frankly discusses, from his experience as a career military officer, how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He then suggests several practical solutions for reducing the pillage.

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I was already aware of certain quotes by General Smedley Butler but it's even more enlightening to hear his full treatise.

New perspective

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This book should be mandatory in every school. Everyone has to understand how war works and who makes the money.

Applicable to our time. Simply amazing!

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Should be compulsory reading in all Schools! Internationally. Hard to believe this was written after the first World War relevant today.

Sobering

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Very interesting insight into the US cabal from someone who witnessed it up close, but very short to be paying a credit for

interesting but very short

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