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Jebus-Zeus
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War Is a Racket

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

After Butler retired from the Marine Corps, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage". Thomas had written Butler's oral autobiography.

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Thanks. I read this book as part of a collection of anti-war writings just last year. I recommended it, whether you agree with its title claim or not.

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Its about controlling resources. A tool.

The way the world is set up now is highly unfavorable for the grass roots. Which is done on purpose of course. The propaganda used is a way to legitimize and to control public opinion to keep us in the dark.

On the whole its quite a study. Finding out more on what happens and why is concerning. Many pawns move round not knowing what they are doing chasing titles while doing so. On the whole these titles and labels do not matter at all. Some wake up to this fact while others do not. The ones that do tend to get thrown in the back of history and their work either hidden or destroyed.

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