General Smedley Butler’s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.
"War Is A Racket" by Marine Major General Smedley Butler OpEdNews If General Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket" were required reading for all inductees, the mission would be clear. Butler spelled it out in his booklet: I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of ... |
American Free Press | US Arms Makers Post Huge Profits American Free Press Smedley D. Butler wrote a book entitled War Is a Racket.* In it, Butler, a double recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, described his military experiences: “I spent 33 years and four months in active service as a member of our country's most ... |
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the National Security State Center for Research on Globalization ... Communist Conspiracy”; Declassified Documents; NSC 68; The Pentagon as Keynsian Mechanism; The Military Industrial Complex; The War against the Third World; Shifting rationales; What is imperialism?; Case Study: Haiti; “War is a racket”. |
Private F---ing Citizen Filpo of the First Civilian Division truthout Butler grew more and more outspokenly anti-war and anti-capitalist, publishing "War Is a Racket" (1935), an exposé on the profit motive propelling the American military's imperial adventures, some of which he had led. "He saved democracy," Private ... |
