It’s Memorial Day and Americans are out barbequing, having a few beers, and spending time with their loved ones; they are celebrating to honor the fallen warriors who have died to protect our nation, our freedoms, and our way of life.
A Memorial Day Message From a Former US Marine
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Related:
“War Is A Racket” By Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Read By Jon Gold
by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
February 4, 2022
Smedley Butler is generally left out of U.S. history. If you bring up a guy who prevented a Wall Street coup against FDR, you do real damage to the tale of peaceful respect for government from the beginning of time up through January 6, 2021. If you mention the scandal that erupted when he recounted how Mussolini had run over a little girl with his car, it’s hard to leave out the U.S. government’s friendly relations with Mussolini.
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding, by David Swanson
Previously:
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
New book shows how the American general’s contempt for ‘the racket’ was born during his service in the 20th century ‘small wars.’
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
Michael Millerman goes over the article:
The Brahmins of Democracy: Communists vs. Patriotic Socialists.
Previously:
WHOSE INTEREST DID THE CREATION OF THE COLD WAR SERVE AND CONTINUES TO SERVE? CYNTHIA CHUNG ADDRESSES THIS QUESTION IN HER THREE-PART SERIES
Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War
THE RETIRED GENERAL WHO STOPPED A WALL STREET COUP
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.
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