War is a Racket
War is a Racket

Author: Smedley Butler

Publisher: Jovian Press

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 1537820796

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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.

War Is A Racket
War Is A Racket

Author: Smedley D. Butler

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781939438584

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"War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time. He had lead several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War. Despite his success and his heroic status, however, Butler came away from these experiences with a deeply troubled view of both the purpose and the results of warfare.

Maverick Marine
Maverick Marine

Author: Hans Schmidt

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0813146259

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Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.

The Racket
The Racket

Author: Matt Kennard

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1780329903

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'Kennard reports with devastating precision.' Naomi Klein While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard’s unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, Gael García Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. Now it’s time for the world’s citizens to also uncover the racket.

Smedley D. Butler, USMC
Smedley D. Butler, USMC

Author: Mark Strecker

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0786484772

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The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of the political issues of the first half of the twentieth century and an examination of a complicated, valiant man who shifted from Republican ideals to anti-corporate, left-wing populism.

We Who Dared to Say No to War
We Who Dared to Say No to War

Author: Murray Polner

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2008-09-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1568583850

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A compelling collection of speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more from the American antiwar tradition beginning with the War of 1812 offers the full range of the subject's richness and variety, with contributions from Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Patrick Buchanan, and many others. Original.

The Economics of War
The Economics of War

Author: Imad A. Moosa

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1788978528

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Bad things occur and persist because of the presence of powerful beneficiaries. In this provocative and illuminating book, Imad Moosa illustrates the economic motivations behind the last 100 years of international conflict, citing the numerous powerful individual and corporate war profiteers that benefit from war.

War Is a Racket (the Profit That Fuels Warfare)
War Is a Racket (the Profit That Fuels Warfare)

Author: Smedley Darlington Butler

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-01-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781481978552

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War Is a Racket is written by the most decorated American soldier in US history, Major General Smedley D. Butler. Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially start and benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour giving his speech "War is a Racket." The speech was so well-received that he wrote a longer version as this book with the same title which helped popularize his message. Lowell Thomas praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage" in telling the truth about war profiteering. This message has never been more relevant, as we see the war racket in full swing in recent history like never before in endless perpetual wars, i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Bringing the State Back In
Bringing the State Back In

Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-09-13

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780521313131

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Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., Feb. 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographies and index.