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War Is a Racket

Written 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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Ideologies & Doctrines Political Science Military United States
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Being blind to the workings of the world is wrong.

Without and even with this firsthand review of the true workings of the world ,people will always tend to a childish lack of insight ...Even to this day. People still would seem to chose to see the workings of the world other then what it more truly truly is. Why is that. Why is said honours so successful . How are simple people so gullible to choose to believe it has nothing to do with money. Of course other ideas and lack of, add the the reasons why war is use on the populations. But why the use of war always remains so successful at blinding so many so easily. Makes and leaves people like me to pander the BIRTHING of wars to finding it hard to understand how people wander into war.

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Old Hat by today's standards

plus the narrator has a really hammy voice. I could've done without the intense sarcasm.

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