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War Certainly Is A Racket
By Iain Davis Source: Off-Guardian In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoing US President Eisenhower implored the world to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bulgaria, corporate media, CPA, Deep State, DynCorp, empire, EU, geopolitics, George Bush, imperialism, iraq, Kazakhstan, KBR, Lukoil, Moldova, MSM, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Smedley Butler, Syria, Teresa May, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yugoslavia
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Ransacking the World Economy Until “You’ll Own Nothing.”
Part 1: 5,000 Years Setting the Stage By Robert J. Burrowes According to a video published by the World Economic Forum in 2016, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’ See ‘8 predictions for the world in 2030’. Clearly, if … Continue reading
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Send the Mad Dog to the Corporate Kennel
By Ray McGovern Source: Consortium News Outgoing Defense Secretary Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis was famous for quipping, “It’s fun to shoot some people.” It remains a supreme irony that Mattis was widely considered the only “adult in the room” in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Zinni, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, iraq, James Mattis, Joseph Dunford, Mad Dog Mattis, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Pat Roberts, Scott Ritter, Smedley Butler, Syria, Trump Administration, US Foreign Policy, war, War is a Racket
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The War Conspiracy – Oligarchical Collectivism
By Ethan Indigo Smith Source: OpEdNews.com “Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is criminal attitude. In fact, we have been brainwashed. War and the … Continue reading
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Smedley Butler and the Racket That Is War
By Sheldon Richman Source: The Future of Freedom Foundation From 1898 to 1931, Smedley Darlington Butler was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. By the time he retired he had achieved what was then the corps’s highest rank, major … Continue reading