How To Smash the War Racket
Highlights from General Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" and ways to end war profiteering
Comrades: Pray for peace. In 1935, General Smedley Butler tried to warn us that “War is a Racket”. He was decades ahead of Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 speech about subversion, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1974 essay “Live Not By Lies”, and Eisenhower’s 1964 Farewell Address.
During Butler’s 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Phil…