Yes, War is a Racket

Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket in 1935. An excerpt from Wikipedia:

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the 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 very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

Butler confesses that during his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps:

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

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COVID Disinformation, Lies and Censorship Explored in Congressional Hearing

Here are at least a dozen major issues relating to COVID that corporate media outlets are actively refusing to discuss. The US govt has actively worked to keep you from discussing these issues on social media. I don't claim to know the answers, but I desperately want to hear these topics vigorously discussed.

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Details on substantial the CIA Interference in Ukraine for many years.

Mike Benz Explains: Mike Benz' discussion leads up to the recent NYT story about the CIA involvement in Ukraine, which intentionally ignores some of the important facts.

As stated by Scheer Post:

The New York Times recently ran a story called "The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin." Patrick Lawrence writes that these "secrets" only contained what the CIA "wanted and did not want disclosed," and were "effectively authorized" by the agency.

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Insulting Paper Declares that U.S. College Students are of Average Intelligence

From today's TGIF by Nellie Bowles:

We never meant to imply college kids weren’t brilliant: A study out of Mount Royal University in Canada has found college kids aren’t smarter than the average person of their age anymore. Paper title: “Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students’ intelligence is merely average.” See, college kids used to be smarter than the general population, when going into higher education was more of a selective thing. But now that so many people go to college, they’re all just intellectually normal. Which you could easily argue is great: More college for more kids! The paper was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology Cognitive Science. But then the commentary class heard about it, and they did not like this one bit. There was outrage! Are you calling us. . . average? The commentary class may be for equity in theory but in practice they need to be told early and often that they are superior. Not average, which is violence, technically. And so the paper was pulled. I’m completely serious that the reason is: Reviewers felt that saying college kids now are “merely” average is “demeaning.” Everyone gets a trophy. And everyone is above average.

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United States Interference with the Democratic Process in Other Countries

The next time you get pissed at the alleged "Russian Interference" in U.S. elections, keep in mind the dozens and dozens of time the United States has blatantly interfered with the democratic process in other countries. Wikipedia offers synopses of many of these U.S. transgressions. Here's the opening paragraph:

Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Hawaii, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

And here's yet another Wikipedia article with more information about the U.S. interfering in the elections of other countries.

Wikipedia has become severely compromised on numerous topics (see the interview below, Glenn Greenwald interviewing Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger), but these particular pages still seem largely intact.

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