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Greetings to the living and thank you for listening to the Up Is Down Podcast and double-plus-good thanks to all who support this work. Today on the show I present the seminal piece, War Is A Racket, written by Gen. Smedley Butler in 1935. The highly decorated General returned from "The Great War" to remark on his career of American empire building and contract killing as little more than organized crime, racketeering and wholesale murder of generations in order to inflate the profits of those who benefit from war. And those who benefit are never, ever the people who leave their homes to kill and be killed for the illusion of democracy, but rather the industrialists, manufacturers and bankers who finance all sides of war and who will never ever stop.
This, of course, wasn't only possible when the fledgling notion of western democracy was still in it's early adolescence in the early 20th century, but also just as alluring a promise even now in the age of non-kinetic and psychological war, the time of normalized conflict and T.V.-softened and detached, distant bloody things happening "over there" to "those people", never here at home.
I try to have fun with the reading and I hope you enjoy the take on war profiteering from an expert in the field nearly 100 years ago. The book is very short and packed full of data that dispels any myth about limited government and practical restraint in times of conflict, and demonstrates just how far the U.S. goes in subsidizing "democracy throughout the world" at any cost.
War Is A Racket, Gen. Smedley Butler -book link-
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This, of course, wasn't only possible when the fledgling notion of western democracy was still in it's early adolescence in the early 20th century, but also just as alluring a promise even now in the age of non-kinetic and psychological war, the time of normalized conflict and T.V.-softened and detached, distant bloody things happening "over there" to "those people", never here at home.
I try to have fun with the reading and I hope you enjoy the take on war profiteering from an expert in the field nearly 100 years ago. The book is very short and packed full of data that dispels any myth about limited government and practical restraint in times of conflict, and demonstrates just how far the U.S. goes in subsidizing "democracy throughout the world" at any cost.
War Is A Racket, Gen. Smedley Butler -book link-
https://www.bing.com/shop?q=war+is+a+racket+book&FORM=SHOPTB
***Executive Producers for Ep 126***
Sheila Lasater
Diana Robison
Seth Klann
***Associate Exec. Producers Ep 126***
Ryan Young
Brian Chapple
Susan D.
Jordan Dyer
Amy T
Gerard Carillo
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((((S U P P O R T THE S H O W))))
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