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  2. War Is a Racket - Wikipedia

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    War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare .

  3. Smedley Butler - Wikipedia

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    In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he argued that imperialist motivations had been the cause behind several American interventions, many of which he personally participated in. Butler also became a advocate for populist politics, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups until his death in 1940.

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    Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...

  5. Military–industrial complex - Wikipedia

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    War Is a Racket (1935 book by Smedley Butler) War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007 documentary film) Why We Fight (2005 documentary film by Eugene Jarecki) Other complexes or axes. List of industrial complexes

  6. War profiteering - Wikipedia

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    War profiteering cases are often brought under the Civil False Claims Act, which was enacted in 1863 to combat war profiteering during the Civil War. [29] Major General Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps, criticized war profiteering of US companies during World War I in War Is a Racket. He wrote that some companies and corporations ...

  7. List of books with anti-war themes - Wikipedia

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    Voices Against War: A Century of Protest – Lyn Smith, 2009 [35] War and Democracy – Paul Gottfried, 2012; War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning – Chris Hedges, 2003; War Is a Lie – David Swanson, 2010; War Is a Racket – former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935; We Will Not Cease – Archibald ...

  8. Trump’s savvy memes and flashy edits trounce Harris in war ...

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    Trump’s savvy memes and flashy edits trounce Harris in war for precious views from young voters. Rikki Schlott. October 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM. There’s a new battleground in the election: TikTok.

  9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Smedley Butler

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    Also, Butler's book "War is a Racket" is given as a general reference. Again, a book by the subject of the article should not be used as a "general source" in the article, as people who are writing about themselves generally put themselves in the best light possible, leading to POV, misrepresented facts, etc.