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...
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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...
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standard speech after 1933 was titled War is a Racket, where he denounced the role he had played, describing himself as "a high class muscle man for Big Business...
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Butler, Smedley (1935). War is a Racket. Chagnon, N. (1983). The Yanomamo. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Clausewitz, Carl Von (1976). On War, Princeton University...
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What a Racket!, also known as Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in 'What a Racket!', is the 21st studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician...
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bellum Syrian civil war The Report from Iron Mountain War as metaphor War Is a Racket Manchanda, Amav (Winter 2008). "THE FOREVER WAR/TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS:...
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A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees...
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Smedley Butler (category American anti-war activists)
became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he alleged imperialist motivations...
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to ploughshares Tax resistance Teach-in War Against War War hawk War Is a Racket War resister Women Against War Beckwith, George (ed), The Book of Peace...
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Military–industrial complex (redirect from War corporatism)
American Century Rosoboronexport Upward Spiral War profiteering Literature and media War Is a Racket (1935 book by Smedley Butler) The Power Elite (1956...
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Business Plot (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
expect much influence in the new administration." Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket (Los Angeles: Feral House, 1935, 2003), 26 Peter L. Bernstein (2000)...
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festivals around the United States. The Shock Doctrine American Century War Is a Racket Perkins, John. 2006 [2004]. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Plume...
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Adam Parfrey (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Saunders and Bill Devine (Feral House, 2003, ISBN 0-922915-81-4) War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General by Smedley D. Butler...
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Merchants of death (category Anti-war movement)
Neutrality Acts of the 1930s Business Plot Military-digital complex War Is a Racket Hauteclocque, Xavier (May 1932). "Zaharoff, Merchant of Death". The...
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Had a Face Like Yours... (1991) Shades of Brown (1993) Magnus Dominus Corpus (2004) Mein Trumpf (2017) Millions of Dead Cowboys (2020) War Is a Racket (2023)...
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The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe is a 2015 book by British investigative journalist Matt Kennard. The Racket is an investigative...
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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...
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Matt Taibbi (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books, former co-host of the Useful Idiots podcast, and publisher of the Racket News (formerly TK News)...
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United States occupation of Haiti (redirect from Caco War)
War Is a Racket. On November 17, 1915, the Marines captured Fort Rivière, a stronghold of the Caco rebels, which marked the end of the First Caco War...
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Numbers game (redirect from Numbers racket)
numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery...
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com/albums/Bolt_Thrower/War_Master/417525 AllMusic review Atkinson, Peter (28 June 1991). "Off the Record". Record-Journal. p. 29. "Bong-Ra – Full Metal Racket (2007,...
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are made to War is a Racket). Sacramento also exhibits a resemblance to Cuba, especially by the end of the book, when a revolution led by a messianic figure...
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the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2009-12-22. Butler, Smedley D. War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other...
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Chuck Baldwin (category American anti–Iraq War activists)
and speaking favorably of General Smedley Butler's anti-war book War is a Racket. Baldwin is frequently described as antisemitic. He believes that the...
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Nye Committee (category United States in World War I)
of the Great World War. Oxford University Press. pp. 301–330. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Butler, Smedley (1935). War is a racket : the antiwar classic...
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Table tennis (category Racket sports)
as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than...
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History of the United States Marine Corps (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
his disapproval of the occupation and gunboat diplomacy in his book War Is a Racket. The Marines would return to Haiti in 1994 and 2010. Marine Aviators...
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Interviewed On Australia's 'The Racket'; Audio Available". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. Retrieved August 1, 2009. "War Is The Answer". January 1, 2009...
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ISBN 9781566392532. Stanley, William (1996). The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador. Philadelphia: Temple University...
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Sun Racket is the tenth studio album by American alternative rock band Throwing Muses. The album was released on Fire Records on September 4, 2020, and...
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