War Is a Racket

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incredible book, historic book, Smedley Butler's War is a Racket, which couldn't have been written by a more authoritative voice on this question.

Smedley Butler, a general with an incredible record of service in foreign wars from Mexico to beyond and saw the light when conspirators asked him to lead a coup against the democratically elected government.

He wrote War is a Racket about just how much money is wrapped up in decisions of war and peace, even in a democracy.

Why did you see fit to write a forward to the re-release of this book?

This was not my idea.

My editor actually pitched this idea to me and it was because I've named my nonprofit Task Force Butler Institute after Smedley Butler.

And I named, I gave my first nonprofit meant to hunt Nazis a weird name because it makes people ask questions, right? Most people outside of the Marine Corps don't learn about Smedley Butler and his impact on our history or his warnings about the military industrial complex and defense contractors or wars being started entirely to the benefit of the rich.

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What is it that they are doing and those acts that they are doing, who are those acts in support of and benefiting, and who's dictating that? Well, we get right back to these banking cartels, right? That's who's directing the policy, and the same is the case, you know, if you go back and read War is a Racket by...

Smedley Butler.

It's a very short document.

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And what was he? I forget if he was a rear admiral.

He was maybe even a General, he had some high title and this was, he was speaking about, I believe, World War I and he was talking about, you know, in his title, War is a Racket, to this pamphlet, you know, basically who benefits from this war and he's listing it off, you know, the DuPonts, the Rockefellers and so forth and he would list out the actual numbers, okay, from the things that they were producing to facilitate these wars to, to arm people, to, um, build ships and so on and so forth.

And then he would be, um, he would just list the, the ways in which this was benefiting, you know, the, the high financiers, the industrialists at the time.

But there's a lot of things that Roosevelt destroyed.

And this fascist coup, which we'll get into next time, that was, you know, ruined by one communist general that everyone loves to lionize and his stupid faggot book, War Is a Racket.

No, it's not a racket, you s- This is, this is, it's communist logic again.

All right? We, we adopt the left's-- The left's framing has been embedded so deeply into our paradigms that even though we think ourselves right-wingers, we mouth their platitudes.

In rapid succession, the first term was the SEC Act and Glass-Steagall.

I'm not gonna go into the intricacies of the banking business and what the banking business was at the time, but if you know that the WASP aristocracy was the American banking industry, then you, like them, saw this as a direct attack against their class.

All that s- That whole war is a racket and that whole money trust bullshit was actually, in typical fashion, created in its entirety by one Randolph Hearst And who was that lovely gentleman that paid off all of Winston Churchill's debts? Bernard Baruch.

Who was Bernard Baruch a representative of? Rothschild and Company.

Uh, time is, uh, is, is a really weird thing in terms of our, uh, subjective experience of it.

So this episode is my attempt to do like a verbal version of Smedley Butler's War is a Racket and give some of the inside scoop on the problems with academia in its, you know, modern incarnation that I spent so many years of my life in before I finally couldn't do it anymore and walked away.

And...

I have a lucky baker's dozen of 13 things that I see as significant problems with modern conventional academia that cause it to not do what most people think it's supposed to do.

Same thing, a lot of the standardized tests are made by private for-profit companies.

And then they're able to charge schools huge amounts of money to use their standardized tests.

So just as with the military and war is a racket, there's all these opportunities for perfectly legal, but still, you know, corrupt cronyist profiteering sort of practices that give companies that engage in them artificial profits.

And then, you know, to squeeze these profits on the backs of exploited students who are being charged ridiculous amounts of money for their degree.

So what do they do? They go looking to conquer other countries.

And don't most wars stem, as Smedley Butler, the former multi-star general, said so many decades ago in his book, Wars a Racket, aren't most wars fought for corporations? Well, I went looking during that break, and here we go.

This is dated back September, 2025, September 24th, 2025.

Trump's provocative taunt to Russia paper tiger or path to global catastrophe.

And of course, he was quoting things.

Well, you know what the...

the uh talmud says and and he was quoting things out of whack i said that's not the talmud you're quoting right now that's the torah the first five books of the bible and he he didn't know what he was talking he was just regurgitating stuff and as i tried to pin him down with his source what do you mean by that what's that about he clearly didn't know and i tried to explain to him look people are deceiving you they're just getting you to regurgitate lies and to believe hatred stop doing this don't be deceived and he thanked me i don't know what he did with the information but It was another example of how many in our military are listening, I think, to people like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, etc.

And now we have a piece from the Rare Foundation talking about the Fort Hood and what it's up to.

And as a serviceman who has been to these endless wars, uh, the great manipulation of these banksters, these financialists, indeed the monopoly called Lloyd's of London, uh, that's cost a lot of lives over these years.

Because war, you can read Smedley Butler's book, War Is a Racket.

Absolutely is-- war is a racket.

Um, and you'll hear all kinds of cry-outs that we're doing this the wrong way.

Well, maybe we're doing it the wrong way, but I don't think so because we're meeting a lot of goals without expending American lives.