War is a racket

Lt. General Smedley Butler was the most decorated U.S. Marine at the time when he penned this, taken from his book “War is a Racket”:

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and 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 benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

 

Cenk Uygur

@cenkuygur

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15m

Where are the tapes? Epstein had video cameras in all the rooms. So, where the fuck are the tapes? Is it the government's absurd contention that there were no tapes? That this is not a classic honeypot operation? The way our media is ignoring that this is an obvious intelligence operation proves our media is complicit in the government's lies. And everyone knows there's only one thing the US government and media will lie in unison to protect. Their beloved Israel. Epstein procured cyber weapons for Israel. He arranged for international agreements for Israel. He donated to the IDF. Israeli spies stayed at his house all the time. The Israelis installed video surveillance at his house. And our media is still pretending they don't know who he was working for.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

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5h

Still no journalists are allowed in Gaza. By the time they will be allowed all evidence of the genocide will have been conveniently eliminated. And what impresses me: no complaints whatsoever about lack of access from international media

Dr Francis Young

@DrFrancisYoung

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18h

Today has felt like a very medieval day: ‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’