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Kid Berwyn

(14,902 posts)
8. War Is A Racket
Thu Jun 13, 2019, 07:27 PM
Jun 2019

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War 1 a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

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https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Be suspicious. Be very suspicious. democratisphere Jun 2019 #1
War Is A Racket Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #8
WMD I suppose. shanny Jun 2019 #2
Then they were "Neocons." Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #9
Wow. Thank you for the information, and the link. shanny Jun 2019 #10
Trita Parsi is author of this analysis from a year ago (NY Review Of Books): Ghost Dog Jun 2019 #3
delisted in 2012 shanny Jun 2019 #11
Rather than odd, I'd say it looks like part of a plan, shanny. Ghost Dog Jun 2019 #14
I don't think it is a coincidence shanny Jun 2019 #16
MeK paid Bolton big bucks when the mustache was in the wilderness. Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #12
¡Bingo! Ghost Dog Jun 2019 #15
Kick dalton99a Jun 2019 #4
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2019 #5
You cannot believe a thing coming out of this administrations mouth. walkingman Jun 2019 #6
Smells like a Mossad black op. roamer65 Jun 2019 #7
K&R... spanone Jun 2019 #13
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