Smedly can be introduced later, by myself or someone else. What is important is the game Smedly exposed. A game that plays on.
Confessions of an economic hit man. I don't have to tell readers here who John Perkins is. John is a modern Smedly Butler.
The death economy is a doom economy. The doom economy is a death economy. The death economy is a doom economy ...........................
QuoteDegrowth? What do you mean de-growth? People here are hungry!
* 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 [corporatism]. 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. - Smedly ButlerForty minutes in John mentioned Milton Freedman. Milton, a professional absurdist, hoodwinked America with reeking bullshit in 1976. De NEOLIBERAL shift. Which predated the post 9-11 Neocon diarrhea we suffer from to this day. 1976, another day when the Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists of the world mistook audacity for truth.
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