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I just started reading "Gangsters of Capitalism" which revolves around


Marine Corps General Smedley Butler, a two time Medal of Honor winner who went on to become a staunch anti-Imperialist himself, writing the short book "War is a Racket." Butler apparently thwarted the plans of a cabal of bankers and industrialists who wanted to overthrow FDR and install a Fascist dictatorship, the so-called Wall Street Putsch. I had never heard of that either.

Here's an excerpt.

(In response to this post by fishhoo)

Link: It was in Rolling Stone. Sorry. ;)


Posted: 01/23/2022 at 2:33PM



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