013 - WAR IS A RACKET!

We glance into the fascinating and interlinked historical events of the Business Plot (to overthrow FDR's White House on behalf of a handful of wealthy industrialists), the Bonus Army's March upon Washington DC, and the figure of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler and his rallying cry against the profit motive as connected to warfare, in his book War is a Racket.

General Recommendations

• JD's Recommendation: Internet Archive: Classic PC Games
• JNM's Recommendation: They Shall Not Grow Old

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

Read

• War is a Racket by Smedley Butler (PDF)
• The 1932 Bonus Army: Black and White Americans Unite in March on Washington
• The Sad Tale of the Bonus Marchers

View

• Excerpt from The Corporation on "The Business Plot" and Smedley Butler
• Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Business Plot
• The Bonus Army: An American Epic - A Presentation by the book's authors

Listen

• Soldier Against Soldier: The Story of the Bonus Army
• War is a Racket (Audiobook)

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