No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. (A.J.P. Taylor)
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]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.
[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In the World War 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?[/FONT]
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[/FONT]There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
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(General Smedley Butler)
[/FONT]I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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(Lord Acton)
[/FONT]Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
(Josef Stalin)
I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.
(Nathan Rotschild)
The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.
(Anthony Sutton)
Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
(President James Garfield)
By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
(John Maynard Keynes)
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
(Albert Einstein)
War has been throughout history, the chief source of social cohesion by providing an external necessity for a society to accept political rule.
(Bertrand Russel)
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
(John F. Kennedy)
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
(Dwight Eisenhower)
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
(James Angleton)
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