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  Herland Report: Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC: “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very …

  Herland Report: Paul Craig Roberts: We are having a propaganda barrage about the great Trump economy. We have been hearing about the great economy for a decade while the labor force participation rate declined, real family incomes stagnated, and debt burdens rose. The economy has been great only for large equity owners whose stock ownership benefitted from the trillions …