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 American economy has been great only for large equity owners whose stock ownership benefitted from the trillions of dollars the Fed poured into financial markets and from buy-backs by corporations of their …
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Speech from 1933 gives chilling reminder of Who rules Wars and the world
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 …
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