{"id":22102,"date":"2016-10-27T19:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22102"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:23:59","slug":"must-read-of-the-day-dennis-kucinichs-extraordinary-warning-on-d-c-s-think-tank-warmongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22102","title":{"rendered":"Must Read of the Day \u2013 Dennis Kucinich\u2019s Extraordinary Warning on D.C.\u2019s Think Tank Warmongers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Must Read of the Day \u2013 Dennis Kucinich\u2019s Extraordinary Warning on D.C.\u2019s Think Tank Warmongers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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WAR is a racket. It always has been.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small \u201cinside\u201d 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.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 From Major General Smedley Butler\u2019s\u00a0War is a Rackett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich has just penned an extremely\u00a0powerful warning about the warmongers in Washington D.C. Who funds them, what their motives are, and why it is imperative for the American people to stop them.<\/p>\n

The piece was published at\u00a0The Nation<\/em>\u00a0and is titled:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Why Is the\u00a0Foreign Policy Establishment Spoiling for More War? Look at Their Donors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read it and share it with everyone you know.<\/p>\n

W<\/span>ashington, DC, may be the only place in the world where people openly flaunt their pseudo-intellectuality by banding together, declaring themselves \u201cthink tanks,\u201d and raising money from external interests, including foreign governments, to compile reports that advance policies inimical to the real-life concerns of the American people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As a former member of the House of Representatives, I remember 16 years of congressional hearings where pedigreed experts came to advocate wars in testimony based on circular, rococo thinking devoid of depth, reality, and truth. I remember other hearings where the Pentagon was unable to reconcile over $1 trillion in accounts, lost track of $12 billion in cash sent to Iraq, and rigged a missile-defense test so that an interceptor could easily home in on a target.\u00a0War is first and foremost a profitable racket.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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