{"id":313518,"date":"2026-03-16T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313518"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:00:30","slug":"war-is-a-racket-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/war-is-a-racket-7\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWar Is a Racket\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>War Is a Racket<\/em>\u00a0is a speech and a 1935 short book, by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki\/Smedley_Butler\" >Smedley D. Butler<\/a>, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare. He made a nationwide U.S. tour in the early 1930s giving this speech.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udca5WAR IS A RACKET by Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler\ud83c\udfa7\ud83d\udcd6FULL AudioBook | Greatest\ud83c\udf1fAudioBooks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26O-2SVcrw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, nicknamed \u201cOld Gimlet Eye\u201d (30 Jul 1881 \u2013 21 Jun 1940) was a senior US Marine Corps officer who fought in both the Mexican Revolution and World War I. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.<\/em> Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Is a Racket\u00a0is a speech and a 1935 short book, by\u00a0Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[232,1253,354,555,1105,769,1789,95,118,1790],"class_list":["post-313518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-capitalism","tag-demilitarization","tag-economics","tag-elites","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-supremacy","tag-smedley-butler","tag-us-military","tag-war","tag-war-is-a-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313519,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313518\/revisions\/313519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}