{"id":65188,"date":"2015-10-19T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=65188"},"modified":"2015-10-18T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T03:29:17","slug":"war-is-a-racket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/10\/war-is-a-racket-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWar Is a Racket\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James “Jim” Albertiini<\/p><\/div>\n

The Record U.S. Military Budget!<\/em><\/p>\n

President Obama has been responsible for the largest U.S. military budget since the Second World War. This is documented in the\u00a0U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s annual \u201cGreen Book.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0military\u00a0receives more\u00a0funding than the rest of the 10\u00a0largest militaries in the world combined<\/a>\u00a0(China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea).\u00a0 For more details see http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/content\/record-us-military-budget<\/a><\/p>\n

These figures do not include additional military-related spending by the VA, CIA, Homeland Security, Energy, Justice or State Departments, nor interest payments on past military spending, which combine to raise the true cost of U.S. militarism to about\u00a0$1.3 trillion per year,<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0one thirteenth of the U.S. economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, over the next 10 years the U.S. is planning to spend up to a TRILLION DOLLARS (1,000 Billion dollars) to modernize its nuclear weapons arsenal that can already destroy the world many times over..<\/p>\n

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Most people are unaware of a rapidly expanding part of the U.S. Empire called military \u201cSpecial Operations.\u201d These secret forces now number 70,000 and are deployed in an astounding 135 countries around the world. For more details see https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/09\/u-s-special-ops-forces-deployed-in-135-nations\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What United States Marine Corps<\/a> Major General<\/a> and two time Medal of Honor<\/a> recipient Smedley D. Butler<\/a>, said decades ago remains true today: \u201cWar Is a Racket.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Butler said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious\u2026 It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small \u2018inside\u2019 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.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

End All Wars! \u00a0 Save Dollars, Lives & the Planet!\u00a0 Fund Human Needs! <\/strong><\/p>\n