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A reference to US Major General Smedley Butler's Book of the same name.

"I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism ... Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. ... I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. ... Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

- Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps, 1933

The category is for a articles and documents that expose profit (often deeply corrupt) as the real motivation for waging war and perpetrating organised violence.