Smedley Butler

Smedley Butler   (soldier, whistleblower, activist)
Born	1881-07-30 West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	1940-06-21 (Age 58) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Exposed	• Business Plot • War profiteering
Interests	War profiteering
A US general who exposed the coup that financiers had planned for USA.

Major General Smedley Butler is a US general turned whistleblower who became a peace activist, arguing most famously that "War is a Racket".

Business Plot

Full article: Business Plot

In 1933 Butler was chosen to lead a coup in USA by a small clique of financiers, referred to as the Business Plot. He went along with it, gathering information until in November 1934, he blew the whistle on the plan.

Anti-war activism

In 1935 he published the famous "War is a Racket", exposing the workings and hidden purposes the United States' foreign interventions, detailing the subversion of the US government by corporations and other deep state powers.

 

A Document by Smedley Butler

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
File:Warisaracket.pdf	book	1935	War	The classic insider's denunciation of war. Easily readable in one sitting, it is sadly just as relevant to the situation facing humanity in the early 21st century as it was when first published a few years before the carnage of World War II.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:McCormack–Dickstein Committee	testimony,Congressional hearing	1934	McCormack-Dickstein Committee

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