– Paul Craig Roberts: “Our Soldiers Died For The Profits Of The Bankers” (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):
Memorial Day commemorates soldiers killed in war. We are told that the war dead died for us and our freedom. US Marine General Smedley Butler challenged this view in 1933: “War is just a racket… our soldiers died for secret agendas of which they knew nothing. Capitalists hid their self-interests behind the flag, and our boys died for the One Percent’s bottom line. Our Soldiers Died for the Profits of the Bankers.” It appears 82 years later – nothing has changed.
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