War is a racket

This blog takes a look at Smedley Darlington Butler & the White House Coup (with a sidelong glance at Prescott Bush).

• Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
  One of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps’ long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
• War is a Racket
  The title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler in which Butler frankly discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare.
• The Whitehouse Coup
  The Whitehouse Coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

• Corporate Coup in the U.S.
  Scene from the 2003 documentary, The Corporation, about an attempted coup by industrialists (corporations) to overthrow president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US Government during the 1930’s.
• A video about the Business Plot – Part 1, part 2, part 3
• BBC Radio 4 investigation
  Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
• How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
  The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

Mai ‘68: Vive la revolution!

This blog looks at the watershed moment of May 1968 & digs up some classic Chris Morris.

• Paris – the student revolt of May 1968
  French newspaper Liberation has created a website of the videos & images focusing on the events of May 1968.
• Where has all the rage gone?
  In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
• Bushwhacked
  A Bush cutup by Chris Morris. Not serious but funny.
• Why the US has really gone broke
  The economic disaster that is military keynesianism: an article by Chalmers Johnson.
• Terror’s March Backwards
  Vintage Armando Iannucci & Chris Morris. ‘This wouldn’t have happened if I’d still been on BBC1′ Noel Edmonds. Satirical or just sick? You decide.

The assassination trail

This blog is back on the assassination trail with a look RFK, Martin Luther King & Malcolm X.

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• Robert Kennedy speaks in Indianapolis
  announcing to the crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated. April 4, 1968.
• The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  As Ever, a Conspiracy.
• Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?
  In 1968, Robert Kennedy seemed likely to follow his brother, John, into the White House. Then, on June 6, he was assassinated – apparently.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  “Secret Files That Would Have Proven James Earl Ray Not Guilty”
• Malcolm X
  Plots, Theories and Facts