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.