Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important than Winning Them, by David Keen. Yale University Press, 2012, 304 pp. $38. "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest ...

Endless War Is a Racket. Endless war is a racket, and Trump has no intention of ending it when he can run it instead. Daniel Larison . Jan 11, 2020 3:52 PM.

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler said: "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It ...

Even if one discounts Smedley Butler's argument that“War is a racket”, the time has come to reevaluate America's support for expanding NATO. Stephen Bryen is senior correspondent at Asia Times.

The Drug War Facts website provides a detailed breakdown on annual federal spending on the war-on-drugs for 2013-’17. It estimates for Fiscal Year 2016, the federal government will spend $30.6 ...

In “War is a Racket” (full text here) he opens like this: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

To the editor: Think of war itself as a crime, or even the crime of all crimes. For human suffering, destruction and death, war among nations is tops. It would be hard to do more damage to the human ...

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It ...

After tensions have risen between the United States and Iran, some Libertarians around Butler wanted to speak out against the ...

In the short book “War Is a Racket,” author Smedley D. Butler called to attention the cynical business of industrialists profiting from mass human conflicts.

In response to Michael Hidek’s letter, “War is a racket,” it’s true that since Vietnam, there’s been little excuse for most of the wars we’ve fought, and I’m deeply sorry for how we ...