war is a racket

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• Video Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXlUUEbD1ak&list=PLNrd6lQRh0iZzSxgMo_zhz69clqkD0W9J&index=14
• John's website: https://antiwarwarvet.com/
• Lysander Spooner's "No Treason": https://www.scribd.com/book/426684842/The-Complete-Works-of-Lysander-Spooner-The-Unconstitutionality-of-Slavery-No-Treason-The-Constitution-of-No-Authority-Vices-are-Not-Crimes-Natura?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google_search&utm_campaign=3Q_Google_DSA_NB_RoW&utm_device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjwu_mSBhAYEiwA5BBmfyAeOQrLz1F1oT9Aza8SLWTGTM-SfHiyZxSx3YUYGB2dP5zsRPe63BoClx0QAvD_BwE
• David Grossman's "On Killing": https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316040932
• War and Moral Injury: https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Injury-Robert-Emmet-Meagher/dp/1498296785
• Achilles in Vietnam: https://www.amazon.com/Achilles-in-Vietnam-audiobook/dp/B07DR1DK7Y/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZN6NYE4VSPSX&keywords=achilles+in+vietnam&qid=1650411772&s=books&sprefix=achilles+in+vietnam%2Cstripbooks%2C169&sr=1-1
• War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=mhUu4ganRr&rank=1

0:00 - Introduction
6:20 - Pacifism vs anti-war
9:45 how our freedoms and security are hampered by protecting our freedom through military action
20:30 - Diffusion of responsibility as cogs in a wheel that run the machinery
26:30 - inalienable rights aren't inalienable, as we don't apply them to other groups
31:45 - Smedley Butler
34:15 - Is war a racket?
41:20 - Taxes, contracts, and Lysander Spooner's "No Treason" 
47:30 - Moral injury and the cost of state violence

• Philip Does
• Laverne Miller
• Jesse Killion

• A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music!
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• Great Video on Smedley Butler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-nUy2DalM&feature=youtu.be
• Butler's Letter to Mothers: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/smedley-butlers-message-mothers/
• War is a Racket: https://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Original-Smedley-Butler/dp/1939438586/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=war+is+a+racket&qid=1604453188&sr=8-3

• Philip Does
• Laverne Miller
• Jesse Killion

Shakin Shaner explores the life and legacy of Major General Smedley Butler, AKA, Old Gimlet Eye, who received two Congressional Medals of Honor.  He dives into his life after the Marine Corps and touch on his participation in the March of the Bonus Army, the Business Plot and his book, "War is a Racket".  This is truly a great story about honorable service, giving back and standing up for veterans, derailing a plot against the American Government and being true to oneself.  A great way to celebrate Veterans Day.