War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.