A Response to “War: The Most Profitable Business in the World!”
After reading “War is a Racket” by Smedley Butler, the most decorated and honoured United States Marine, a very slim book, I came to understand the indisputable profitability of war. Reading the works of Anthony C Sutton, a pariah in intellectual circles for the truth he tells, (see “The Best Enemy Money Can Buy” and others) made the lucrativity of war a confirmed fact. My father, J D Tadaferua in the mid-1960s, before I was born, became skeptical of the ideals of Western democracy after he was given a copy of “The Power Elite” by C Wright Mills by Claude Ake, famous Nigerian political economist, with particular reference to the Military Industrial Complex. (more…)
