"Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler"

[McKenzie]

Apologies if you already know about the book - if you don't there is a link to an .html copy below. .pdf versions can be found by running a Google search string of .pdf+sutton+"the rise of hitler" I just ran that string but the versions I found are on shitty Holocaust denial sites and I'm not posting links to any site like that.

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/index.html

Sutton's book posits the theory of an amoral finacial elite who profit from warfare and revolution and who have been around for decades. If we look at the huge profits made by Bechtel, Halliburton and others, from the Iraq war today, it's not difficult to believe that the underlying rationale for warfare is huge profits for a super-wealthy elite.

I know that there are geo-strategic reasons for invading Iraq, and I suspect the sabre rattling against Iran of late is underpinned by similar, geo-strategic considerations. Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to infer that warfare is in the economic interest of a super-wealthy cabal.

Major General Smedley D. Butler said something similar before in his book "War is a Racket" (link to a .pdf version below)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf

And there is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt which supports the hypothesis that the levers of power are controlled by figures who remain behind the scenes acting in their own interest:

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."

War is something no thinking person condones but it happens time and time again. It also makes a very small number of people obscenely wealthy...and it has done so for decades.

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[tofubo]

1. wall street is the cia, the cia is wall street (2quote m.r.)

the iraq war is two things:

a: it gave george the majic presidentin' shoes w/special 'war powers' for a 'war president'
b: massive transfer of wealth beyond your worst 'welfare queen' story

the whole 'cia got the wrong intel' is bullshit and everyone knows it

and just for shits and giggles, google "space pearl harbor"

[deutsey]

2. Look up Smedley Butler

He was approached by wealthy fascists in the US to stage a coup against FDR.

He outted the scheme...too bad we don't have anyone of his integrity around today.