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Oil
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I spent 33 years and 4 months in active military service . . . And during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
Thus, I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republic
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We've managed to convince ourselves that it is economically more productive and of greater benefit to the nation as a whole to give a person a tank and body armor, training and a ticket to some foreign country than to invest the same amount in a decent education, some job training, a piece of land and help learning how to build a house on it and grow some food. The fact that we think the former is perfectly normal but would be outraged at the latter -- and see it as "welfare"-- is , of course, i
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― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
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