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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 1984 by George Orwell War Is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Merchants of Death by H.C. Engelbrecht
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Arms makers engineer “war scares.” They excite governments and peoples to fear their neighbors and rivals, so that they may sell more armaments.
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