Pick your violence and find the corporation behind it

[skitty]

Found this from a while back:

"Korry, who served Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, told how US companies, from cola to copper, using the CIA as an international debt collection agency and investment security force.
Indeed, the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende, using CIA 'sub-machine guns and ammo', was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon."

http://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbusiness.theobserver

[TaylorS]

The original 9/11.

[RebelDog]

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

"I spent 33 years and four 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. 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 republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

Smedley Butler, Major General US Marine Corps

[skitty]

"War is a racket. It always has been........

Smedley Butler, Major General US Marine CorpsI have seen Butler quotes; but not your second paragraph. Found this:
http://www.warisaracket.org/

[Venas Abiertas]

Has anyone read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins? It's a 2004 book where he details his actions as an NSA advisor hired through an investment firm to make astronomical loans to Latin American governments for development projects that never helped their countries but did put big bucks in the pockets of American contractors and left the countries indebted to big banks and the AID. He also claims that the NSA ordered the assassinations of Presidents Omar Torrijos of Panama and Jaime Roldós of Ecuador for trying to develop their nations without getting into debt with the big banks.

It's an easy read and the author has his own website with the book as the name.

[MarxSchmarx]

The original 9/11.

What is that supposed to mean? Please elaborate and avoid cryptic one liners in the future.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

What is that supposed to mean? Please elaborate and avoid cryptic one liners in the future.

It's literal - it's the date of the coup against Allende.

[MarxSchmarx]

It's literal - it's the date of the coup against Allende.
Yes of course :blushing:

I was confused by the reference at first, thanks for spelling it out.

[skitty]

Has anyone read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins?I read a summary; and knew it would be worthwhile. As I recall, the USA sets up 'aid' packages that are designed to fail; and often include stipulations that include the sale of weapon systems. It's a lot like the bankers betting that mortgage loans fail. Then the USA sinks it's claws into the indebted country:mad:.