Americans Who Tell the Truth :: Major General Smedley Butler

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by Robert Shetterly

posted Apr 28, 2009




Abbey	Ali	Anthony


Baker	Baldwin	Barsamian


Benjamin	Berry	Boggs


Bonds	Bourgeois	Burkes


Butler	Carson	Carter

Chavez	Chisholm	Chomsky


Coffin	Corrie	Davis


Debs	Douglass	DuBois


Edelman	Eisenhower	Ellison


Farmer	Gelbspan	Goff


Goldman	Goodman	Granny D


Grossman	Guthrie	Hamer


Hay	Hightower	Hughes


Humphries	Hurston	Ivins


Jensen	Jones	Jones


Keller	Kelly	Kelly


Kennedy	King	Kozol


Kucinich	LaDuke	Lange


Lappé	Lincoln	Macy


Mann	Mayers	McKibben


McKinney	Miller	Moyers



Muir	Munoz	Nader


Nearing	Parks	Phillips


Rankin	Robeson	Roosevelt


Rovics	Seeger	Sheehan


Simon	Smith	Stanton


Tenayuca	Terkel	Thomas


Thompson	Thoreau	Truth


Tubman	Twain	Waters


Wells	Wellstone	Whitman


Wicks	Williams	Williams


Wilson	Woodward	Wright


Malcolm X	Yalektit	Yeh


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Robert Shetterly's portrait of Smedley Butler

“I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of the racket all the time. Now I am sure of it.”

Major General Smedley Butler

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