Introduction

We are who we are, for better or for worse, thanks to what smedley butler did. Over the course of his fascinating and blood soaked career, he was involved one way or another in american interventions around the world. He emerged from that journey the nation's most celebrated pacifist,. The man who first exposed the creation of the military industrial complex. In july, trained columbian mercenaries assassinated the haytian president. Some of the same mercenaries were also brought into bolivia ahead of its last election with orders to assassinate the protege of ave moralis, louis r sa. They played clips of this podcast at their press conference announcing it.