War is a Racket that lines the Pockets of the Rich while Decimating the Life Quality of millions: What if Profiteering from War was Outlawed? With Lindsay Koshgarion Tonight’s show details the endless profiteering that comes from war. Tonight Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project returns to BLID to discuss the show focus, surrounding General Smedly Butler’s recognition that War is a Racket (1935) while today the Pentagon budget which is approaching $1T continues to be unaudited and/or improperly audited despite a clear history of corruption documented from Iraq and Afghanistan. The truth behind War, three lessons shared by Major General Smedley Butler are featured. He wrote there are only two things we should go to war and fight for, the defense of the homeland and the Bill of Rights. After retiring from his illustrious military career he suggested three main principles he believed in: (1) being against military involvement abroad and militarism in general ; (2) US military intervention abroad and the profiteering for big business it generated has gone hand in hand; and (3) was his recognition of the separation of US society by wealth disparity between the haves and have nots and it was the haves that started wars while sending the underclass to fight them. They have no skin in the game while being beneficiaries of garnering extreme profiteering from those conflicts. There should be No Profiteering from War Meanwhile, he Biden White House is opposing an audit of where all the Ukraine monies and armaments go ($115B) ostensibly because we already have auditing in place and to save taxpayer’s money. But the very agencies connected to that existing auditing, the State Department and its USAID institution, were the same entities that John Sopko, former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction wrote had obstructed his past Afghanistan audit. Referring to the State Department and USAID Sopko writes, “Agency officials now appear to have adopted a premeditated position of obstruction”. War continues to be Racket under Democratic & Republican administrations. Meanwhile our guest details unaccountability connected to Pentagon budget (858B) and spending “Not getting adequate oversight” and describes the Pentagon is the only major federal agency that has failed to pass an audit. For the last five years it has failed the audit and before that it could not even do an audit. In their last audit they were only able to account for 39% of their assets. Privatizing in Iraq of War (i.e. Halliburton etc) led to huge fraud of US taxpayer dollars… Auditing in Afghanistan revealed huge fraud in Afghanistan led by auditing by John Sopko , SIGAR Meanwhile, President Biden feigns concern funding to audit the criminal war we are complict in Ukraine is not needed as we sabotage peace options there. Siempre fieles, Pgatos 7/17/23 pgatos00@gmail.com