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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Jonathan Katz on ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
Description: Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Jonathan Katz on ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’Pub date: 2022-02-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA two-time Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Butler went from spreading American imperialism in the early 20th century to places like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, to despising it.
Smedley, born into a prominent Main Line Quaker family outside Philadelphia, was a celebrated Marine General during the height of American expansion, but became disillusioned later in life...