War Is A Racket (1935): http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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#12War Is A Racket (1935): http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Written by a retired USMC Major General who won the Medal of Honor. Twice. And then saved the USA from a coup as a civilian.
In addition to writing a very well informed criticism of the 'war economy', he's definitely someone I'd buy a beer for if he were still alive.
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#13Mother Earth, Mother Board (1996) http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
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#14War Is A Racket (1935): http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Written by a retired USMC Major General who won the Medal of Honor. Twice. And then saved the USA from a coup as a civilian. In addition to writing a very well informed criticism of the 'war economy', he's definitely someone I'd buy a beer for if he were still alive.
Thank you for providing the additional context on the author to those unfamiliar. This came straight from the sausage factory.
Re: Ask HN: What are some articles that have aged well?
#15How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959) [http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-ask...]
Its hard to believe, someone was able to think something so relevant today, more than five decades back.
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#16The Ketchup Conundrum (2004) http://gladwell.com/the-ketchup-conundrum/
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#17"1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly.
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#18They write the right stuff : http://m.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff