Contents: Preface -- 1. War is a racket: in memory of Smedley Butler -- 2. The causes of war -- 3. War versus peace …: the outcome of a binary process -- 4. Imperialism as an enterprise -- 5. Wars of aggression and false flags -- 6. War … profiteering, the military-industrial complex and the deep state -- 7. A taxonomy of war profiteers -- 8. Banks as war profiteers …