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Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for theCIA from 1967–1973, and led the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for years.[1] He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia.[2] He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys…
As the Iraqi resistance expands and perfects its attacks, the American military, like so many occupying armies before it, is turning to…
[We were to be the New Rome. As right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer (emphasis always on the “hammer”) wrote in Time magazine near…
Who will watch the watchers? The Second Triumvirate, formed to avenge Caesar, ended like the first, with only one man standing, but…
Most young Americans who enlist in our all-volunteer armed forces — roughly four out of five — specifically choose non-combat jobs, becoming…
Next Wednesday, April 23, North Korea, the U.S., and China will meet in Beijing to discuss a possible resolution of a crisis…
Next Wednesday, April 23, North Korea, the U.S., and China will meet in Beijing to discuss a possible resolution of a crisis…
The following essay by Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, is adapted from his upcoming book about American militarism, The Sorrows of Empire:…