Sunday, September 16, 2007

Chalmers Johnson

The trilogy by Chalmers Johnson
  • Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - http://books.google.com/books?id=tSrKgv8UIBsC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Chalmers+inauthor:Johnson&sig=yBjR-MHnYh1pnLo3clwMyIwMHJg#PPA5,M1
  • The Sorrows of Empire - http://books.google.com/books?id=WqwPZGBnf3IC&dq=inauthor:Chalmers+inauthor:Johnson
  • Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - http://www.radioopensource.org/chalmers-johnson-and-his-nemesis/
The publisher is Metropolitan

Johnson said about his book The Sorrows of Empire:
"I suggested the sorrows already invading our lives, which were likely to be our fate for years to come: perpetual war, a collapse of constitutional government, endemic official lying and disinformation, and finally bankruptcy. At book’s end, I advocated reforms intended to head off these outcomes but warned that ‘failing such a reform, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us.’ … "

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/CJohnson/cjohnson-con0.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-08.htm - Johnson has the courage to say that America dominates the world by the use of our military.

See www.jpri.org:
CHALMERS JOHNSON is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization devoted to public education concerning Japan and international relations in the Pacific. He taught for thirty years, 1962-1992, at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California and held endowed chairs in Asian politics at both of them. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and as chairman of the Department of Political Science. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics and political science are all from the University of California, Berkeley.

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