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Center for Research on Globalization
March 19, 2018
We who knew better, whether as activists, educated citizens or alternative journalists, predicted that this heinous act by our empire would have the blowback that the late Chalmers Johnson wrote about in his 2000 book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. One need not even haveÃâà...
LobeLog
March 7, 2018
I'm talking about Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant and an eminent scholar of modern Asian history, who would in that work characterize himself in his former life as a “spear-carrier for empire.” BlowbackÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 3, 2018
It was absolutely essential to establishing what Chalmers Johnson has called an "empire of bases" around the world. And it put the United States on permanent war footing. If we flash forward to the current moment, we have Donald Trump, who states that he has an "America First" policy. And what he'sÃâà...
Dissident Voice
March 2, 2018
Chalmers Johnson called it 'blowback'. Johnson was a principled Conservative, with an impeccable establishment background. He had his several 'road to Damascus' moments. Alas, he is dead, and his significant scholarship and insights have been almost immediately consigned to the margin. BadinterÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 1, 2018
He had, in many ways, seen the shape of things to come for what he never hesitated to call “the American empire,” including -- in that 2010 piece -- its decline. ... The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant and eminent scholar of modern Asian history, who would in that workÃâà...
The Nation.
March 1, 2018
I'm talking about Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant and an eminent scholar of modern Asian history, who would in that work characterize himself in his former life as a “spear-carrier for empire.” BlowbackÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 26, 2018
It's embedded in all 50 states of the union, one way or another, in the various expenditures, and very hard to get rid of. Almost impossible. I just don't see that you can say it's impossible. By the way, Chalmers Johnson, just before he died, who had written three books now on our empire of bases, said to me,Ãâà...
FAIR
February 23, 2018
It was absolutely essential to establishing what Chalmers Johnson has called an “empire of bases” around the world. And it put the United States on permanent war footing. Christine Hong: “The United States possesses something like 7,000 nuclear warheads. North Korea has an estimated ten, and yet itÃâà...
New York Times
November 23, 2010
Chalmers Johnson, an Asian studies scholar who stirred controversy with books contending that the United States was trying to create a global empire and was paying a stiff price for it, died Saturday at his home in Cardiff-by-the Sea, Calif. He was 79. The cause was complications of rheumatoid arthritis, hisÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
December 31, 1999
Chalmers Johnson, the author of “America's Empire of Bases” says: Once upon a time, you could follow the spread of imperialism by counting the number of colonies. The American version of colonies is military bases.” (January 2004). In other words, such military bases “have a meaning beyond militaryÃâà...
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