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MWC News
March 15, 2018
Throughout the 1990s, people were warning that retaliation was inevitable, especially from Muslims who were angry and outraged over the continuous killing of Muslim children in Iraq. Here at FFF, we were among those issuing the warnings. So was Chalmers Johnson in his great pre-9/11 book Blowback.
LobeLog
March 8, 2018
... the books that truly mattered to you, the ones that somehow prepared you, as best anyone can be prepared, for the years to come. One I return to regularly is his. I'm talking about Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIAÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
March 1, 2018
... go back to the books that truly mattered to you, the ones that somehow prepared you, as best anyone can be prepared, for the years to come. One I return to regularly is his. I'm talking about Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson,ÃÂ ...
The Nation.
March 1, 2018
You know how—if you're of a certain age at least—there are those moments when you go back to the books that truly mattered to you, the ones that somehow ... The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant and an eminent scholar of modern Asian history, who would in that workÃÂ ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 26, 2018
And shortly before The Post premiered early in January, Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, was .... By the way, Chalmers Johnson, just before he died, who had written three books now on our empire of bases, said to me, "It's impossible to change that.
The Manila Times
February 18, 2018
(The economist Robert Wade reported coming across whole shelves of books by List in Seoul bookstores in the 1970s.) During his long years in power, ... technology wherever they went. Chalmers Johnson, in a book about Japan's unique growth, called its government the “capitalist developmental state.
Del Mar Times
May 11, 2017
“If they know what they're doing, it really puts them up a notch in my book and makes me want to work with them.” ... The venerated agency that Sandra Dijkstra started more than 30 years ago has represented a long list of local legends — Mike Davis, Chalmers Johnson and Janell Cannon to name a few.
The Japan Times
April 8, 2017
Recently, the Liberal Democratic Party's push for constitutional revision and the potentially destabilizing policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have opened the door for change, making it a perfect time to revisit the work of the late Chalmers Johnson, a leading Japanologist and criticÃÂ ...
Huffington Post (blog)
December 3, 2010
On November 20, Chalmers Johnson, scholar of East Asian development and critic of American empire, died at age seventy-nine. While Johnson ... “Blowback” is apparently a CIA-originated term, but Johnson popularized it with a book of that name that became a bestseller in the wake of 9/11. The termÃÂ ...
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 ... in The New York Times, Ronald Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, wrote that the book was “a cry from the heart of anÃÂ ...
Toward Freedom
December 31, 1999
You know how—if you're of a certain age at least—there are those moments when you go back to the books that truly mattered to you, the ones that somehow ... The man who wrote that was Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant and an eminent scholar of modern Asian history, who would in that workÃÂ ...
Truthdig
December 31, 1999
And shortly before “The Post” premiered early in January, Ellsberg's latest book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,” was .... By the way, Chalmers Johnson, just before he died, who had written three books now on our empire of bases, said to me, “It's impossible to change that.
A Magazine of American Culture
December 28, 2017
Now that the Cold War is over, Chalmers Johnson has raised this question with renewed urgency in a book that is the perfect antidote for present-day Asia Firstism. In 1952, Garrett opined that, by the time we discover our republic has become an empire, "it may be already too late to do anything about it.
Del Mar Times
May 11, 2017
“If they know what they're doing, it really puts them up a notch in my book and makes me want to work with them.” ... The venerated agency that Sandra Dijkstra started more than 30 years ago has represented a long list of local legends — Mike Davis, Chalmers Johnson and Janell Cannon to name a few.
The UTD Mercury
April 24, 2017
Historian Chalmers Johnson said in his book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic that building an American empire “will inevitably undercut our domestic democracy and … the combination of huge standing armies, almost continuous wars … and ruinous military expenses have destroyed our republicanÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
April 8, 2017
Recently, the Liberal Democratic Party's push for constitutional revision and the potentially destabilizing policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have opened the door for change, making it a perfect time to revisit the work of the late Chalmers Johnson, a leading Japanologist and criticÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 16, 2016
In 2000, UC San Diego professor Chalmers Johnson expanded on this observation in his book “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.” Johnson, who died in 2010, argued that the ... In July, writing for The New York Review of Books, Gov. Jerry Brown reviewed “My Journey at theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post (blog)
December 3, 2010
On November 20, Chalmers Johnson, scholar of East Asian development and critic of American empire, died at age seventy-nine. While Johnson ... “Blowback” is apparently a CIA-originated term, but Johnson popularized it with a book of that name that became a bestseller in the wake of 9/11. The termÃÂ ...
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 ... in The New York Times, Ronald Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, wrote that the book was “a cry from the heart of anÃÂ ...
Truthdig
May 15, 2008
By now, there are hundreds of books on particular aspects of our situation — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bloated and unsupervised “defense” budgets, the ... His new book, “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism,” is a devastating critique of theÃÂ ...
NPR
March 1, 2007
Historian Carol Berkin in her book A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the Constitution argues that the nation's "Founders — including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania and dozens of others — envisioned a supreme legislative branch as the heart and soul of America'sÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
February 10, 2007
As in the previous books of the trilogy, Johnson, the president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and a former CIA consultant, continues to insist that we .... And while it is true the book presents Britain as a counterpoint to Rome -- an example of how a country can save itself by giving up its empire -- it isÃÂ ...
Asia Times
March 12, 2017
Critics may note "what goes around comes around" about the blowback suffered by those whose actions have misfired. The late Chalmers Johnson devoted an entire book to criticizing US foreign-policy under the title Blowback. However, once in a while ...
Truth-Out
February 19, 2017
Movies like Top Gun have enjoyed complete access to men, machines and bases. It's unlikely that a movie based on a script by Howard Zinn or Chalmers Johnson would receive the same treatment. This ideologically-rooted discrimination by the government,ÃÂ ...
Times LIVE
February 6, 2017
Weirdly, though, through what Chalmers Johnson terms "the crucial American decision to maintain a Cold War posture in a post-Cold War world", the US increasingly finds itself in a position where, as Cox points out, it still has much power but an ever ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 16, 2016
In 2000, UC San Diego professor Chalmers Johnson expanded on this observation in his book "Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
The Ring of Fire Network
September 15, 2016
Your book delves into these issues, these very important issues. I often think that these days sometimes you guys who are trial lawyers the ... of education, type of literary education that has them thinking in big terms. Most of them have abandoned ...
Sri Lanka Guardian
September 9, 2016
That accords perfectly well with Todd's thesis. The other thesis is the one advanced by Chalmers Johnson in his equally brilliant book The Sorrows of Empire, also published in 2004. His thesis is that the Americans are the practitioners of a new form ...
Antiwar.com
July 19, 2016
I began to imagine Who Rules the World?, Noam Chomsky's latest book, absorbed into a future X-Men: Apocalypse America. Or the late Chalmers Johnson's Dismantling the Empire as the basis for the next Jason Bourne romp. Or Ann Jones's They WereÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
July 19, 2016
It now blows back into the U.S as historian Chalmers Johnson put it in an earlier book, as winds from the storms of U.S.
Huffington Post
July 19, 2016
I began to imagine Who Rules the World?, Noam Chomsky's latest book, absorbed into a future X-Men: Apocalypse America. Or the late Chalmers Johnson's Dismantling the Empire as the basis for the next Jason Bourne romp. Or Ann Jones's They WereÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
July 14, 2016
This article reviews several books on American diplomacy including Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers.
MWC News
June 17, 2016
That "blowback," as the noted analysis Chalmers Johnson titled his great book, has then been used to (1) generate deep-seated fear among the American people; (2) increase the budget, influence, and power of the national security establishment; (3 ...
Truthdig
June 16, 2016
But as Chalmers Johnson wrote so eloquently and predicted with accuracy in his blowback, these are the sorrows of empire.And sooner or later, a terrorist will get one of these WMDs, that were non-existent in Iraq, and then the proverbial "merde" will ...
Antiwar.com
June 15, 2016
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, what we're witnessing is the case being made for the government to shift even more aggressively into the business of pre-crime: monitoring all Americans, identifying which ...
MWC News
June 13, 2016
The noted foreign policy analyst Chalmers Johnson titled one of his books Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, a book I would highly recommend today, along with all his other books. The book was written before 9/11. Johnson saidÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
June 3, 2016
My thoughts turned to MacArthur because of two books. .... It's sensational popular history, but with a couple CD's worth of documentation; to provide some scholarly cred, Chalmers Johnson reviewed the book favorably with some caveats over at the LRB.
Chimes
May 10, 2016
The late scholar Chalmers Johnson wrote in his book, "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" on how the Pentagon and an uncontrollable military-industrial complex have turned the U.S.
The People's Voice
April 6, 2016
In his book, titled "World in Crisis: The End of the American Century," the late historian Gabriel Kolko called America in decline, its influence waning, China, Russia, India, Brazil and other nations increasingly tired of its imperial recklessness ...
Truthdig
April 6, 2016
The portion of Article I, Section 8, cited above has become a dead letter, about as operative as blue laws still on the books in some American cities and towns that purport to regulate Sabbath day activities. ... In addition to Bacevich's fine article ...
Mediaite
April 6, 2016
Screen Shot 2016-04-06 at 12.19.24 PM The CIA has a division known as the Office of Public Affairs. Its job is to work with journalists and creatives on movies and projects, but often, what the OPA actually does when it provides its "support" is unknown.
Berkeley Daily Planet
April 1, 2016
Did we expect to reap less than a whirlwind? In his book "Blowback," the late Chalmers Johnson chronicled the ricochets from American foreign policy.
People's World
March 30, 2016
Did we expect to reap less than a whirlwind? In his book Blowback, the late Chalmers Johnson chronicled the ricochets from American foreign policy.
Huffington Post
March 25, 2016
The title and subtitle of a prominent book by political scientist Chalmers Johnson, not a radical by any stretch of the imagination, sum it up: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000).
Salon
March 24, 2016
The scholar and former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson used to refer to that Agency as the president's private army. Now, the commander-in-chief ... He is the author of "Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism," among other books. He may be reached atÃÂ ...
Concord Monitor
March 8, 2016
In this Feb. 2 photo, a detainee is seen in the communal area inside Camp 6 in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With the population at its lowest level since it opened in January 2002, there are more empty cells than full ones and ...
Truthdig
February 23, 2016
That's the real issue as the late Chalmers Johnson of "blowback" fame predicted in his books and lectures.
MWC News
February 9, 2016
That's what Chalmers Johnson said in his pre-9/11 book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, a book I still highly recommend, along with Johnson's other two books: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of theÃÂ ...
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
January 14, 2016
Kennedy notes the shift from the preceding 'church/religion centric' empire to the 'nation-state centric' model of empire between 1500 and 2000 in the title of his book. 2. Yes, Wolfowitz, Perle, Robert Kagan, et al. and PNAC had further driven America ...
CounterPunch
January 14, 2016
A 10-minute video of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, reported to be "at the centre of operations against IS," introduces us to the chaplains of the American empire.
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