Chalmers Johnson (1931–2010)

Chalmers Johnson (1931–2010) was president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and author of the bestselling books Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire.

He was a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, and The Nation. In 2005 he appeared in the 2005 prizewinning documentary film Why We Fight.

 

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The good empire

EssayREGARDLESS OF WHO succeeds George W. Bush, the incumbent US president will have to deal with an emboldened Pentagon, an engorged military-industrial complex, an empire of bases, and a fifty-year-old tradition of not revealing to the public what the...

Sorrows of empire

EssayWITH THE FALL of Baghdad, America's dutiful Anglophone allies – the British and Australians – are due for their just rewards: luncheons for Blair and Howard with the Boy Emperor at his 'ranch' in Crawford, Texas. The Americans fielded...

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