1. Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood
(Opinions/op-ed)

...hey wouldn’t have known about such warnings.” Fair enough. But surely many of them were familiar with the works of Chalmers Johnson, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, who...

2. Fraudulent Afghan Election Raises Odds Against U.S. 'Success'
(Opinions/op-ed)

... a negotiation from which, ominously, in light of the onslaught to come—the Taliban government demurred.” Moreover, Chalmers Johnson points out in “The Sorrows of Empire”(Metropolitan/Owl) that plans ...

3. Operation Northwoods and the 9/11 Truthers
(Opinions/Politic)

...hings that the U.S. government has done (and continues to do) to people in the Middle East. Or to use the term that Chalmers Johnson used in his book that makes the same contention, the 9/11 attacks w...

4. David Swanson's 'Daybreak'
(Opinions/Review)

...hem, issued one-man rule Executive Orders, and unconstitutionally usurped "unitary executive" powers that Chalmers Johnson called a "bald-faced assertion of presidential supremacy....dr...

5. Rise of Mercenary Armies Menace World
(Opinions/Daily)

... Iraqi mercenary force is plagued by high levels of desertion.   In “The Sorrows of Empire”(Metropolitan/Owl), Chalmers Johnson wrote, “The use of private contractors is assumed to be more cost-e...

6. 'Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order:' Part 2
(Opinions/Review)

...ilitarism threatens its own survival "as a functioning democracy" and the planet.  In his writings, Chalmers Johnson explains that America is plagued by the same dynamic that doomed pa...

7. America's 'Bases of Empire'
(Opinions/Features)

...ent ideology" for justification.In his 2006 book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic," Chalmers Johnson discussed the known number of foreign US bases by size and branch o...

8. Obama's Military Response In Afghanistan
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ghting turned Kabul, “once a major center of Islamic culture, into a facsimile of Hiroshima after the bomb,” author Chalmers Johnson writes in “Blowback”(Henry Holt).    The U.S. al...

9. A Dozen Books For Americans
(Opinions/Review)

...' the Pentagon has, more than ever, become a place to fear." "The Sorrows of Empire"(Henry Holt) by Chalmers Johnson, also tackles the issue of the Pentagon's spreading hegemony: &quot...

10. The CIA- Beyond Redemption
(Opinions/op-ed)

...e the Agency operates largely in secret, most Americans are unaware of the crimes it perpetrates in their names. As Chalmers Johnson writes in "Blowback"(Henry Holt), former long-time CIA di...