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	Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Republic By Chalmers Johnson & Amy Goodman
		Chalmers Johnson is a retired professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego.
		CHALMERS JOHNSON: Nemesis was the ancient Greek goddess of revenge, the punisher of hubris and arrogance in human beings.
		CHALMERS JOHNSON: A space Pearl Harbor would mean, they believe, what the Chinese did in January, when they tested an anti-satellite weapon against one of their old and redundant satellites.
	www.countercurrents.org /us-chalmers020307.htm (5163 words)

	Chalmers Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chalmers Ashby Johnson is a professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.
		Chalmers Johnson was born in 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona.
		Interview with Chalmers Johnson, Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (2004)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chalmers_Johnson (367 words)

	True Blue Liberal » A Review of Chalmers Johnson’s Nemesis
		Chalmers Johnson is professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego where he taught for 30 years as well as at UC, Berkeley (where he was educated).
		Johnson points out America is plagued with the same dynamic that doomed other past empires unwilling to change - “isolation, overstretch, the uniting of local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in the end bankruptcy” combined with authoritarian rule and loss of personal freedom.
		Johnson hopes he won’t meet a similar fate but is as certain as Ozaki “that my country is launched on a dangerous path that it must abandon or else face the consequences.” We should hope we never see them, but wishing alone won’t make it so.
	www.trueblueliberal.com /2007/03/01/a-review-of-chalmers-johnsons-nemesis (7497 words)

	Chalmers Johnson, Author of "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" - A ...
		Johnson has penned a "big picture" book that fleshes out, in 2004, the worst fears that Dwight Eisenhower had about the growing military-industrial complex at the end of his presidency.
		Chalmers Johnson: I think it was the event that allowed people within our government -- we may call them neo-conservatives, or war lovers, or chicken hawks -- to pursue a unilateralist military agenda.
		Chalmers Johnson: One of the events that led me to write a previous book published in 2000 called Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was my first visit to Okinawa, even though I'd spent my adult life studying Japan as a professor, and writing about it.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/03/int04013.html (3321 words)

	An Empire Falls: Chalmers Johnson"s "Blowback" : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Johnson’s analysis of the foreign- and military policy of the US is unsparing.
		Johnson describes the political insensitiveness or tactlessness of the Soviet rulers before Gorbachev as one of the causes for the collapse of the USSR.
		Johnson’s critical assessment of the great ally, the secret model and incredible schoolmaster of German politics of the last 55 years, should be read as a necessary corrective of a widespread euphoric view of the US.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1663026 (672 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Cause for alarm
		Johnson argued that decades of U.S. involvement in various places had been misunderstood, and that for all the good things that had happened during the Cold War many bad things had occurred, too – and resentment of our interference in other countries was building.
		In 1996, Johnson was invited to Okinawa in the wake of a horrific incident: the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three American servicemen.
		Johnson said he was "appalled" at the size of the American military presence there, some 50 years after the end of World War II: 38 bases on the "choicest" 20 percent of the island.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040210-9999-1c10chalmers.html (1509 words)

	Chalmers Johnson: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalmers Johnson is a professor emeritus Professor quick summary:
		Chalmers Johnson was born in 1931 in Phoenix, EHandler: no quick summary.
		William blum is an author and critic of united states foreign policy who specializes in researching cia interventions and assassinations....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chalmers_johnson.htm (787 words)

	Chalmers Johnson on "Blowback"
		Chalmers Johnson finished this book over a year before September 11, which is when most Amerikans first heard the term "blowback." In it, he lays out the reasons why Amerika's chickens were bound to come home to roost--as indeed they did.
		Johnson admires both the Chinese revolution of 1949 and Deng's capitalist reforms--consistent with the aspirations of the national bourgeoisie--while he despises Mao.
		Johnson's explanation of this crisis is closer to MIM's than he might like to admit: it was due to currency speculation by First World finance capitalists and capitalist overproduction, which Johnson recognizes is relative overproduction.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bookstore/books/violence/cjohnson.html (1440 words)

	Chalmers Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire
		Among Johnson’s provocative conclusions is that American militarism is putting an end to the age of globalization and bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback.
		Chalmers Johnson reveals the corrupting weight of America's grand architecture of empire, the hundreds of foreign bases and formidable military capacity, maintained not by the enthusiasm of informed citizens but by the ability of the government to shroud its actions and assets in secrecy.
		Chalmers Johnson is the author of "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic" (Metropolitan, 2004) and "Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire" (Metropolitan, 2000).
	www.venusproject.com /books_authors/chalmers_johnson2.html (3502 words)

	An Interview with Chalmers Johnson, Parts 1 & 2 \| MetaFilter
		Johnson (Miti and the Japanese Miracle), professor of international relations at the Univ. of California, San Diego, describes how a misinterpreted nuance of the Japanese language led to a prolongation of WWII and the atomic bombing of two Japanese cities.
		Johnson argued in his book on Japanese development in 1994 that the US is at risk owing to Japan's superior state-managed economy, even if the blurb does not.
		Johnson was right that US economists were missing something important going on in Japan, but got carried away by his love of vitriol and his inclination to perceive sinister and well-organized forces behind recent events.
	www.metafilter.com /37390/An-Interview-with-Chalmers-Johnson-Parts-1-amp-2 (2593 words)

	Reviews Blowback
		Johnson argues that America's postwar foreign policy has been so ideologically driven to support anticommunism and then, "globalization," that the world is now a pressure cooker of resentment just waiting to explode, or "blowback"—a CIA term for "the unintended consequences of policies.
		Johnson, Japan and South Korea are not democracies, but Soviet-style "satellites." The United States is not guided by Wilsonian diplomacy, but rather by "imperialism," "hegemony" and a "megalomanical attempt to make the rest of the world adopt American economic institutions and norms."
		Johnson barely mentions the severe overcapacity problems and ill-conceived lending criteria of Asian countries that contributed to their economic woes.
	www.japanreview.net /review_blowback.htm (919 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Sorrows of Empire, by Chalmers Johnson, Paperback
		Johnson believes that a man can be cut in half, one part politically free the other half an economic slave to the state, which determines his earnings, who he contracts with and why, and how much of his earnings he’s allowed to keep.
		Chalmers Johnson, a pessimist, attempts to convince us that the U.S. is moving too far in the direction of militarism and empire-building, which is disadvantageous for four reasons: 1.
		Johnson points out that the Executive, and especially the Pentagon and the associated military-industrial complex, is growing in power at the expense of the Congress and the Judiciary.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780805077971&pwb=1&z=y (2050 words)

	BOOK REVIEW: Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
		Blowback is a term coined within the CIA to label the unintended negative consequences of intelligence operations, but Johnson extends its meaning to cover the negative consequences of American foreign policy, particularly in maintaining 800 military installations outside the United States.
		Johnson, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, is author of a dozen books on Asian affairs.
		As Johnson points out, the thought of an Italian military base on American soil is ridiculous, yet the reverse situation is unreflectively accepted as normal by the majority of Americans.
	www.rtis.com /touchstone/apr01/17BOOK.HTM (568 words)

	The Sorrows of Empire
		In Blowback, Chalmers Johnson, one of the most distinguished US historians of the Far East and a former consultant to the CIA, predicted the events of September 11 a year before they took place.
		Johnson outlines the cost of Empire, both for the American people and their Republic, and for the rest of the -world.
		Chalmers Johnson is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
	www.versobooks.com /books/ghij/ij-titles/johnson_c_sorrows_empire.shtml (282 words)

	AlterNet: The Disquieted American
		Author Chalmers Johnson was asleep in his San Diego-area home on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the telephone rattled him awake.
		Johnson spoke of the many military bases the U.S. maintains around the globe and the animosity the bases engender in so many countries.
		Johnson doubts it, but if he is proven wrong, he said, that's just fine with him.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18119 (2911 words)

	Iraqi Wars, by Chalmers Johnson
		During the Vietnam War, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon made their foreign policy decisions based almost exclusively on domestic political considerations rather than on grand strategy or intelligence estimates.
		Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a tax-exempt nonprofit educational and research organization located in California, and the author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
		This piece by Chalmers Johnson first appeared on www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, a long time editor in publishing, the author of The End of Victory Culture, and a fellow of the Nation Institute.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/johnson1.html (3510 words)

	The Agonist: Sorrows Of Empire
		Another major issue Johnson delves into is one that has made headlines recently: the role of mercenaries in our armed forces, and the ongoing privatization of just about everything our forces do except wage war.
		And Johnson is trying to tell us that the stakes in the contest for power in Washington have grown grave and the future consequences even more so.
		And Johnson’s simple genius lies in the fact that he is holding up a mirror for us to look at.
	www.agonist.org /archives/014947.html (957 words)

	Review: “The Sorrows of Empire” by Chalmers Johnson
		Chalmers' proposition is that the United States is very much a latter-day Roman Empire although very different in form.
		Johnson does a fantastic job of documenting the rise of the Empire but there's something missing from this catalogue of horrors.
		Chalmers' argument rests on the proposition that the entire enterprise is essentially driven by the Pentagon, that in order to justify its insatiable appetite for more 'toys' must perforce invent reasons to develop and then of course, find reasons to use them.
	www.williambowles.info /ini/ini-0217.html (1145 words)

	Chalmers Johnson and the Anti-War Movement \| TPMCafe
		Chalmers Johnson, the acclaimed author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, will be joining us next week to discuss his new book.
		Johnson is one of the few people I know who was for the Vietnam War and has had the grace to concede that the protestors (including me) were right and he was wrong.
		For those unaware of Chalmers Johnson, I highly recommend the reading of an opinion of his that ran in the Los Angeles Times May 4, 2000, and is currently republished at Common Dreams: "The Consequences Of Our Actions Abroad - Americans Feeling the Effects of 'Blowback'".
	www.tpmcafe.com /blog/housebrew/2007/jan/22/chalmers_johnson_and_the_anti_war_movement (2075 words)

	Darwiniana » Chalmers Johnson and the Roman analogy
		Chalmers Johnson in Nemesis is very very worried about the American republic/democracy, and proceeds in the book to pose a series of analogies to the Roman Republic and its decline into empire.
		Chalmers Johnson’s version doesn’t make this mistake of the later Roman empire comparison, and is a little bit closer to the mark, and a useful question about the politics of the current American system.
		But just at that point I have to challenge Chalmers conclusion: we are not enjoined to fatalism, and don’t have to repeat the mistakes of the Romans/Athenians, this is not cyclical recurrence with a fixed future, but a relevant repetition in a context of progressive cyclicity and an open future.
	darwiniana.com /2007/03/03/chalmers-johnson-and-the-roman-analogy (1251 words)

	Johnson: Churchill Not Alone In Pointing the Finger
		Chalmers Johnson wrote this in the Nation magazine on Oct. 15, 2001, about the same time Ward Churchill wrote his essay.
		And Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, has had no one call for his college position or his life.
		And Chalmers Johnson, whose head no one has yet called for, has released a new book, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic.
	www.kersplebedeb.com /mystuff/s11/churchill_not_alone.html (1130 words)

	California Alumni Association at UC Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Johnson returned to Berkeley for graduate study on Japan, but fell under the spell of Joseph R. Levenson, the University’s preeminent historian of China.
		As Johnson himself points out: “We Americans deeply believe that our role in the world is virtuous—that our actions are almost invariably for the good of others as well as ourselves.
		Chalmers Johnson left Berkeley in 1988 to teach at UC San Diego, retiring in 1992.
	www.alumni.berkeley.edu /Alumni/Cal_Monthly/September_2000/QA_-_A_Conversation_with_Chalmers_Johnson.asp (3342 words)

	The Chinese Peasantry and Imperialism: a Critique of Chalmers Johnson's Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chalmers Johnson's book Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power is important for several reasons.
		What I hope to show is that debates which take place within the context of elite theory cannot possibly refute Johnson and that to understand the real flaws in the book one has to examine the relevance of elite theory for studying social change and mass revolutionary movements.
		Johnson states that the CCP led a war-energized, radical nationalist movement, with socialist ideology merely an adjunct to
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=97734004 (609 words)

	Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson
		Chalmers Johnson explores militarism's roots deep in America's past and maps our expanding empire of military bases and the vast web of services that supports them.
		Johnson concludes that American militarism is putting an end to the age of globalization and bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback.
		Indeed, writes Johnson, there are something like 725 American bases abroad—probably many more, for that number is only what the Department of Defense acknowledges—with more added as client states in Central Asia and Eastern Europe join the American fold.
	www.ecobooks.com /books/sorrowsempire.htm (1826 words)

	Open Source » Blog Archive » Chalmers Johnson and his “Nemesis”
		Chalmers Johnson’s Nemesis is the third volume in an “inadvertent trilogy” — a sort of retirement gig, part of The American Empire Project, from an eminent UC Berkeley and UC San Diego scholar in Asian (especially Japanese) affairs.
		Donald Douglas, Chalmers Johnson and America’s Imperial Decline, Burkean Reflections, January 31, 2007: “Much of what Johnson denounces is the Bush administration’s advocacy of executive branch supremacy in the realm of national security, manifest, for example, in the adminstration’s early policies on the detention and torture of enemy combatants.
		Johnson for putting a significant dent in the power serving myth of America as the ‘city on a hill” And Kudos also to “Opensource” for featuring a guest that national ostensibly public radio would never touch.One significant reason why the empire thrives at the expense of democracy is because the media plays along.
	www.radioopensource.org /chalmers-johnson-and-his-nemesis (7323 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomdispatch Interview: Chalmers Johnson on Our Military Empire
		Chalmers Johnson, who served in the U.S. Navy and now is a historian of American militarism, lives cheek by jowl with his former service.
		Johnson is wearing a fl t-shirt that, he tells me, a former military officer and friend brought back from Russia.
		Johnson, who served as a lieutenant (jg) in the Navy in the early 1950s and from 1967-1973 was a consultant for the CIA, ran the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for years.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=70243 (4144 words)

	Chalmers Johnson - SourceWatch
		Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus of University of California, San Diego.
		Chalmers Johnson, "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic", Metropolitan Books, January 2004.
		Chalmers Johnson, "Three Rapes: The Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawa", JPRI Working Paper No. 97, January 2004.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Chalmers_Johnson (315 words)

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