Stories by Chalmers Johnson
A new book offers a controversial but ultimately convincing diagnosis of how the U.S. has succumbed to an unacknowledged totalitarian temptation.
Posted on May 19, 2008
For decades these self-professed saviors of the Western world helped precipitate U.S. foreign policy disasters like the Vietnam War.
Posted on Apr 30, 2008
60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008
A new book on disastrous trade policies makes it clear that it's time to dismantle the barriers that keep so much of the world so poor.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008
Welcome to 2008, a year of morally obscene, fiscally unsustainable spending. Watch as the military bloats and our standard of living sinks.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008
Charlie Wilson's War is a truly dangerous piece of pro-war propaganda from Hollywood.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008
A look at how and why the U.S. gravely failed in its response to 9/11.
Posted on Oct 24, 2007
An on-the-record master history of the CIA has finally been published, and it lesson is that an incompetent intelligence agency can be as great a threat to national security as not having one at all.
Posted on Jul 28, 2007
Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose.
Posted on May 17, 2007
With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire.
Posted on Feb 19, 2007
The dream of the Bush administration -– eternal global domination -- disappeared in Iraq. But it remains to be seen if the American people will choose to keep their empire or return to a constitutional democracy.
Posted on Feb 2, 2007
With the re-election of President Bush and the appointment of Porter Goss to bring the CIA under White House control, it becomes increasingly hard to see how the republic will survive.
Posted on Nov 27, 2004
America's 'Baseworld' is an overstretched, heavily militarized empire whose leaders are ready to stretch even further yet -- even, it seems, to the moon.
Posted on Jan 15, 2004
U.S. sanctioned assassinations have long been a covert part of our foreign policy. Now the administration is planning to make them official policy.
Posted on Nov 17, 2003
The noted author of "Blowback" dives deep into the fall of the Roman Republic and the prospective fall of ours.
Posted on Sep 16, 2003
U.S. war posturing toward North Korea and strong-arm tactics with South Korea come as Seoul is increasingly charting its own course to security.
Posted on Apr 24, 2003
