books by Chalmers Johnson

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.

... 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 CIA ...

... 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, ...

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 work ...

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 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.

“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.

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 critic ...

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 term ...

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 an ...

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 work ...

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.