Conversations with History - May 7, 2007: Chalmers Johnson

Conversations with History - May 7, 2007: The Last Days of the American Republic with Chalmers Johnson



Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Chalmers Johnson for a discussion of his new book, Nemesis. In the interview, Johnson, an Emeritus Professor of the University of California, analyzes the impact of the American empire on democracy at home.



Comparing the United States to Rome and Great Britain, he argues that a combination of military Keynesianism, the Bush administration's attempt to implement a unitary presidency, and the failed checks on executive ambition point to political and economic bankruptcy.



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Resources and links to related material



1) Chalmers Johnson was the principal talking-head in Eugene Jarecki's excellent documentary that was released a few years ago about American militarism and the infamous "military-industrial complex" entitled "Why We Fight".

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3367179/BBC_Documentary_-_Why_We_Fight



2) TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 15, 2009: W(h)ither the United States?



Andrew Bacevich on PBS Bill Moyers Journal:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html



3) Read Arthur Silber's superb 10 part series,Over the World to get a sober, non-mythologized history and thorough analysis, backed solidly by facts, of American foreign-policy and its long, bloody and brutal track-record of vicious military intervention against one country after country in pursuit of what has always been its primary goals, i.e., hegemony and global dominance, despite the soaring rhetoric and ideological cover used to justify those military interventions, i.e., "bringing freedom and democracy", "humanitarian intervention" and other such easily disproved nonsense.



Part I:Is the Democrats' War, Too



Part II:the Stories We Tell Matter So Much



Part III:Open Door to Worldwide Hegemony



Part IV:"Splendid People" Set Out for Empire



Part V:Global Empire of Bases



Ah, Democracy...Ah, Peace



Part VI:Interventionism -- A Disastrous Policy Supported by Indefensible Ideas



Part VII:Mythology of the "Good Guy" American



Part VIII:History -- Religion, the Progressives, Empire and the Drug War



Part IX:Elites Who Rule Us



4) Glenn Greenwald - The looming political war over Afghanistan



Glenn Greenwald - Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere