Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson was President of the Japan Policy Research Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He was the author of numerous books, including Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and Japan: Who Governs?Blog
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Guardian editorial in praise of Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010)
A special Guardian editorial highlights the importance of the work of Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010):
With 700 declared military bases, and probably 300 secret ones, around the world, Johnson likened his country to the Roman republic as it turned into an empire, which would find itself overstretched, bankrupted and then overrun. The uncomfortable parallel may have some life in it yet.
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Remembering Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson, whose critiques of the American Empire and its unsustainability—Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis—grow more powerful and uncanny each year, has passed away. We have lost a giant, but his work will continue to reverberate for a long time to come.
