Video: Chalmers Johnson Speaking Freely
November 8th, 2009
Author of Blowback, The Sorrows Of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Empire, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept of American Hegemony. A former naval officer and consultant of the C.I.A., he now serves as professor Emeritus at UC San Diego.
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November 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Mr. Johnson is uninformed about the true attackers of 9-11. Odd that this slips is region of focus in light of all he is aware of.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I am always interested in what folks like Professor Johnson have to say, in spite of his
association with Berkeley. When they invariably place the blame on Republicans, as if
they are across-the-board responsible for all the world’s evils, and imply that democrats are champions of the people, they lose much credibility with me. One has only
to open his eyes to see the damage liberalism has done to this country in the form of
moral and morale decay, erosion of rights and liberties, and the dismantling of our
founding principles, to see that it has been, at the very least, a combined effort.
These politicians are universally corrupt at the top, but they often arise in politics
with lofty goals. Too bad that they soon discover that their efforts are ultimately in
vain, and they either get on board or face the consequences. The democrats ALWAYS seek
to further their plans for us through FORCE (they just strong-armed enough votes to
pass the abominable healthcare legislation even over the loud outcry from the people).
They pretend to care about the underprivileged in order to further their goal of
totalitarianism. They have no regard for our Constitution. They all make me sick.
The tendency of people of his ilk to lay so much blame at the feet of George Bush is
laughable, if it weren’t so tragic. Carter, Clinton and now Obama have been on exactly
the same page as Bush, serve the same masters, and have contributed more than their
share toward the demise of this nation, while all the while blinding the people, through
a complicit media, to the truth.
My observation of the liberals I know is that they can’t be bothered with the facts.
They listen solely to MSM, if anyone at all, “intuit” what they think is true, and
dutifully mark the box next to the name with the “D”. Talk about your mind-numbed,
dumbed-down obots. Sheesh. You know the saying: we get the government we deserve.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Bravo to Prof. Chalmers Johnson for his willingness to ‘think outside the box’ of Americanist ideological propaganda (that has held this country in thrall since WW II). After listenting to Chalmers Johnson, it does seem apparent to me that the man has not yet fully understood the role that what I term Modernist Ideologies have played in leading first Britain, the British Empire, and now the USA, the Americanist Empire, into a blind alley of increasingly mindless and self-destructive financial, ecoomic, political, and, definitely, militarist and imperialist excesses, the combined consequences of which have locked our country into an unalterable course of blind self-destruction, financial implosion and collapse, and the prospect of complete economic and political collapse. This collapse is not a consequence that can reasonably be projected to lie far in America’s longer-term distant future. No. This final, ultimate consequence of U.S. economic and political collapse can literally–just as Johnson has recognized–hit us and take place at any time. Never mind Prince Bismark’s aphorism that ‘God takes care of drunks and the American people’, for, despite what Americanist pro-imperialist cheerleaders mindlessly in effect assume, God is not an American, as an astonished American population is going to learn experientially very, very soon.
In sum, broke is broke, failed is failed, and dead is dead.
There is no reasonable possibility of serious, meaningful political and/or financial reforms lying in the near-time offing for our once-great country, for serious reforms would require a political and financial elite that thinks objectively, e.g., that is not thoroughly dominated mentally and intellectually by a mindless devotion to a strange melange of Modernist Ideologies–including but not limited to the Americanist, Republicanist, Democratist, Plutocracist, Militarist, Zionist, and Imperialist ideologies, a witch’s brew that can best be understood to define the essence of contemporary American hubris.
Indeed, contemporary American hubris has led our national elite financial and political classes to the point that they foolishly, stupidly believe they can decree that up is down, down is up, and bestow rationality and legitimacy on any concept or state policy that they dream up to keep their great criminal enterprise going full blast which their political puppets articulate to the uninformed American public. The preoccupation with and mindless devotion to Modernist Ideologies of our national elite classes has rendered them insensate to rational thought and objective analysis and understanding of everything they jam their greedy, power-lusting hands into. Reality remains reality, no matter how stoutly fools deny it.