Chalmers Johnson
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Chalmers Johnson believes that we are traveling down a road that has too often been taken by nations that begin in greatness but descend into various forms of tyranny. In his just released book The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, Johnson develops the argument that in the months since 9/11, and with the full encouragement and blessings of the current administration, the United States can be seen to have "undergone a transformation from republic to empire that may well prove irreversible" (p. 19). The evidence that he presents - including the fact that the United States is now spending more on defense than at any other point in its history, despite the end of the Cold War and the absence of any other superpower - makes it hard to refute his point, at least as regards what we might call the political and military imperialization of the United
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