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Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for theCIA from 1967–1973, and led the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for years.^[1] He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia.^[2] He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.

The Guns of August

By Chalmers JohnsonAugust 20, 2010 Foreign Policy

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August.…

Liquidate Empire

By Chalmers JohnsonJuly 31, 2009 Globalization

However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think…

How to Deal with America’s Empire of Bases

By Chalmers JohnsonJuly 6, 2009 International Relations

The U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good…

Cost of Empire

By Chalmers JohnsonMay 27, 2009 Foreign Policy

There has been no public discussion by the Obama administration over starting to liquidate our overseas bases or beginning to scale back…

The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon

By Chalmers JohnsonFebruary 6, 2009 International Relations

Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may…

Voting the Fate of the Nation

By Chalmers JohnsonOctober 9, 2008 Blank

In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama called the forthcoming presidential election a "defining moment" in this country’s…