Dismantling the Empire Dismantling the Empire
American Empire Project

Dismantling the Empire

America's Last Best Hope

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Publisher Description

The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays

In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."

Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2010
August 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Henry Holt and Co.
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
594.2
KB

Customer Reviews

lifediva ,

Very thoughtful and relevant

Not liberal as a previous reviewer said. It's about America's place in the world. Just read the sample and you'll realize that he believes all recent administrations have contributed to current situations. This is a thoughtful treatise from a foreign relations specialist.

Angel2515 ,

Honest Book

This is a great read for Americans who wonder why so many nations around the globe hate the U.S.- only the receiving end (people/nation) know the true oppression.

geanhim ,

Thank You

Thanks for letting me know this was a liberal book! I will buy it immediately. Save me the trouble of being tricked into spending money that would go to a conservative.

More Books by Chalmers Johnson

Blowback, Second Edition Blowback, Second Edition
2007
The Sorrows of Empire The Sorrows of Empire
2007
Nemesis Nemesis
2007
Blowback Blowback
2001
MITI and the Japanese Miracle MITI and the Japanese Miracle
1982

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Washington Rules Washington Rules
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We Meant Well We Meant Well
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Breach of Trust Breach of Trust
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Hegemony or Survival Hegemony or Survival
2007
The Limits of Power The Limits of Power
2008