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From the Vault: America's Empire is a Liability / Chalmers Johnson

Jul 5 2023
Episode 1614: From the Vault: America's Empire is a Liability / Chalmers Johnson
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They [the bases] affect almost all of the people on Earth today. They strongly leave the impression that the United States today prefers to solve its international relations problems through force. Moreover, just the physical presence of that many bases, over 800, is that the Americans that non-Americans encounter abroad turn out to be heavily armed young men who are often racially-biased, often hyped up by their training to believe that good and God are both on their side. It’s a public relations disaster. It gets worse all the time. We can’t afford it.

Today's dive into the archives features a July 4, 2009 interview with political scientist Chalmers Johnson about the state of American Empire. Sadly, not much has changed.

Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010 was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.

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Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010 was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.