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A Cold warrior turns his coat,
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This review is from: Blowback (Paperback)
This book is famous for prophesying 9/11 within the first few pages. It is difficult to ignore how accurate his predictions have been over the last 4 years.Johnson is most interesting because of his background. As he recounts in the beginning of this book, he was originally an academic Cold warrior who felt that his work could contribute to the fight against Communism. Now he feels that those early sentiments were incorrect, he believes US "imperial" impulses were (and are) far more destructive in the long term. If you read this book with an already sceptical view of American foreign policy you will find it far more informative than knee-jerk leftist polemics. Even those who firmly support US aims and ambitions may find these arguments compelling.
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Stealth imperialism,
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In this hard-hitting analysis, Chalmers Johnson explains the goals and the hidden (from its inhabitants) functioning of the US hegemon: an empire based on military power and the use of US capital and markets to force global economic integration on US terms at whatever costs to others.On the military front, the US population forgot G. Washington’s warning: ‘avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.’ On the economic front, globalization US style provoked economic disasters in South-Asia and South-America, throwing millions of people into poverty. However the US still urged its ‘allies’ to buy weapons! This kind of globalization, which provoked still more economic inequality, will not be forgotten for a long time (see W. Bello: Dilemmas of Domination.). In a world of hypocritical and gagged media, Chalmers Johnson’s much needed voice proposes human solutions for the world’s problems: ‘bring most overseas land-based forces home and reorient foreign policy to stress leadership through example, economic aid, international law, multilateral institutions and diplomacy, instead of military intervention, economic bullying or financial manipulation.’ With its surprising comparisons, Chalmers Johnson sent a solid warning to the actual US establishment. A nation reaps what its sows. The blowback could be horrendous. This book is a must read.
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provocative& informative,
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In summary, this book comprised a good insight of US military colonization especially in east Asia such as Okinawa inland in Japan where sexual abuses were conduct by American soldiers . Also, it tends to examine in details the history of American military interventions such as in the Korean war in the 50s and it's parallel comparison with the soviet union's crushing of the revolt in Hungary and it's would- be repercussions to the American public .
Thereafter, there is an economic analysis of both china and Japan and how Japan the second strongest economic country in the world has taken advantage of entering the American market and selling its products competitively inside us and at the same time making roadblocks for America entering the Japanese market as a financial blowback to us by exporting from Japan and downsizing employees inside by moving large associations to a cheaper labor market. Hence, this book as the first part of the trilogy of costs and consequences of American empire , shed some lights on rather economic as well as political analysis background of the present and future main Asian adversaries to Us especially the largest growing economy of China. Needless to say,economically speaking, of course the authur didn't forget to mention the role of IMF( international monetary fund) as an empire asset to us government espiacially in page 219 :"the IMF is essentialy a covert arm of the us treasury yet beyond congressional oversight becaus t is formally an international organisation.its voting rules ensure that it is dominated by us and its allies" or that "IMF is insinuated ino inner sanctms on nearly 75 developing country governments around the world with a comined popultion of 1.4 billion"
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