From: Adam Maas
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: "P. J. Alling"
>>>
>>> I hate it when people wave Charles Johnson around, I happen to have
>>> degrees in Economics and History, and I think he's full of crap. ?Then again
>>> I'm not an academic and I don't have to be nice to these people.
>>
>> Who is "Charles Johnson"?
>
> He's the proprietor of the Little Green Footballs blog and the person
> who proved that the 60 Minutes Bush ANG Memos were fakes. Something of
> a raging crank, but also something of an expert on font
> implementations in Word Processors (He wrote a fair bit of the font
> code for one of the more popular Amiga word processors). That made him
> somewhat famous, but he's also the classic example of a Liberal who's
> been mugged (Conservative only due to Sept 11, in reality rather much
> left wing aside from a severe dislike for Islamic terrorists)
>
>
As a note, I'm pretty sure PJ was referring to Chalmers Johnson, not
Charles. I'm not familiar with Chalmers.
Hard for me to understand how anyone would get the two confused then.
Chalmers Johnson is a former Naval Officer, CIA consultant and Professor
Emeritus of Political Science at UC San Diego. Founder of Japan Policy
Research Institute. Early critic of neo-liberal economic policies(aka
neo-conservatism)using Japanese economic stagnation in the 90s as his model.
Came to question the increase in U.S. post-Soviet militarism worldwide
and the over reliance on military "solutions" in the absence of any real
global competitor. Chalmers Johnson holds that America's hegemony is a
global empire based on overseas military bases and that increased U.S.
militarism abroad reduces U.S. domestic security by fostering ill
feeling and encourages terrorism.
Probably best known for his trilogy:
* Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
* The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
* Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
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