A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Repub…

- Chalmers Johnson

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

- Chalmers Johnson

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

- Chalmers Johnson

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men betwe…

- Chalmers Johnson

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the educat…

- Chalmers Johnson

Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua l…

- Chalmers Johnson

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

- Chalmers Johnson

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profita…

- Chalmers Johnson

Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It mak…

- Chalmers Johnson