Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.
Book information: The American Empire Project, Google Books, Amazon.com.
I recommend viewing the Conversations with History episodes in which Johnson discusses his books. See the links in the Online Video section below.
Chalmers Johnson:
- Chalmers Johnson, Wikipedia.
- Japan Policy Research Institute, Chalmers Johnson, President.
- TomDispatch.com Interview with Chalmers Johnson, March 2006:
Part 1, Our Military Empire,
Part 2, Our Fading Republic. - Chalmers Johnson, Republic or Empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States, Harper's Magazine, January 2007.
- Chalmers Johnson, Empire v. Democracy: Why Nemesis Is at Our Door, TomDispatch.com, 30 January 2007.
(An excerpt from the book Nemesis.) - Interview, AlterNet.org, March 2007.
- Chalmers Johnson, America's Empire of Bases, TomDispatch.com, 15 January 2004.
- Chalmers Johnson essays at TomDispatch.com
- Chalmers Johnson, The Continuation of the Cold War and the Advent of American Militarism, Japan Policy Research Institute, Occasional Paper, No. 25 (April 2002).
- Chalmers Johnson, No Longer the "Lone" Superpower: Coming to Terms with China, Japan Policy Research Institute, JPRI Working Paper No. 105 (March 2005).
- Chalmers Johnson, The Life and Times of the CIA, The American Empire Project, 25 July 2007.
A review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. - Articles by Chalmers Johnson.
A collection of links.
Online Video:
- The Last Days of the American Republic: A Conversation with Chalmers Johnson, Conversations with History, 07 March 2007.
Interview related to the publication of Nemesis. A very good introduction to the book. - Militarism and the American Empire: A Conversation with Chalmers Johnson, Conversations with History, 10 May 2004.
Interview related to the publication of The Sorrows of Empire. - Chalmers Johnson interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, 27 February 2007, transcript, MP3 link.
Miscellaneous Reviews, Essays, etc:
- Jonathan Freedland, Bush's Amazing Achievement, The New York Review of Books, Volume 54, Number 10, 15 June 2007.
"One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush administration has been the creation of a near consensus among those who study international affairs, a shared view that stretches, however improbably, from Noam Chomsky to Brent Scowcroft, from the antiwar protesters on the streets of San Francisco to the well-upholstered office of former secretary of state James Baker. This new consensus holds that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a calamity, that the presidency of George W. Bush has reduced America's standing in the world and made the United States less, not more, secure, leaving its enemies emboldened and its friends alienated. Paid-up members of the nation's foreign policy establishment, those who have held some of the most senior offices in the land, speak in a language once confined to the T-shirts of placard-wielding demonstrators. They rail against deception and dishonesty, imperialism and corruption. The only dispute between them is over the size and depth of the hole into which Bush has led the country he pledged to serve." - Michael Ignatieff, The Burden, The New York Times Magazine, 05 January 2003.
A copy of the essay is also available at http://empirelite.ca/ as "Empire Lite."
A comment on Ignatieff's essay which elegantly reveals Ignatieff's blindness.
In this essay Ignatieff writes as an explicit advocate of American imperialism, a position he has since renounced. Useful in attempting to understand how and why the U.S. establishment (beyond the Neoconservatives) supported the conquest and occupation of Iraq. - Howard Zinn, Empire or Humanity?: What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire, TomDispatch.com, 01 April 2008.