Chalmers Johnson Quotes

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• History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
• Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask…
• The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences…
• When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
• 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…
• 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…
• Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety…

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