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Article: The Sorrows of Empire.(Book Review)
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- The Humanist
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- May 1, 2004
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004), 389 pp., $25.00 cloth.
Shortly after the, new millennium began, Chalmers Johnsons book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire hit the markets (see the review in the Humanist, May/June 2001). Six months later, terrorists flew commercial planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and blowback--a CIA term for the unintended consequences of U.S. policies kept secret from the country's people--became part of the language describing terrorist activities.
In his new book The Sorrows of Empire Johnson takes a ...