More Weekend Watching: Meet Chalmers Johnson

Meet Chalmers Johnson, one of Dr. Paul's favorites on foreign policy. I just saw Speaking Freely, Vol. 4: Chalmers Johnson on American Hegemony, which I strongly urge everyone to see in its entirety (52 min). Here are parts of it from Youtube:

Speaking Freely 4:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Parts 1-2 below:

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Chalmers Johnson: Speaking Freely
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

From Wikipedia:
Chalmers Ashby Johnson 1931 (age 77–78) is an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967-1973. Johnson sees that the enforcement of American hegemony over the world constitutes a new form of global empire. Whereas traditional empires maintained control over subject peoples via colonies, since World War II the US has developed a vast system of hundreds of military bases around the world where it has strategic interests. A long-time Cold Warrior he applauded the collapse of the Soviet Union, I was a cold warrior. There's no doubt about that. I believed the Soviet Union was a genuine menace. I still think so.[1] But at the same time he experienced a political awakening after the USSR 1989 collapse, noting that instead of demobilizing its armed forces, the US accelerated its reliance on military solutions to problems both economic and political. The result of this militarism (as distinct from actual domestic defense) is more terrorism against the US and its allies, the loss of core democratic values at home, and an eventual disaster for the American economy. The books of the trilogy are:

The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)

Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (American Empire Project)

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)