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CHALMERS JOHNSON on THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE: Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, Chalmers Johnson maps America’s vast empire of military bases and the world that supports them. American militarism, he shows, is bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback. Chalmers Johnson’s bestselling book The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic is out now in paperback.
READ Chalmers Johnsons new interview at TomDispatch.com.
ALSO: TOM DeLAY is finished. Well have analysis from JOHN NICHOLS hes The Nation‘s Washington correspondent, and writes The Online Beat blog at TheNation.com.
PLUS: Global Warming: The Tipping Point. We are approaching the point when one out of every five living things on the planet will face extinction as a result of greenhouse gases. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most power El Nino ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, and the hottest European summer on record, which killed 26,000 people in two months. TIM FLANNERY will explain: his new book is The Weather Makers.
Take a look at Tim Flannerys terrific web site: www.tim-flannery.com
More stuff to read: Jon Wiener, Imposing our will is simply our way, L.A. Times, Mon 4/3.
