Podcasts about chalmers johnson

Today's dive into the archives features a July 4, 2009 interview with political scientist Chalmers Johnson about the state of American Empire. Sadly, not much has changed. Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010 was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute (now based at the University of San Francisco), an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.

Key Insights:Be pragmatic! Do what works! Reinforce success! Abandon failure!CHIPS & IRA are only, at most, 1/4 of what we should be doing.These are both very good things to do, as far as running a successful industrial policy is concerned.Maybe there was something to Biden’s claims that he could lead congress after all.Hexapodia!References:Matt Alt: Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong (2016): Concrete Economics: The Hamiltonian Approach to Economic Policy (Cambridge: HBS Press, 978-1422189818) J. Bradford DeLong (2022): Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century (New York: Basic Books, 978-0465019595) Chalmers Johnson (1982): MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 978-0804712064) W. David Marx (): Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style +, of course:Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep  Get full access to Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality at braddelong.substack.com/subscribe

The CIA coined the term “blowback” to describe the unintended results of U.S. covert operations abroad.  It was first used in connection with Operation Ajax, the Agency's 1953 coup in Iran overthrowing the democratic government of Mohammad Mossadegh. The United States today has hundreds of military bases around the world.  It's a form of domination that greatly expanded under the Bush Administration's post-9/11 so-called War on Terror.  Supporting a far-flung military empire generates large profits for many U.S. corporations.  It's terrific for weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and Northrop Grumman and for contractors like Halliburton, DynCorp and Fluor.  Not surprisingly, many people from Iraq to Japan are angry with having to live with Uncle Sam in uniform in their backyard.

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This episode covers a book titled Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson. A dope book that covers the American empire, the U.S. military, the CIA, our impact oversees, and our destructive and embarrassing activities and disregard for humanity. LINK FOR THE BOOK: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/dismantling-the-empire-americas-last-best-hope_chalmers-johnson/385394/#isbn=0805094237&idiq=7044645 PROTEST SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXW7NajVsQU

Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. This year, we will be saluting the winners virtually. The California Book Awards have often been on the vanguard, honoring previously unknown authors who go on to garner national acclaim. John Steinbeck received three gold medals—for Tortilla Flat in 1935, In Dubious Battle in 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Award winners in recent years include Adam Johnson, Jared Diamond, Karen Fowler, Kay Ryan, Bill Vollman, Joyce Maynard, Andrew Sean Greer, Yiyun Li, Adrienne Rich, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Chabon, Philip Levine, Rebecca Solnit, Galen Rowell, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Orner and Kevin Starr. Join us for this special celebratory event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hope you are enjoying the holidays! On today's "best of" Ring of Fire, we'll be revisiting some of the very best interviews from the days of Mike Papantonio, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sam Seder. We'll hear from Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg, and several other newsmakers and brilliant progressive minds. Let's get things started with a conversation we had with Thom Hartmann on his film The Last Hours of Humanity, where he warned us about the looming dangers of global climate change.

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Tribute Program for France Senecal Kassing; France interviews Chalmers Johnson for KDVS

Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. The California Book Awards have often been on the vanguard, honoring previously unknown authors who go on to garner national acclaim. John Steinbeck received three gold medals—for Tortilla Flat in 1935, In Dubious Battle in 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Recent award winners include Adam Johnson, Jared Diamond, Karen Fowler, Kay Ryan, Bill Vollman, Joyce Maynard, Andrew Sean Greer, Yiyun Li, Adrienne Rich, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Chabon, Philip Levine, Rebecca Solnit, Galen Rowell, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Orner and Kevin Starr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on Ring of Fire, we'll be revisiting some of the very best interviews from more than a decade of being on the air. We'll hear from Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg, and several other newsmakers and brilliant progressive minds.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! LA BIBLIOTECA DE LA HISTORIA nos abre uno de sus archivos, que contiene la verdadera historia de: El Holocausto cometido por Japón. Una serie de crímenes de guerra que tuvieron lugar durante la Segunda Guerra Sino-Japonesa y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el que se cometieron todo tipo de torturas, experimentos biológicos y asesinatos por parte del Ejército Imperial Japonés y sus colaboracionistas. Algunos autores llegan a la conclusión de que a causa de estos crímenes murieron aproximadamente unos 24 millones de personas. Por ejemplo el historiador estadounidense Chalmers Johnson ha escrito que: "los japoneses masacraron a 30 millones de filipinos, malayos, vietnamitas, camboyanos, indonesios y birmanos y, al menos, a 23 millones de etnia china". Música bajo licencia Creative Commons License 3.0. Entrada: Epic Tv Theme by audionautix.com by Jason Shaw. Relato: High Tension by audionautix.com by Jason Shaw. Imagen del audio: Soldado australiano que va a ser decapitado con una katana por un soldado imperial japonés. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

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This episode of Sinica is a wide-ranging conversation with Cheng Li (李成), one of the most prominent international scholars of elite Chinese politics and its relation to grassroots changes and generational shifts. He discusses the historical rise and fall of technocracy, corruption and the campaigns against it, power factions within the Communist Party and the new dynamics of the Xi Jinping era. Cheng Li has authored and edited numerous books and articles on subjects ranging from the politics behind China’s tobacco industry to the nature of collective leadership under Xi. He began his career as a doctor after three years of medical training in the waning years of the Cultural Revolution, then changed course in 1985 to study under scholars such as Robert Scalapino and Chalmers Johnson at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lynn White at Princeton University. He is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, as well as a director of the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations. Recommendations: Jeremy: Hugh White’s review of The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia by Kurt Campbell and Kurt Campbell’s reply Cheng: The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo Kaiser: Scientism in Chinese Thought: 1900-1950 by D. W. Y. Kwok and Xi Jinping is No Mao Zedong by Keyu Jin  

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Is the Stage Too Big for the Actors? "When Time Will Have Reached Its Fulfillment"* for Sunday, 2 January 2010; book review: *Dismantling the Empire; America's Last Best Hope* by Chalmers Johnson (2010); film review: *A History of Christianity; The First Three Thousand Years* (2010); poem review: *The Peace of Wild Things* by Wendell Berry.

30-minute weekly radio program for December 14, 2010. Sundance-winning documentary (2005) on the U.S. war machine and imperialism since World War Two. This condensed version includes commentary by GORE VIDAL, JOHN S.D. EISENHOWER, and the late CHALMERS JOHNSON.Interwoven is the story of Wilton Sekzer, a retired NYC cop, grief-stricken at the death of his son in the Twin Towers, yearning for revenge against the perpetrators, who he had been led to believe were the Iraqis. He sought a memorial to his son, and eventually a giant "bunker buster" bomb was dropped on Baghdad bearing the inscription, "In loving memory of Jason Sekzer."He now struggles with the knowledge that the Iraqis were innocent of 9/11 and that he had been deceived by his President.http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/More details, photos, links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com. Permanent link to the entry for this week's program: (to follow).http://www.archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes145-WhyWeFightWall Street's first attempt at a takeover of the White House. in 1933-1934http://www.archive.org/details/BeforeBarackObama-WallStreetsFirstAttempAtAWhiteHouseCoup

Interview with the American author Chalmers Johnson about the American Empire. Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization devoted to public education concerning Japan and international relations in the Pacific. He taught for thirty years, 1962-1992, at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California and held endowed chairs in Asian politics at both of them. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and as chairman of the Department of Political Science. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics and political science are all from the University of California, Berkeley... He was chairman of the academic advisory committee for the PBS television series "The Pacific Century," and he played a prominent role in the PBS "Frontline" documentary "Losing the War with Japan." Both won Emmy awards. His most recent books are, as editor and contributor, Okinawa: Cold War Island (Cardiff, Calif.: Japan Policy Research Institute, 1999); and Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New York: Holt Metropolitan Books, 2000). The latter won the 2001 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. His new book, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic was published by Metropolitan in January 2004. Professor Johnson has just finished writing his new book in this trilogy about the American Empire and will be published at the end of 2006 under the title: Nemesis. The Last Days of the American Republic.

As the national political conventions fade into the fog of our short-term memory, few items seem to have penetrated the made-for-TV presentations. We remember a few snippets (if we're lucky), a few disparate images, an emotional impression, perhaps. I'm willing to bet that few of us remember any meaningful discussion of the real economic problems faced by the U.S. That's because none of the major presidential candidates have even the remotest solutions to the economic problems plaguing the country, for both are ardent advocates of globalization -- and globalization ain't the solution -- it's the problem. For globalization emerged as a tool of U.S. economic power to dominate the world in the post-Cold War era. It was designed to open up foreign markets to U.S. and Western businesses, using the illusion of "free trade" to crowbar into local and national economies. Chalmers Johnson, in his 2000 book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of Empire (N.Y.: Owl Books) puts forth precisely this thesis with clarity and conviction. He illustrates how much of this could be traced to former president Richard Nixon's abolition of the post-World War Bretton Woods agreements, which pegged world currencies to the dollar, and the dollar to U.S. gold reserves. From that day on, economies became free floating, and whole new industry was born -- finance capital, or the business of speculating in, and profiting from, the moneys of others. Such a system, especially when wedded with the protectionism that prevailed in East Asia for some 50 years, created havoc around the world, where foreign wealth destabilizes local markets, for the quick buck. A byproduct of this new globalized economy was the hollowing out of American industries, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the failure of America's domestic economy. Johnson cites the work of City College of New York historian, Judith Stein, for examples of how U.S. industrial policy became a wrecking ball to Black communities both in the South and North, industries abroad was a keystone of U.S. strategic policy, and encouraging steel imports became a tool for maintaining vital alliances. The nation's leaders by and large ignored the resulting conflict between Cold War and domestic goals" { p.195}. While presidential candidates argue over taxes on capital gains, millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet. Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, due to lost jobs or foreclosures. It is a globalized economy for capital, high finance, and speculation, but it can hardly be considered one for working people. For them, a hundred barriers bloom, making it harder than ever to chase jobs. Both major candidates are deaf to their plight, and thus are ill-disposed to address it, much less solve it. --(c) '08 maj [Source: Johnson's Blowback.; Goodman, Peter S., "U.S. and Global Economies Slipping in Unison," New York Times (Sunday), 8/24/08, pp.1, 12.]

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *God Bless You, Tammy Faye (1942–1997)! "She Was Living By Faith When She Died"* for Sunday, 12 August 2007; book review: *Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic* by Chalmers Johnson (2006); film review: *Why We Fight* (2005); poem review: *The Convert* by G.K. Chesterton; music review: *Theology* by Sinead O'Connor.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"Christ is All and is In All": Beyond Identity Violence and Social Hierarchies* for Sunday, 5 August 2007; book review: *The Sorrows of Empire; Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic* by Chalmers Johnson (2004); film review: *Let the Church Say Amen* (2004); poem review: *The Beatific Vision* by GK Chesterton.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *The Scandal of the Particular: Preached at Trinity Church* guest essay by Nora Gallagher for Sunday, 29 July 2007; book review: *Blowback; The Costs and Consequences of American Empire* by Chalmers Johnson (2000, 2004); film review: *Idiocracy* (2006); poem review: *For Whom the Bell Tolls* by John Donne.