Conversations with History: Chalmers Johnson
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- Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Chalmers Johnson for a discussion of his new book, Nemesis. In the interview, Johnson, an Emeritus Professor of the University of California, analyzes the impact of the American empire on democracy at home. Comparing the United States to Rome and Great Britain, he argues that a combination of military Keynesianism, the Bush administration's attempt to implement a unitary presidency, and the failed checks on executive ambition point to political and economic bankruptcy. [5/2007] [Show ID: 12489]
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It is sad that so few are listening to this good man.
I feel smarter just listening to this man.
Chalmers what a Blessed and honest man. May God rest his soul.
A cold warrior and worked for the CIA... But he turned things around at the end of his life.
From his first book..to the last, he was an outstanding scholar.
Intelligent discussion which you will never see on mainstream tv.
Sorrows of Empire..I read it and it's astonishing and mind blow...thanks to this great Man who I believe know is for sure in Heaven and who gave a huge contribute to all of us with his masterpieces
My most sincere admiration and congratulation to Prof. Harry Kreisler and Prof. Chalmers Johnson. I enormously appreciate the intellectual level and knowledge of Mr. Johnson, but above all I love his sincerity and honesty. The world is in urgent need of people like you.
Kindest regards from Amersfoort, in the heart of Netherland. Michael
A splendid, brilliant man. I pray he is resting in peace. 🙏❤️☮️
Man, this guy was incredibly prescient
This man shines like a sun. No matter what they say about US, we have men like him, found nowhere else.
Another diamond of wisdom.
Why is this man not known by every member of the general public?
Smart man. Nice to get his wide view.
Chalmers for President. Read his books, and was lucky to have found them.
he died 4 years ago
this is good stuff.. i always recommend chalmers johnsons books to people who are intrested in politics. please do that too
3 people dislike this: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld
More like every single president since jackson
😂😜
And those three scoundrels are like the Three Wise Men compared to that shameless buffoon Trump.
@@tntramzy12 Since Washington!
@@slemire58 true
Great interview. I speak to people about many of the subjects he brings up and get looked at like I have three heads! A few people believe I'm nuts to even care as much as I do. I think the end of the republic is upon us, unless Americans somehow understand history very soon. Most need to lose the primitive patriotism which allows them to believe their government can do no wrong.
You were ahead of your time sir. I think alot of people see it now
Yes. America has not matured, and regressed in many ways
The ending is a process. It has happened
@@tntramzy12 Not to say that there aren't still millions of sheep roaming the world, the events of the past two years have redpileld enormous numbers of people.
Rich comfortable suburban Americans ignore this truth of impending doom and hope it fades away.
Sad that this gem of humanity died a decade ago in 2010. He at least does not witness the death of his republic.
R.I.P. Chalmers Johnson
I used to study psychology hoping to change my own behavior. I've since determined that psychology is the appreciation of the human experience. I now feel the same way about studying the history of democracies. We can study them hoping to change but this might be futile; that democracies have phases just as us humans do.
Old comment - but well said.
there have been no democracies. You are citing republics, which are designed to fail and turn into plutocracies. The US is no difference.
Chalmers Johnson could have ripped warmongers like Bill O'Reilly, and others, to shreds. RIP...
Excellent video. Johnson speaks so much sense.
A great man. He spoke the truth and his words live on.
His speech disturbs me...
Professor Chalmers Johnson's voice is reminiscent
of talk show host Dick Cavett.
I'm hungry for truth. Thank you Mr. Chalmers. I think we the people deserve the truth now more than ever. I think we've become an evil empire. I say bring the troops home...all of them. Our economy......it sucks. Our direction is unsustainable yet we have Obama spending more money instead of facing the need to cut spending and bring our troops home.
@Hallibutbouy
Because he's an intellectual. In our country the majority of our voting population is not very educated, and is not interested in understanding the history & the consequences of our imperialist policies. So people like Chalmers Johnson get brushed off to the side as ivory tower theorists.
truth to power. the book is fascinating and a little scary. I admire his work greatly.
“Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of Government are inauspicious to Liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty: In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON; Farewell Address; 1796
There's an interview with Chalmers in the series "Speaking freely" for Cinema Libre, also worht listening to.
Given a choice 99.9% accept the program
There's no choice since the US economy was built around the Cold War, opening the US market for German and Japanese products with which the US can't compete any longer (e.g. IBM, General Motors ect.).
Yep: go along to get along, Company Men. Drones. NPCs. Brainwashed, traumatized, controlled, pacified, propagandized, radicalized, kept in a perpetual state of fear & anxiety, misinformed, disinformed, psychologically compromised, addicted, physically, mentally, and spiritually weakened by toxic chemicals, waste pollution, noise pollution, EMF pollution, alienating artificial environments, information overload, boogie men & other manufactured threats (terrorists, serial killers, drug-crazed satanic cults e.g. the Manson family, satanic ritual abuse/child abuse/child sacrifice, viral/bacteriological & other biological pathogens, plagues, & pandemics, noxious / dangerous pest species (killer bees, mutant spiders, wolf superpacks, jellyfish swarms)...
...environmental catastrophe (climate change, mass global extinction, acid rain, coral reef dieoff, felling & perm. destructoin of rainforests, native fauna, & the biomass/bioshpere they support), religious & political extremists, racist / eugenicist / pro-ethnic cleansing orgs e.g. white supremacists, environmental terrorists, UFOs / alien abduction & experimentation / crop circles / cattle mutilation, Bigfoot, ghosts, poltergeists, evil spirits, demons, devils, Satan/Lucifer, self-aware, super-intelligent AI / artilects, technological singularity, and on and on. Oh I forgot nuclear war (and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bob Geldof, and last but certainly not least, fake Catholic, fake rocker, fake Catholic Rocker, fake personality, lifelong LARPer, _"Bono"_ of U2...and his demonic alter-egos e.g. 'The Fly' who loves singing Sympathy for the Devil...a perpetual public nuisance, and all for want of two .22 bullets to the back of the head)
I marched against that war in London/UK. But the US is just so-so powerful and was so raging at that time it'd been hard for any UK Government to not go with the US. Try to understand that. Not that I ever forgive Blair.
UCTV has 842K subscribers. This was posted on 1/16/2008. As of 7/28/2021, it only has 64,679 views. Every educated adult should know the stuff Chalmers Johnson shared here and yet YT algorithm would not recommend it to the 842K subscribers or the billions of YT viewers. Why is that?
So it should! It is very matter of fact and mostly quite accurate. There are areas that one could grumble about from an historical point of view, but he is very good!
Much love 4 my boi Chalmy J!
Too bad he’s no longer with us. I admire Mr Johnson and have his books.
Rest in peace.
why am i meeting this man for the first time? it sad. but I'm lucky though because someone will never meet him
Chris Hedges, Glenn Loury, Brett Weinstein, Jon McWhorter are a few more that I listen to, almost with relief. They are all outside of the mainstream speaking truthfully about the US, our gov't, the culture, the decline of a general population unable to think critically and rationally.
@@julieb7785
The interesting point about Chalmers Johnson was that he was a 'hawk' during the Cold War - and yet he came to similar observations as a 'communist' like Hedges - although more from an angle of national security and constitutionalism.
@@christophmahler It's good to be willing and able to change your mind....
@@julieb7785
"It's good to be willing and able to change your mind."
Well, not for 'CHANGE' sake - but according to a realistic assessment of changing circumstances.
To innovate 'progress' where it is necessary and to 'conserve' solid foundations or making hard choices at other times.
Bcoz we under the constant lies of empire’s shadow....
A deceitful web of lies.... that truth seems strange.... u invoked the right though.....
Now we have to believe that we have to destroy a country n a nation bcoz of a one bad man...
well America he could have been, ..
In in LA vs Kabul or in London.... what then
Sorry it’s Kabul what was destroyed, after all...
Now. that makes sense, why didn't I think of that? Thanks.
enlightening...
"The chickens have come home to roost"!
Isn't that what Rev. Wright said? Oooh! He's so divisive and bombastic!
"Is Ares right? Will Warriors forever define the future" Gabrielle
“One of the expedients of Party is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON; Farewell Address; 1796
"There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. --But those of popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is spirit not to be encouraged.”
President George Washington; Farewell Address; 1796
1 Saint John 4:20
If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?
A great man who was still closely connected to the establishment. His criticism is highly valuable. His views on 9/11 expressed in this interview are ill informed or perhaps a what he considers a necessary lie. If you doubt and dismiss what I say please challenge yourself to watch zeitgeist or loose change. Please explain to me the insider trading.
please read his book i just read The Sorrows of Empire it great just read
@goodflo911 Thank you, all the best and eyes open :-)))
yeh spread the word
Does any one know the news website he mentioned @ 57:05? I couldn't hear him well
can't find a citation for his claim that at the time of the invasion, there were only 4 arabic speakers in the US army. Has anyone heard this anywhere else?
I agree with pretty much everything this guy represents. Founding people in America wrote a tremendous amount of material about government by consent only, and they were fearful of having a standing military. Unfortunately, some of them perceived a need for a small standing military and that was later seen to justify blowing it all out of proportion. Now we have a military organized society, demanding the taxation levels we have while people complain about taking care of our own-welfare.
@WorldPeace4All6 well said, this is a great man, cant see much in common with paul.
RIP. :(
I am not American (born and raised in Canada). One thing that bothers me is that when there is a disaster in the world, America often offers help. But when something happens to the US, the world gloats.
"One thing that bothers me (...)"
Old comment - but after Johnson explained the origin of anti-American resentment, You know where it comes from.
Although, I remember quiet distinctly the wave of solidarity with the US at 9/11 even across antagonistic nation states like Iran - while the incident was easily avoidable by simply arresting the respective individuals, already under observation by the FBI since the 1990s.
The attack on the WTC was instrumentalized in order to deploy the military and destabilize the entire Middle East - on a scale, unimaginable if 9/11 had been prevented.
Now, the world clearly moves into two blocs: NATO and it's hollowed allies, lead by unpopular liberal elites and a rising *Eurasia* that modernized it's military and opposed the US in Syria, the Ukraine, Georgia and possibly even Latin America, challenging the 'Monroe Doctrine'.
None of that would have happened if the Cold War wouldn't have been mistaken as signal towards *liberal hegemony* by the West.
ummm I think George Washington argued IN FAVOR of a "standing army", in order to "awe the Indians." Please correct me if I am wrong.
No.
The founding fathers opposed the standing militaries of continental Europe.
The 'Manifest Destiny' to claim most of North America towards the Pacific was propagated only in the 1840s - two generations after Washington.
The argument that Chalmers makes on one level is that the military complex can be good for the American economy, the rise of Germany out of depression being a good example and the fact that America has led the World economically for decades. With America outsourcing these jobs, the American economy has been hollowed out, yet still has this massive military complex to maintain. The jobs are off shored and the Americans suffer.
Bring the jobs home and scale back, problem solved..... Partially.
On paper this is about correct - but it would take sincere career politicians to communicate and execute such grand restructuring meassures - as likely to succed as the popular land reforms by the Gracchus brothers, despised by the landed Senate...
A truly intelligent person has a sense of humor...for example you admitting in your response that you are not smart, wealthy, or intelligent = humor
When a security surveillance apparatus falls under the control of one branch of the government such as the executive, it completely destroys the separation of powers provided for within the constitution.
No liberal constitution counts for the constitutional impact of armed men in uniform - that's the issue about 'standing armies.'
If a civil war would break out today within the US, all eyes will be on the National Guard and other branches, regarding their support for a faction.
Truly: Lincoln controlled the military and the press. Under his version of the mercantile system Dixie would've been kept poor and agrarian. During his undeclared {& "undeclarable"} war the transcontinental railroad's construction continued unabated & on-schedule. Lincoln's regime ended federalism.
...and feudalism
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Administrative massacres. Goddamn that’s powerful
The big danger is "Simple Data Mining"
The focusing on individuals isn't the real power of a massive, population wide, data bases. Assuming you are the dictator or a just a president gone bad. On a gross scale, the NSA's data base can sift and sort the population so that all people of any specific group, can be identified and located.
This guy rocks...minus the sandals and socks :)
Chalmers Johnson passed away just this year..
2014 ?!
2010
Adam West & William Shatner sound alike as well.
Except when they're singing?
@ForwarDotSlash I don't think they are knowingly complicit, the indoctrination and PR industry in the U.S. is very powerful. Most of these soldiers are propagandized to believe they are helping people.
...was true 14 years ago, even more so today ... death throes in progress right now ...
Well, dotardness of recent presidents has been progressively gotten worse since Reagan. I could just imagine what CJ would have said about America under Trump and now Biden. Yikes. America is over.
Does rack havoc really cause people to hate you till the end of time? go look pew reach people opinion about USA, check region like central America, most of people from that region have the most favorite view on USA in the entire world. 31:53
Really different from Justin Bieber.........!
See terrorism in my own home. Help!
lol
i cant not stand Harry Kreiler.... there were several times in Christopher Hitchen's episode that i wanted to throw something...
Doctor Johnson, Please reach out and slap that guy.... ill got 5$ bucks if you do
titcr
Capitalism is the crisis!!!!
25:22 I admire Mr. Johnson for his insights and great capacity to anticipate the consequences of U.S. foreign policy. But here he has a blind spot. Of course I understand the gist of the argument: a lot of countries would be angry for the U.S. foreign policy. But here he falls into the trap created by communist propaganda: to think the Greek Colonels or even Pinochet were the "more odious" dictators of their time is simply absurd. They truly had a bad press, but in the case of Pinochet at least, he became a scapegoat of the consequences of Chile going on the path to ta totalitarian marxist state as Salvador Allende and his government intended. This ended in confiscation of private property, collapse in production and hyperinflation that by September of 1973 becae untenable. The Chilean COngress then voted 3 weeks before the coup to declare Allende and his government outside of the constitution and the laws. Pinochet and the military JUnta just stepped in to save Chile from a ruinous civil war that was expected to take the lives of thousands of chileans.
Just realize that at the same time there was Idi Amin in Uganda, Pol POt in Cambodia or Megisthu in Ethipia, all darlings of the left. All abominable figures that wreck havoc and destruction on a monumental scale. Pinochet ruled for 17 years, designed a constitutional transition that was peaceful and left Chile a more prosperous and secure country than when he left it. But now chileans are on a path to try to destroy it.
This is not tod deny that the CIA intervened on the affairs of Chile. They idiotically and clumsily helped a far right terorrist group to hijack and in the process, murder the chief of the Army to prevent Allende from taking office. The plot apart form failing, moved COngress, who really elected Allende (he only won a plurality of the popular vote) to confirm him as president. Not before making him sign and agreement onf Constitutional GUarantees that fro the rest oh his period in office he broke in every way.
The coup of September 1973 was planned by the armed forces without intervention of the CIA. Why do I know this? Becasue it was successful.
The CIA participated in successful coups (Arbenz, Mossadegh, etc.) so your reasoning is faulty I'm afraid. Evidently you don't know one way or the other whether the CIA was involved or not in the Chilean coup. I'll take the professor and former CIA analyst's opinion on the matter over yours.
Sad this man was so ill-informed about Pinochet