In the wake of the … shootings, Afghan journalists were quickly on the scene

In the wake of the … shootings, Afghan journalists were quickly on the scene. Several were threatened

or had their film erased by American soldiers. One reporter was told: €œDelete the photos or I delete

you.€

Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic discusses America’s

descent down the path of militarism, secrecy, empire, authoritarianism and destruction, the role of the

military industrial complex and the mass media and hope for a mass movement to restore the

constitution.

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 first visited Japan in 1953 as a MBT shoes Navy officer and has

lived and worked there with his wife, the anthropologist Sheila K. Johnson, every year between 1961 and

1998.