http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/3111/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-05-15T08:00:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090514_chalmers_johnson_on_the_cost_of_empire/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090514_chalmers_johnson_on_the_cost_of_empire/ book, catherine lutz, chalmers johnson, essays, imperialism, militarism, military, review, women, Book Review

Why does the U.S. government maintain over 190,000 troops and 115,000 civilian employees in 909 military facilities in 46 countries and territories? How long can the American taxpayer support this far-flung force given the severely weakened economy? And why has there been no public discussion by the Obama administration over scaling back our imperial presence abroad?

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]]> 2009-05-15T08:00:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080928_the_bailout_vs_the_defense_budget/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080928_the_bailout_vs_the_defense_budget/ bailout, chalmers johnson, congress, defense budget, engelhardt, iraq war, military-industrial complex, paulson, pentagon, treasury, veterans, wall street,

There has been much moaning, air-sucking and outrage about the U.S. government’s $700-billion bailout deal, but in fact we dole out similar amounts of money every year in the form of payoffs to the armed services, the military-industrial complex, and powerful senators and representatives allied with the Pentagon.

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]]> 2008-09-29T00:11:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080727_the_military_industrial_complex_its_much_later_than_you_think/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080727_the_military_industrial_complex_its_much_later_than_you_think/ chalmers johnson, cia, eisenhower, great depression, military-industrial complex, nsa, reagan, roosevelt, tomdispatch, world war ii,

Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our constitutional structure of checks and balances.

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]]> 2008-07-28T01:26:01+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080515_chalmers_johnson_on_our_managed_democracy/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080515_chalmers_johnson_on_our_managed_democracy/ america, book, bush, constitution, corruption, democracy, economy, empire, history, iraq, johnson, media, military, money, politics, review, terrorism, torture, war, wolin, Book Review

Sheldon Wolin’s new book offers a controversial but ultimately convincing diagnosis of how America’s democracy has succumbed to an unacknowledged totalitarian temptation.

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]]> 2008-05-16T06:27:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080124_chalmers_johnson_on_the_myth_of_free_trade/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080124_chalmers_johnson_on_the_myth_of_free_trade/ book, budget, conservatives, democracy, economy, free trade, friedman, government, johnson, money, poverty, review, taxes, war, Book Review

A powerful new book by a young South Korean-born economist at Cambridge University provides a compelling critique of the contradictions and hypocrisies of globalization and neoliberalism. The perfect antidote to the nostrums of Thomas Friedman.

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]]> 2008-01-25T06:48:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071025_chalmers_johnson_americas_forgotten_war/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20071025_chalmers_johnson_americas_forgotten_war/ army, book, china, halberstam, history, johnson, korea, military, quagmire, veterans, vietnam, war, Book Review

The best-selling author of “The Sorrows of Empire” takes a look at David Halberstam’s critical history of the Korean War.

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