For anyone who isn't familiar with Chalmers Johnson, he wrote "Sorrows of Empire", "Blowback" and "Nemesis" (among others over his long career).
One of the themes in his work is the way in which the U.S. seems to spit out military bases around the world the way a rabbit spits out pellets of fecal matter from its bottom.
He also has many long interviews on the internet that are quite interesting and relevant to a lot of the topics we discuss here.
Here is one to get you started discussing his book "Nemesis": Link
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Chalmers Johnson - DOOMERLICIOUS!
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Re: Chalmers Johnson - DOOMERLICIOUS!
by mcgowanjm » Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:08:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')oday, the world awaits what is almost certain to happen soon at some airport -- a terrorist firing a U.S. Stinger low-level surface-to-air missile (manufactured at one time by General Dynamics in Rancho Cucamonga) into an American jumbo jet. The CIA supplied thousands of them to the moujahedeen and trained them to be experts in their use. If the CIA's activities in Afghanistan are a "success story," then Enron should be considered a model of corporate behavior.
From:
6-09-03
The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History
By Chalmers Johnson
Today:
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')For such a high-value asset, the possibility of recovery would have been strongly considered – unless of course the aircraft was much more badly damaged than has been indicated, and was already deemed to be beyond economic repair.
In fact, that seems to have been the case. According to The Times, a Special Forces unit had disembarked with their kit only minutes earlier, but when the helicopter lifted off with just the four-man crew on board, it came under attack. The engine burst into flames and the crew had to fight the controls to make an emergency landing. "They managed to fly the Chinook forward 500 metres to reach a safe area before landing it," one MoD official says.
The "unrecoverable" helicopter was still on fire and a decision was taken to destroy it to prevent Taleban insurgents from seizing any of the equipment on board. A Nato bomber was called in and dropped a 500lb bomb on the wreckage.
The fact that it was destroyed says a great deal about the strength of the coalition grip in the area, where a considerable number of operations have been mounted to "chase out" the Taleban. Normally, the preference would be to secure the site, even if the aircraft was destroyed, in order to carry out a crash investigation.
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http://defenceoftherealm.blogspot.com/2 ... -down.html
I think the Brits have 9 chinooks left in afghanistan?
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Re: Chalmers Johnson - DOOMERLICIOUS!
by aldente » Sat 22 Aug 2009, 02:24:58
Excellent indeed, thanks for the link- a delicacy.
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Re: Chalmers Johnson - DOOMERLICIOUS!
by hardtootell-2 » Sat 22 Aug 2009, 10:24:11
"They hate us for our freedoms"
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