The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the RepublicHenry Holt and Company, 1. apr. 2007 - 400 sider From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home |
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... Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Johnson , Chalmers A. The sorrows of empire : militarism , secrecy , and the end of the Republic / Chalmers Johnson - 1st ed . p . cm . Includes index . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-8050-7797-1 ISBN - 10 ...
... Congress for testifying that the agency had nothing to do with the overthrow of President Salvador Allende of Chile . Thus began my introduction to the secret world . In 1967 , I was best known as an academic specialist on China . The ...
... Congress and makes the United States a democracy . It guarantees that the people's representatives will know what the state apparatus is actually doing and it authorizes full dis- closure of these activities . It has not been applied to ...
... and his Senate rubber stamps and extorts the funding for his imperial adven- tures , just as the original came to do in the time of Caesar and Octavian . " 1 The Roman senate , much like Congress , worked well 15 Imperialisms, Old and New.
... Congress , worked well enough for two centuries . But by the first century BC , the size of the empire and the armies its maintenance required overwhelmed the capacities of the sen- ate and the consuls . In 49 BC , Julius Caesar ...
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