![]() ![]() 'Blowback' is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently. O nce upon a time, long, long agoactually, it was early in the year 2000I was involved in publishing Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever. Blowback by Chalmers Johnson The Nation magazine, OctoFor Americans who can bear to think about it, those tragic pictures from New York of women holding up photos of their husbands, sons and daughters and asking if anyone knows anything about them look familiar. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. 'An Owl Book. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. ![]() The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. Johnson predicts that blowback will ultimately produce a crisis that suddenly, wrenchingly impairs or ends Americans hegemonic influence. Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times) ![]()
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