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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Chalmers Johnson who wrote "Blowback" before 9-11,
and recently has written on the evil American Empire, died on 21 NOV
10.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There is an interesting article in Washington
notes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2010/11/the_impact_toda/">http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2010/11/the_impact_toda/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>An excerpt:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Chal railed against the journal, <EM><A
href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/">Foreign Affairs</A></EM>, which he saw
as a clap trap of statist conventionalism. He decided he had had enough of the
journal and of the organization that published it, the <A
href="http://www.cfr.org/">Council on Foreign Relations</A>. So, Chalmers
called the CFR and told the young lady on the phone to cancel his
membership.</DIV>
<P>The lady said, "Professor Johnson, I'm sorry sir. No one cancels their
membership in the Council in Foreign Relations. Membership is for life. People
are canceled when they die."</P>
<P>Chalmers Johnson, not missing a beat, said "Consider me dead."</P>
<P>I never will. He is and was the intellectual giant of our times. Chalmers
Johnson centuries from now will be seen, I think, as the intellectual titan of
this past era, surpassing Kissinger in the breadth of seminal works that
define what America was and could have been.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>