[Peace-discuss] Chalmers Johnson passes.

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Chalmers Johnson who wrote "Blowback" before 9-11, and recently has written on the evil American Empire, died on 21 NOV 10.

There is an interesting article in Washington notes.  
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2010/11/the_impact_toda/

An excerpt:
  Chal railed against the journal, Foreign Affairs, 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 Council on Foreign Relations. So, Chalmers called the CFR and told the young lady on the phone to cancel his membership.
  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."

  Chalmers Johnson, not missing a beat, said "Consider me dead."

  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.
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