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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who started this subject2/14/2003 8:30:05 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Chalmers Johnson has an absolutely fascinating review-commentary-personal journal article in the most recent issue of The London Review of Books. Ostensibly, Johnson writes to review Daniel Ellsberg's new book. But he rather takes the opportunity to walk himself and Ellsberg back thru there parallel careers in the military and the government in the 60s. It's the most interesting account of Ellsberg's work, his place in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, and the role the Pentagon Papers had in Watergate we are likely to read.

In addition, Johnson tries to summarize Ellsberg's conclusions about the structural sources of presidential lying to the American public, to the Congress, etc. on issues of great import; and on changes in government that make the likelihood of another Ellsberg kind of deed improbable at best.

Highly recommended.

Who's in charge?
Chalmers Johnson

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Johnson, in case you don't know is:

Chalmers Johnson is a retired professor of international relations at the University of California and author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. His new book, forthcoming in late 2003, is The Sorrows of Empire: How the Americans Lost Their Country.
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