| Evil Empire:A Talk by Chalmers Johnson | |
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| Directed by | Jon Monday |
| Produced by | Jon Monday |
| Starring | Chalmers Johnson |
| Distributed by | mondayMEDIA |
| Release date(s) | 2007 |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Language | English |
Evil Empire: A Talk by Chalmers Johnson[1] is a film of noted author and professor emeritus of University of California, San Diego, giving a talk to promote his book, Nemesis: he Last Days of the American Republic, the third book in his Blowback trilogy which includes Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. It is produced and directed by Jon Monday for mondayMEDIA.
Johnson traces the fall of the Roman Empire as a pattern he saw in American geopolitics. The term blowback is used by the CIA a the unintended consequences of American policies and actions in the world. His book Blowback, which was first published in January 2001, predicted the events of 9/11 as being the result of American policy and actions in the Middle East.
He cites the combination of militarism, far-flung military bases around the world, unsustainable economic domestic policy, and a complacent voting population as being toxic to American democracy. [2]