“Since the mainstream media have abdicated their responsibility to be watchdogs of government and to serve the public, books like The Sorrows of Empire are essential if we are to defend ourselves against the military-industrial-Congressional complex. Andrew Bacevich, The Washington Post Book World In Chalmers Johnson, the American empire has found its Jeremiah. ![]() “When a nation falls into sinful ways, angry words and dire prognostications may be necessary to reawaken people to the truth. The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy His analysis is powerful and dreadfully persuasive. In this cri de coeur, he asks us to grasp, before it is too late, that America’s modern militarist empire threatens to destroy the democratic republic. “Chalmers Johnson is a legendary scholar.
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