Dec 20 2006
Republic or Empire?
The January 2007 issue of Harper’s (the cover art is a photograph of a rubber duckie) has an article by Chalmers Johnson entitled “Republic or Empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States.” It’s not online and won’t be for awhile, but Barbara O’Brien has a good analysis here. An excerpt:
In the article, Chalmers discusses “military Keynesianism,” in which “the flow of the nation’s wealth — from taxpayers and (increasingly) foreign lenders through the government to military contractors and (decreasingly) back to the taxpayers.” As a result, “the domestic economy requires sustained military ambition in order to avoid recession or collapse.”
(via The Mahablog)
