Conversations with History: Chalmers Johnson

[neolamanite]

3 people dislike this: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld

[paulo2008dias]

Sorrows of Empire..I read it and it's astonishing and mind blow...thanks to this great Man who I believe know is for sure in Heaven and who gave a huge contribute to all of us with his masterpieces

[TheHobbgobblin]

All nice and well and respectful but the fact that intelligent scholars are not on main stream media in usa should tell us all we need to know.........corporations control media and its not so censorship but the sin of Omission that leads most americans....think about the number of book stores closing and the rise of internet books (not readily available to all).....writing is on the wall......

[marinecorps29]

Chalmers Johnson could have ripped warmongers like Bill O'Reilly, and others, to shreds. RIP...

[Ah4b]

"It would not have been difficult to go after the whole El-Qaida bunch, arrest them, bring them back to the US, trial them in front of American courts, find them guilty and execute them."

Thats remarkable from a left winger. These actions would almost certainly violate international law but be proportionate to the crime El-Qaida commited which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq werent.

Great pragmatism from someone you'd expect to be an ideologist. He should run for the presidential office.

[partwheel]

I had him as a teacher at Berkeley in 1986. He read his entire book as a lecture. It was hysterical watching people take notes while I mouthed the words before he even said them.

[ivoplsek]

From his first book..to the last, he was an outstanding scholar.



[wabri20]

i think we should move all the outdated technologies and jobs overseas and start the new green revolution( legalization and renewable energies) here in the states and reap the profits of it....

[RockofEngland]

The argument that Chalmers makes on one level is that the military complex can be good for the American economy, the rise of Germany out of depression being a good example and the fact that America has led the World economically for decades. With America outsourcing these jobs, the American economy has been hollowed out, yet still has this massive military complex to maintain. The jobs are off shored and the Americans suffer.

Bring the jobs home and scale back, problem solved..... Partially.

[WorldPeace4All6]

@joekidd33

I disagree about Paul. His ideas on government are toxic. He is an ardent libertarianism, which means handing over all power to a small number of unelected wealthy. He wants to trade a corporate-government tyranny for a purely corporate tyranny; the power in the country would be in the hands of a few wealthy businessmen. There would be no assistance for the disabled or elderly. We would all be slaves to the capitalists. No thanks.

Anarcho-syndicalism would be a far better choice.

[fringeailments]

@WorldPeace4All6 well said, this is a great man, cant see much in common with paul.

[Mezocosm]

A great man who was still closely connected to the establishment. His criticism is highly valuable. His views on 9/11 expressed in this interview are ill informed or perhaps a what he considers a necessary lie. If you doubt and dismiss what I say please challenge yourself to watch zeitgeist or loose change. Please explain to me the insider trading.

[Lanparth]

RIP. :(

[alfredunhill]

R.I.P. Chalmers Johnson

[tonymuga]

You will be missed. But you left us with the truth. We thank you.

[michaelandcarina]

Rest in peace.

[alzhammer1]

Really different from Justin Bieber.........!

[diceyLee]

i cant not stand Harry Kreiler.... there were several times in Christopher Hitchen's episode that i wanted to throw something...

Doctor Johnson, Please reach out and slap that guy.... ill got 5$ bucks if you do

[alovelytime]

@diceyLee

shut up idiot. if it wasnt for him these interviews wouldnt have happened.

[emichik86]

I feel smarter just listening to this man.

[tnacidnem]

This is an hour long. You'll probably never find the time to watch it, but I urge you to try. It is important. Now you can't say that no one brought this to your attention.

[masterbuilder2009]

12:54 about his making these subjects available to young people:

He succeeded with his three books. I have listened to the audiobook versions on my mp3 player. They are quite good.

[SiNaoia]

On the overall... a lot of what Chalmers Johnson discuss with Kreisler is good... My gut hunch is Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld our VP & Secretary of State were in Cohutz with the Israeli ZioNAZI Regime creating 911 and a few other Terrorist Activities and had all those activities blamed on Ben Ladin, Al Qaida, etc.

I would like to hear this dialogue go in that direction.

Also, we are hearing that the CIA is the personal military force for George W Bush & Dick Cheney both are Criminals.

[SiNaoia]

Our Imperial Presidency Bush & Cheney dictated autocratically & OUR CONGRESS FAILED IN IT'S CHECKS AND BALANCE!!!

Why did Congress fail? Why didnt they do their job b/c it was totally controlled by the Republicans Democrats got squelched every time they resisted.

40% of Defense Budget is blocked & all CIA budget is blocked & always has been.

CIA was a created as an intelligence agency & now has became the presidence private army and an agency of Dirty Tricks Evil Regime.

[SiNaoia]

Ben L Denounced on Al Jazeerah any responsibility for 911 & warned that US, Israel & its Ally's were planning something big.

Yes, ZioNAZI Israel & USA sacrificed thousands of humans, firemen, medical people who went to help ... all sacrificed as a plot to go after there #1 enemy Iraq & Sadam.

The Truth is surfacing that Silverstein, Zelikow, Zakheim & many other Jews & US top admin. are involved with 911 & not the Arabs!

NO wonder Bush flew them out of USA for safety..They were innocent!!!

[SiNaoia]

Some 0f this interview is BS. Clearly C. Johnson is not doing his homework... ZioNAZI ISRAEL controls the Media. On 911 Media flashed World Wide Ben Ladin admitting responsibility for 911.

Yet, at that very time not only was he ILL he DENOUNCED any participation or responsibility with 911.

He knew western media would not show him honestly so he went to Al Zazeerah within days to speak out against US & it's ally's. He warned US citizens & world that US & Israel must be planning something big!

[SiNaoia]

WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD MUST DEMAND JUSTICE FOR TODAYS CRIMINALS:

ROTHSCHILD & INTERNATIONAL BANK GANGSTERS!

They control our countries leaders: Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs, etc. & they have history of creating World Wars, Depressions & Recessions to further their world Dominance & Greed for Wealth & Power!

A few other CRIMINALS:

Wolfowitz, Perl, Willian Kristol, Wumser, Kagan

& Others sucked us into attacking Iraq.

Silverstein, Zelikow, Zakheim & other Jews were involved in 9/11.

[SiNaoia]

Today WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are ASLEEP while ZioNazi enemy control our country.

WE HAVE NO Brave Soldier in position to fight BANK GANGSTAS of the world as Presidents Lincoln & J F Kennedy.

President Thomas Jefferson:

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God

&

The oppressed should rebel, & they will continue to rebel & raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them & all partial distinctions, exclusions & incapacitations are removed.

unquote

[SiNaoia]

The Rothschild GAngsters commissioned the Assassination of 3 Presidents that we know of today:

President Andrew Jackson b/c he refused to renew the 20 year BankStas Contract with the USA government. They attemped his death 2 times & failed... on his grave stone "I killed the Bank!"

President Lincoln went to the bank to get a loan & they wanted to charge the US citizens 26-36% interest but Abe Lincoln said NO!!! He decided to create his own debt free dollar, the "Green Backs"

Continue

[SiNaoia]

Rothschild & International BankStas could not have other countries following President Abe Lincoln by creating their own debt free dollars!

He had to die & they commissioned his assassination & cover-up.

President John F Kennedy the last honorable Brave Soldier who stood up against the Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank & other Zionist issues. He was getting ready to pick up where President Abe Lincoln left off with the "Green Backs" & minimize & dismiss Federal Reserve contractThey Killed him!

[SiNaoia]

i AM SPEAKING OUT...and whoever owns this website is refusing to let me complete my posting...

[SiNaoia]

LETS TALK ABOUT THIS:

Rothschild & the BANKStas (Gangsters) Coerced & Manipulated The HELL on earth & its Evil Environment we experience today.

ZioNazi Evil has stolen & taken hostage the JUDAIC Identity to create a FACADE of Spirituality as a Deceptive Front that would allow them to Murder, Steal Land & Infiltrate other countries to espionage ZioNAZI world control.

Judaism & Zionism are 2 different Entities.

Judaism believes in same god as Islam & Christians.

ZioNazi Praise & Honor SATAN!!

[SiNaoia]

ZioNazi are Evil... They lie & propagate untruth that is supposedly said by Ahmadinejad of Iran.

Ahmadinejad's basic stance is that ZIONIST ISRAEL MUST MAKE AMENDS WITH PALESTINE! In order for Peace to begin; even WITH it's neighbors.

Ahmadinejad also questions the big fuss over the Holocaust where 5 million plus people died; ONE death is tragic, but what about the estimated 62 to 78 million that died during the same WW II?

Zionist BankSters stirred Holocaust for Ottoman & Palestinian Land

[SiNaoia]

1760 Moses Bauer dies & his son Mayer Amschel Bauer recognizes the Meaning of the Red Hexagram sign hanging at his fathers door for many years of business as symbolizing 666. He changes his name in significance of the Red Sign to Rothschild meaning RED (Hexagram) SIGN.

A few 100 years later we find this very hexagram in the color of Blue as the symbol of the Israeli flag & its people brainwashed to believe that it's King David Star... No it's Luciferian in Nature:

= 666 the sign of the Beast

[SiNaoia]

1770 Mayer Amschel Rothschild draws up plans for the Creation of the Illuminati (Luciferian) & commissions Adam Weishaupt a Crypto-Jew who is outwardly Roman Catholic to complete the project.

1773, Meyer Rothschild held a secret meeting in The House of Rothschild at Jundestrasse, Frankfurt Germany, with twelve wealthy & influential European Financiers to discuss a MANUAL PLAN OF ACTION TO GAIN EVENTUAL CONTROL OF THE ENTIRE WEALTH OF THE WORLD.

"CONTROL ENTIRE WEALTH OF THE WORLD!!!"

[SiNaoia]

1776 This fantastic deception was conceived while Wieshaupt was employed as a professor of Cannon law at University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The Illuminati was formally founded by Wieshaupt on May 1, 1776.

Ironically, this secret order was being formed at the same time as the GREATEST DOCUMENTS to insure human freedom, the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.

The two have been at cross purposes ever since.

NOTE: USA Free Mason was of a Higher Order & had not been contaminated by ILLUMINATI...Yet!

[SiNaoia]

Creation of the United States was largely the work of the TRUE Freemason Lodges. The Organizers of the American Revolution and signers of the U.S. constitution, were primarily members of freemason lodges.

While on the other hand, the DISASTROUS French & Russian Revolutions with their following reigns of terror & worsening of the human condition, were largely the work of the "ILLUMINISED" Freemason Lodges of continental Europe which were named "Grand Orient Lodges."

---by Herbert G Dorsey III

[F1REbomb]

Johnson is arrogant and an elitist. Just look at the assholes commenting on this video. One guy just wrote "Fuck the troops" and it had two thumbs up. This guy and his idiot fans hate america.

[ForwarDotSlash]

The troops are knowingly complicit in tyranny and terror across the globe. We don't hate America, we merely want it to live up to the ideals it is supposed to embody

[F1REbomb]

You're a terrorist Mafia Wife. You would welcome Sharia.

[Arkinight]

@ForwarDotSlash I don't think they are knowingly complicit, the indoctrination and PR industry in the U.S. is very powerful. Most of these soldiers are propagandized to believe they are helping people.

[cindyknowsitall]

a lot of them are aware of the U.S position in the world. They however don't know how to speak out... too scared, they might get in trouble and may lose everything.

[bananacreamanarchy]

he does come off as rather snooty. Problem is: he is absolutely correct. What do we get for a trillion dollars of military spending?

[guruapa]

this is good stuff.. i always recommend chalmers johnsons books to people who are intrested in politics. please do that too

[SimmerInJuly]

Truly: Lincoln controlled the military and the press. Under his version of the mercantile system Dixie would've been kept poor and agrarian. During his undeclared {& "undeclarable"} war the transcontinental railroad's construction continued unabated & on-schedule. Lincoln's regime ended federalism.

[jaingxu]

I'm hungry for truth. Thank you Mr. Chalmers. I think we the people deserve the truth now more than ever. I think we've become an evil empire. I say bring the troops home...all of them. Our economy......it sucks. Our direction is unsustainable yet we have Obama spending more money instead of facing the need to cut spending and bring our troops home.

[mprat001]

His comments seem even more scary and relevant given what has happened in the world since this interview was recorded - I'm thinking about the segment from 51:34 to 54:19. So much for this supposed "recovery" we're in right now.

[pr00de]

fuck the troops

[soyrizo]

"The president goes around saying 'I'm the decider'.  It's hard to think of a more absurd remark".

Well put Chalmers!

[ThomasCBrannan]

Not absurd. Unfortunate, unconstitutional, utterly against the principles of America and democracy.

[ShockBack]

Long live Chalmers, Chomsky, Zinn and all others who speak truth to power.

[Veltanschaung]

Wonder how long the Obama Afghanistan $700B war would last if Chalmers Johnson were to write a NIE with the truth hitting the puppet media!

Brilliant man, even tho he had worked for the CIA. The Military industrial Empre remains the same as under Bushian ignorance and exported 'democratic' terror...BRAVO!

Should be Front Page material

[StaircaseFolly]

Can't get enough of CJ. His books are very readable, absorbing, and well-flowing. Read them.

[Hallibutbouy]

Why is this man not known by every member of the general public?

[scbluesman13]

@Hallibutbouy

Because he's an intellectual. In our country the majority of our voting population is not very educated, and is not interested in understanding the history & the consequences of our imperialist policies. So people like Chalmers Johnson get brushed off to the side as ivory tower theorists.

[paulo2008dias]

@Hallibutbouy Hello my friend, regards your question, because our society are more interested in what Oprah or Angelina Jolie are doing, I mean we live in an ignorant and naive society thanks to the Propaganda such as CNN,BBC,MSNBC,Fox etc...cheers and hope for a better future

[goodflo911]

@paulo2008dias Are you sure it's the propaganda that makes people watch oprah or angelina jolie? I think you have a very positive outlook on the general public then:P

[RusselBertrand]

This guy rocks...minus the sandals and socks :)

[SimmerInJuly]

Professor Chalmers Johnson's voice is reminiscent

of talk show host Dick Cavett.

[StaircaseFolly]

Now that you mention it, yeah. He's way more humble and west coast, though.

[SimmerInJuly]

Adam West & William Shatner sound alike as well.

[SimmerInJuly]

Total war wasn't the policy of Grant nor Sherman, it was that of the Commander-in-Chief/Chief Magistrate: "honest" Abe Lincoln. The fish rots from the head. Grant, Lincoln & Sherman should've got the gallows of course, with their mortal remains being dumped into a swamp, or used to chum the waters for sharks.

[johnnycon]

Excellent video. Johnson speaks so much sense.

[miglage]

My most sincere admiration and congratulation to Prof. Harry Kreisler and Prof. Chalmers Johnson. I enormously appreciate the intellectual level and knowledge of Mr. Johnson, but above all I love his sincerity and honesty. The world is in urgent need of people like you.

Kindest regards from Amersfoort, in the heart of Netherland. Michael

[patnais102]

I love this program and this Chalmers Johnson is definitely a great intellectual but like 27boof I'm still trying to figure out what is the name of the site at the end.Anyone know where I could find a transcript of this interview?

[hkeycurrentuser]

Why not just download the clip and burn it to a DVD? If that's not an option for you go to the "Conversations with History" website, click on the "Harry Kreisler" link (near the bottom of the page) and send him an email with your request. (He actually answers his email!) I'm not seeing a list of transcripts for these programs but maybe he can tell you how to get one.

[SkepticalThought]

He said antiwar [DOT] com

[patnais102]

all this money is based on finance those are only number (1/3 of the us gdp go to the finance sector) and you have to realize every country had to drop down their currency in order to keep the us dollar up , you want to know how much the dollar worth? Look at the price of an Oz of gold today.1g of gold worth 32.50 dollar it show how the us dollar worth less than nothing.The world major players will not depreciate their currency indefinitely to please the emperor.

[langbay2005]

I pity you...

[snowdove1111]

See terrorism in my own home. Help!

[artyphax]

What does Johnson say about the capture of our government by Zionists? Extraordinary rendition is an Isreali tactic.

[mbfinancial]

our empire is falling! tyranny will never convince other peoples to accept our rule! they will raise their own armies to fight us and will bleed us slowly to the bone!

[eruidfhjcvbn]

yeh spread the word

[alia4eva]

lol he's hillarious, i love his sarcasm, especially at 8:30.

[djking2003]

Does any one know the news website he mentioned @ 57:05? I couldn't hear him well

[27boof]

It sounds like he's saying a sound like: "ad-eye-war" .com

I googled about 15 different spellings of that sound - didn't come up with anything...

[langbay2005]

just in case you haven't found it out yet he said "antiwar"

[djking2003]

Now. that makes sense, why didn't I think of that? Thanks.

[holymolydude]

Adam Smith pointed out that governments almost never paid debts back, I don't imagine we'll pay back China. And I'm no poly-scientist but I'd imagine bankruptcy could solidify empire. Instead of borrowing money we could demand tribute and become some kind of warrior state for hire by a super economic power China.

[mikeyooh7]

We borrow much more from Japan than china. Japan is the third larget gdp with hundreds of millions of people less than china and also had rapid industrialization such as china but had terrible economic recessions. I don't think china is going to become an economic super power anytime soon their per capita income is just so low.

[Sariun]

Well if that was true, then america would still be british, now wouldn't it?

[bamadawgsc]

Investing in Euros as well as Pacific Rim stocks might not be a bad idea either.

[dermoni08]

please read his book i just read The Sorrows of Empire it great just read

[nk284]

titcr

[gbm322]

Harry Kreisler rox!!

[angelcarloscerrato]

well... the naked king has never been anything but naked. It´s easy for non-Americans to realize that. But the lesson remains the same: the effort most Americans need to make in order to stop being blindfolded is an effort to be made by any person from any country where the same synergies are taking place, cause we, the people -as opposed to the power- are all on the same boat, regardless of our nationality

[leeroynaggins]

"The chickens have come home to roost"!

Isn't that what Rev. Wright said? Oooh! He's so divisive and bombastic!

[maurieer]

A great thinker using greek mythology

all too well in his discription of

these political times.

Great man.

[cajunatheist]

What a brilliant thinker this guy is. Too bad America won't pay any attention to him.

[colbertbump]

I could not wait for Nemesis, the third book in his trilogy, to come out. While the subjects and his words are sobering and "scary", they are words that not enough people have heard but should. Also, words that not enough people believe are possible.

Chalmers is truly one of the great political geniuses of our time

[TheBigHo111]

Great interview. I speak to people about many of the subjects he brings up and get looked at like I have three heads! A few people believe I'm nuts to even care as much as I do. I think the end of the republic is upon us, unless Americans somehow understand history very soon. Most need to lose the primitive patriotism which allows them to believe their government can do no wrong.

[Taranau]

I think they've grown to take the first eight amendments for granted.Forgotten that they were put there to protect us from this sort of thing,and that they're not to be whittled away at.Weakening the amendments does not make us safe from outside forces.Weakening the amendments makes us less safe from inside forces.All the Founding Fathers warned us about the government doing us wrong,"for our own good".Too many citizens aren't listening anymore.

[rspawn]

thanks for posting this video

[mrzack888]

His speech disturbs me...

[myroseaccount]

So it should! It is very matter of fact and mostly quite accurate. There are areas that one could grumble about from an historical point of view, but he is very good!

[muzicboks]

Chalmers Johnson for US President!

[rvbarnesboy]

truth to power.  the book is fascinating and a little scary. I admire his work greatly.