“Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryCitizensProjectsResourcesSafetyBankruptcyGrandioseHealth And SafetyEconomic Resources Author:Chalmers Johnson
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.” PeopleFirstsStatesUseTurnsTermSecretLordPolicyArmsDrugConsequenceIntelligentPressesTerroristOperationsAgencyOfficialsReportsInternalsIllegalMerchantsRoguesKept SecretsUnintended Consequences Book:Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Source: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire