[news] Teaching Imperialism 101: A Litany of Horrors

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Chalmers Johnson - Tom Dispatch

The RAND Corporation was the ur-think tank, the Cold War granddaddy of them all, and it's still with us. In the 1950s, nuclear war-gaming a conflagration...it took the U.S. military into virtuality and science fiction long before there was an Internet to play with...In the 1960s, it helped several administrations plan and fight the Vietnam War, making antiseptic theory into an all-too-grim reality. And that's just the beginning of the work RAND did on a range of hot-button imperial issues...For a brief period in the 1960s, **Chalmers Johnson** was a RAND consultant.  


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