Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

media release for nonprofit organization benefit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 7 through March 7, 2007

Chalmers Johnson
in conversation with Gray Brechin

“NEMESIS: The Last Days of the American Republic”

Wednesday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.
King Middle School auditorium
1781 Rose Street
Berkeley
free parking & wheelchair access

tickets: $12 advance, $15 door Benefit: KPFA Radio & Global Exchange
tickets at many Bay Area independent bookstores:
East Bay – Black Oak, Cody’s, Diesel, Moe’s Books, Pegasus (2 stores), Pendragon, Global Exchange store, Walden Pond
San Francisco: Cody’s, Modern Times
Telephone ticket order: 415.255.7296x244 on-line: http://www.kpfa.org/

Public Information: http://www.kpfa.org or 510.848-6767x609

CHALMERS JOHNSON, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, is the author of the bestselling Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire. A contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine and The Nation, among others,
He appears in the 2005 prizewinning documentary film Why We Fight.

GRAY BRECHIN is the author of the best-selling Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, and Farewell, Promised Land. He has contributed essays to numerous newspapers and scholarly publications, and is a popular public speaker. Currently a Visiting Scholar in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography, he is working on a major original project regarding the FDR era.

“Nemesis” is a five-alarm warning about the militarism, imperial attitudes, secret armies, and executive arrogance that have torched the Constitution and brought the American Republic to death’s door.

—Karen Kwiatkowski, retired U.S.Air Force lieutenant colonel

“Chalmers Johnson’s voice has never been more urgently needed, and in Nemesis it rings with eloquence, clarity, and truth.”
—James Carroll, author of House of War

"Chalmers Johnson, a patriot who pulls no punches, has emerged as our most prescient critic of American empire and its pretensions. Nemesis is his fiercest book—and his best.”
—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism

“Last fall a treasonous Congress gave the president license to kidnap, torture—you name it—on an imperial scale. All of us, citizens and noncitizens alike, are fair game.”
— Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst

Sponsored by KPFA Radio, Global Exchange, and many Bay Area independent bookstores.

Media Contacts: June Brashares, 415-425-3733 (cell), 415-575-5542, june [at] globalexchange.org
Ken Preston-Pile, 510-967-4495, ken [at] globalexchange.org