Melvin Goodman

Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.  A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. and A Whistleblower at the CIA. His most recent books are “American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing, 2019) and “Containing the National Security State” (Opus Publishing, 2021). Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.

Trump’s Coup Started on Day One and Continues Apace

Trump: Leader of the Fascist World?

Trump Hates Accountability So He Fires Independent Inspectors General

A Fools Paradise: Thomas Friedman and the Middle East

The NYT’s Trumpeting of Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is Absurd

The Return of Donald the Destroyer

Washington Post Supports Many Of Trump’s Miscreants For Key Posts

The Dangers of Biden’s Legacy and Trump’s Inheritance

NYT’s Apologist For Israel is No Longer a “Never Trumper”

The Death of Ambassador Raymond Garthoff and Disarmament

US China Policy: Too Late, Too Little to Offer

Syria: Will the United States Try to Stop Israeli Militarism in the Middle East?

Biden’s Moral Failure Was Israel and Not the Pardon of His Son

The Washington Post Excoriates the ICC for Issuing Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

NYT’s Friedman’s Two-State Solution: Delusion, Illusion and Confusion

The Winner of the US Presidential Elections? Prime Minister Netanyahu

Trump’s House of Horrors

Washington Post’s David Ignatius Mysteriously Sees “Significant Progress” in Stabilizing Three Dangerous Wars

 The New York Times Places Israel In A “Better Strategic Position”

Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos Isn’t Completely Wrong About the Media

The Latest Absurdities From the Columnists of the New York Times

The New York Times Finally Admits Gaza is an Outdoor Prison

The NYT’s Proclaims Israel’s Military Has Reclaimed Its “Stature”

Netanyahu’s Dangerous Militarism

Same Old Robert Gates: The Poster Child for US Militarization

No End to Israel’s Killing Machine and U.S. Complicity

Reagan’s Lessons: In and Out of Cold War

Biden’s Legacy: the Decline of Arms Control and Disarmament

Biden’s Legacy: The Decline of Arms Control and Disarmament

The Disappearance of International Law

Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years

A Looming Nuclear Catastrophe

Harris and the Need for Diplomacy

Mainstream Media’s Leading Warmonger: NYT Columnist Bret Stephens

Biden Believes He Doesn’t Have to Talk to Putin

Blueprints for Authoritarianism: Mein Kampf and Project 2025

A Personal Discussion of Russian National Security

NATO Expansion: the Road to Cold War and War Itself

How the Presidential Debate Harmed US Foreign Policy

The Trump Supreme Court’s War on the Environment

Trump’s Debate: a Victory for Pathological Liars Everywhere

The US is Mired in a Cold War Model From the 1950s

Biden Team Ignores Israel’s History of Deceit and Deception

The Outrageous Congressional Invitation to Netanyahu

The Attack on the USS Liberty Symbolizes Israel’s Duplicity and Deceit

The Washington Post’s Mouthpiece for Israel: David Ignatius

Friedman, Biden and US Weapons Sales to Israel

Donald Trump’s War on Science and the Environment

Washington Post’s David Ignatius Remains Clueless About the Middle East

Nuclear Uncertainty Has Replaced Nuclear Deterrence