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.

The Wretched History of Regime

The Mad Man Theory Has Its Mad Men

Trump Will Make the US Irrelevant

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

The Fire Trump Started

Will the United States Have an Unpredictable Past?

Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, a Leading Apologist

What If the Conventional Wisdom About Putin’s War is Mostly Wrong?

Creeping Authoritarianism: the Case of Posse Comitatus

The Middle East And the Persian Gulf: Trump’s Favorite Shopping Mall

Donald the Destroyer Versus Civil Society

Danger: Global Security is Now in the Hands of Trump, Rubio and Hegseth

Marco Rubio and the Death of Diplomacy

The Meltdown of the United States

The Obscenity and Futility of US and Israeli Air Power

The Insecurities of Airman Teixeira and Secretary of Defense Hegseth

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius Remains the Leading Apologist for the CIA

Trump’s Lying Band of Brothers

The Audacious Hypocrisy of the Washington Post

Trump’s Sovietization of the United States

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Blames Zelensky for Last Month’s White House Mugging

Zelensky is Not Trump’s Only Hostage

Washington Post: What Constitutional Crisis?

When Musk Invades the Pentagon

Trump: the Meanness and Mendacity of Being

The American President is a “Meshuggener”

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”