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 Washington Post’s David Ignatius Underestimates Xi Jinping

Sino-American Relations and the “Thucydides Trap”

Europe is Distancing Itself From Trump’s Narcissistic Actions

The NYT Endorses a Stronger Military. Why?

Trump to Beijing: Will He Loosen or Tighten the Gordian knot

Pentagon Spending Spirals Out of Control

No Guardrails for Trump’s Dark Triad

This Isn’t Mad Man Theory, It’s a Mad Man

Trump’s Nightmare is Now Ours

The New York Times Finally Has “Fresh Doubts” About Trump’s Diplomacy

The NYT Times Continues to Normalize Trump

The Intelligence Community and the Essential Role of Threat Assessment

The US’s Strategic Alliance With Israel is a Disaster

Trump and Putin: Their Failures in Regime Change

This is Evil, Not the Banality of Evil!

Trump’s War and Murky Messages From the Mainstream Media

Trump’s National Security Chaos: What Needs to be Done

Trump’s National Security Team: Dangerous and Dysfunctional

The New York Times Still Gives Israel the Benefit of the Doubt on the USS Liberty

Trump’s Destruction of Diplomacy and Disarmament

Acts of Revisionism: Hitler, Stalin and Trump

Nazi Germany 1933 and MAGA America 2025

Donald Trump, Poster Child for Megalomania

The New York Times and Occam’s Razor: Misunderstanding Ukraine and Venezuela

Donald the Destroyer: Act II

The New York Times Support for Israel Never Ends

Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary

Prominent Think Tank Joins Media in Endorsing Trump’s Foreign Policy

The NYT Wants More Defense Spending

The Washington Post’s Ignatius, Always Optimistic on Trump’s “Peace” Plans

Trump Has Trashed the US’s Post-WW II Foreign Policy

Trump is Melting Down: Is This the Beginning of the End?

NYTs Calls Trump Strategy in South America “Pragmatic”

Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome

The Many Crimes of CIA Covert Actions

One More Betrayal of the Palestinians

What is It: Peace Plan or Ultimatum?

Setting the Stage for the Insurrection Act

Washington Post: Losing Credibility and Reporters

Manufacturing Excuses: Why Does David Ignatius Give Apologizing for Israeli Atrocities?

Washington Post Targets Disarmament in Its March to the Right

The Politicization of Intelligence Weakens the United States

The Washington Post Turns Further to the Right

Trump and the Post-American World

Russia’s Foreign Minister Cites NATO Expansion as Cause of Ukraine War

The NYT’s David Sanger Foolishly Likens Trump to Teddy Roosevelt

Remembering the FBI’s Deceit and John Bolton’s Dangerous Career

The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt

Trump’s Policies Will Make China Great Again

The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense