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 USS Liberty: a Well-Planned Accident

The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization

The Washington Post’s Newest Strategy for Challenging China

The Global Importance of Sino-American Relations

The Biden Administration and the Crossroads of Conflict

US Hypocrisy and the Global South

The US and the War Crimes in the War on Terror

Is the US Finally Losing Influence in the Middle East?

The Washington Post’s Syria Fixation

The Washington Post’s One-Sided Assessment of Disinformation

The “October Surprise”: Throwing History Off Course

Still Spinning the Iraq War 20 Years Later

China’s Foreign Policy: Lessons for the United States

The United States and Human Rights: a History of Hypocrisy

John Bolton, the Washington Post and the Death of Arms Control

Blinken’s Unwise, Unwarranted Trip to Central Asia

The Biden National Security Team Must Get Smarter…Sooner

The Chinese Balloon: the Biden Team’s Hot Air

A Costly and Prolonged Cold War Now Seems a Certainty

Breaking the Addiction to Secrets and Secrecy

Harvard’s Kennedy School: Key Part Of The Military-Industrial Complex

Can the United States Provide an Off-Ramp For Putin?

The New Cold War Could Be Worse

Diplomacy For Dealing With the Problem of North Korea

How the New York Times Mythologizes US-Israeli Relations

Biden’s National Security Team is Trailing Badly at Halftime

Understanding Russian National Security

Fascism: Israeli Style

The Mid-Term Elections And American Foreign Policy

The Militarism and Mechanics of the National Security State

The NYT Loses Its Editorial Mind

Biden’s Obsession With China

Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis

United States and Russia: Dangerous Export of Democracy and Dictatorship

Meet Our New “Secretary Of State”…Nancy Pelosi

The Dangerous Civilian-Military Chasm In America

Sino-American Relations: Breaking The Gordian Knot

America’s Exploitation of Gorbachev

Biden, Pelosi and the Futility of Dual Containment

Henry Kissinger: A Warmonger’s Lying Continues

President Biden and Iran: the Cost of a Missed Opportunity

The “New” Middle East Resembles The Old Middle East

Washington Post Promotes New Adversary For Pentagon: The Middle East

Moscow’s War In Ukraine vs. Washington’s “Special Military Operation”

More Bloat For Bloated Defense Spending

The NYT Acknowledges the CIA’s Big Lie for Gina Haspel

American Exceptionalism: Our Gun Culture at Home and Abroad

The Danger of Worsening Relations With Both Russia and China

The United States Specializes in Exaggerating the Threat

What Russian Folklore Can Tell Us About Russia