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Donald Trump made it clear in the 2016 presidential debates that he had no understanding of the central issues of the nuclear…
Melvin A. 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, National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism, and Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence. Goodman is the national security columnist for Counterpunch.
Sixty years ago, we survived a nuclear standoff between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev that inspired literature on crisis management and…
On November 3rd, we will learn whether the United States decides to bolster its democratic republic or take the road to authoritarian fascism
It is useful to have Bolton’s testimony at the climactic moment in the current impeachment trial, but it should’t blind us to his deceit and disinformation over his thirty years of opposition to U.S. international diplomacy
Donald Trump pointedly drove to the Pentagon on Friday to close U.S. borders to refugees from around the world; to block families…
The appointment of a neo-conservative national security team points the Trump administration in an extreme hardline direction
There are two compelling factors that stand out in any examination of the crisis in Gaza: the persistent intransigence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli unwillingness to pursue a diplomatic and political solution to the Palestinian tragedy
President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address more than 50 years ago is famous for its warning about the military-industrial complex, but he also warned…
The attacks on Washington and New York City nine years ago extracted a terrible price in terms of blood and treasure. Unfortunately,…