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

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told an NBC interviewer last week that the expansion of the North Atlantic Treat Organization was a...

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

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Melvin Goodman

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

The mainstream media are describing John Bolton as an experienced diplomat and a serious analyst. He was neither. Many members of the media are...

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Melvin Goodman

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

“Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition...

12.08.2025 20

Melvin Goodman

Trump’s Policies Will Make China Great Again

China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record...

08.08.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense

The off-and-on debate that has revolved around the feasibility and dependability of Natioinal Missile Defense has been present since the Reagan...

04.08.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

The Sad History of “Changing the Map” of the Middle East

Netanyahu is proclaiming that his war against Hamas, the attacks on Iran, and the new attacks on Syria will create a “new” Middle East. Israel...

30.07.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

The New York Times’ Leading Apologist for Israel is Still at It

Last week, Bret Stephens, the New York Times’ leading warmonger and apologist for Israel, penned a lead editorial that denied Israel was...

28.07.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

The Waste and Futility of the Golden Dome National Missile Defense System

The United States is responsible for half of global spending on defense. The Trump administration is committed to spending more than $1 trillion...

21.07.2025 20

Melvin Goodman

Some Fundamentals of Russian National Security Policy

It’s often stated that useful collaboration with Russia is not possible. Is this true? Not really. There are some areas where useful...

14.07.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

Two Leading Narcissists Meet at the White House

Narcissism is a personality trait characterized by an excessive preoccupation with oneself, a sense of entitlement, and a need for admiration. It...

10.07.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

The Wretched History of Regime

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to come to Washington in the next week or so, and probably will make his case for regime change in...

30.06.2025 20

Melvin Goodman

The Mad Man Theory Has Its Mad Men

“You know what November 5 was? It was the election of a president that loves you.” – Donald Trump to applause and cheers from soldiers at Fort...

20.06.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Trump Will Make the US Irrelevant

Donald Trump’s executive actions are clearly weakening the international standing of the United States and begging the question of U.S. relevance in...

13.06.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Robert Gates: Four Decades of Truckling

Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the...

12.06.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

The Fire Trump Started

It is clear that Donald Trump has been hoping for a protest that he can use to expand his use of the military and other militarized units. A...

09.06.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Will the United States Have an Unpredictable Past?

The belief that Russia is a country with an unpredictable past is a common one, frequently cited in academic and cultural studies. Now the Trump...

04.06.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness

Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration. He is the secretary of state, the acting national security adviser, the acting director...

02.06.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, a Leading Apologist

The Washington Post’s senior national security columnist, David Ignatius, is the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central...

29.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

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

The conventional wisdom regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is universally accepted by retired generals and...

22.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Creeping Authoritarianism: the Case of Posse Comitatus

The purpose of the Posse Comitatus Act was to stop U.S. Marshalls from deputizing soldiers to serve the Border Patrol or the Customs Service. Until...

20.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

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

Donald Trump’s first official travel overseas in both his first and second presidential terms centered on the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. ...

16.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Donald the Destroyer Versus Civil Society

The mainstream media have examined the governance of Donald Trump over the first term and the hundred days of the second term, using the familiar...

08.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

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

Most of our recent presidents have been engaged as commanders-in-chief in managing conflict in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and Southwest Asia,...

05.05.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Marco Rubio and the Death of Diplomacy

Rubio has made the Department of State virtually irrelevant, playing no role in key negotiations involving wars between Russia and Ukraine as well as...

29.04.2025 30

Melvin Goodman

The Meltdown of the United States

In less than 90 days, the United States under Trump has become a very different country. It is not an exaggeration to say that the United States is...

17.04.2025 20

Melvin Goodman

The Obscenity and Futility of US and Israeli Air Power

For the past 80 years, the United States and Israeli air power have owned the global and Middle Eastern skies, respectively, but wars are typically...

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Melvin Goodman

The Insecurities of Airman Teixeira and Secretary of Defense Hegseth

Hegsmeth have little in common. Teixeira is serving a 15-year sentence for leaking Pentagon documents on an unclassified web site called 4chan and...

07.04.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

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

For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency,...

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Trump’s Lying Band of Brothers

We know that Donald Trump is not fit to be sitting in the White House. He is a dangerously disordered president, and we have observed enough...

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Melvin Goodman

The Audacious Hypocrisy of the Washington Post

ast week, the Washington Post audaciously posted a lead editorial that warned about “A threat to First Amendment Rights.” For the past six...

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Melvin Goodman

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

On March 3, only three days after the mugging of Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, two foreign policy...

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Melvin Goodman

Zelensky is Not Trump’s Only Hostage

“It was a sickening spectacle: the man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy. – Maureen Dowd, “Trump is...

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Melvin Goodman

Washington Post: What Constitutional Crisis?

It is difficult to keep up with Donald Trump’s challenges to U.S. democracy, and it is similarly difficult to keep up with the Washington Post’s...

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Melvin Goodman

When Musk Invades the Pentagon

In an oped in the Washington Post this week, former secretary of the navy Richard Danzig recommended deploying Elon Musk and his team from the...

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Melvin Goodman

Trump: the Meanness and Mendacity of Being

All presidents bring their own characteristics and governing styles to the White House. Lyndon Johnson, who assumed the presidency in the most awful...

12.02.2025 20

Melvin Goodman

The American President is a “Meshuggener”

Donald Trump has occupied the White House for only three weeks, and the term “crazy town,” which former chief of staff John Kelley applied to...

10.02.2025 10

Melvin Goodman

Trump’s Coup Started on Day One and Continues Apace

COUP D’ETAT: A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the alteration of an existing government by a small group. During last...

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Melvin Goodman

Trump: Leader of the Fascist World?

FASCISM: Fascism is a populist political philosophy that exalts the nation and often race above the individual. It is associated with a...

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Trump Hates Accountability So He Fires Independent Inspectors General

Trump broke the law last Friday night when he summarily fired 18 inspectors general and ignored the 1978 law that requires giving 30 days notice to...

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A Fools Paradise: Thomas Friedman and the Middle East

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level. Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken eventually recognized that...

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

Wiles is not only unable or unwilling to tell the president “No,” but there are too many influential voices around Trump who appear successful in...

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Melvin Goodman

The Return of Donald the Destroyer

Our concern with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump underplays the central question of his presidency: Is Donald Trump...

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

Jeff Bezos blocked an editorial in the Washington Post last year that endorsed Kamala Harris’s run for the presidency, and his senior editors...

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

A key measure of any U.S. president’s success is the ability or good fortune to leave his successor with a better international situation than the...

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

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US China Policy: Too Late, Too Little to Offer

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For the past several decades, the United States and Israel have tried to isolate Syria in the Middle East. Only U.S. Secretary of State Henry...

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

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