Melvin A. Goodman

1 week ago | johnmenadue.com | Melvin A. Goodman

The United States is a national security state. Over the past half-century, it has unnecessarily conducted “forever wars” in Vietnam (1960s-1970s), Iraq (2000s-the present), Afghanistan (2000s-2020), and now possibly in Yemen. Not one of these costly ventures has advanced our national security, and — with the exception of Yemen — have been costly in terms of blood and resources. Even the Yemen war is getting costly.

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Melvin A. Goodman

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 techniques of bureaucratic politics and the use of mostly anonymous sources. In this way, the media have examined the politics, policies, and fulsome propaganda of the Trump’s presidency.

1 week ago | lankaweb.com | Melvin A. Goodman

Melvin GoodmanThe USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group off the coast of Hawai’i. Official U.S. Navy photo by: PH2 Gabriel WilsonThe United States is a national security state. Over the past half-century, it has unnecessarily conducted forever wars” in Vietnam (1960s-1970s), Iraq (2000s-the present), Afghanistan (2000s-2020), and now possibly in Yemen. Not one of these costly ventures has advanced our national security, and—with the exception of Yemen—have been costly in terms of blood and resources.

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Melvin A. Goodman

The United States is a national security state. Over the past half-century, it has unnecessarily conducted “forever wars” in Vietnam (1960s-1970s), Iraq (2000s-the present), Afghanistan (2000s-2020), and now possibly in Yemen. Not one of these costly ventures has advanced our national security, and—with the exception of Yemen—have been costly in terms of blood and resources. Even the Yemen war is getting costly as well.

2 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Melvin A. Goodman

There is no more important or prestigious cabinet position than the secretary of state. The first secretaries included such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay. All became presidents or almost reached the presidency. In contemporary times, secretaries of state included Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and John Kerry.