Tectonic Eruptions in Eurasia Erode America’s Global Power
May 3, 2023 | Does the rise of China necessarily mean the fall of America?
Articles by Melvin Goodman
How a Little Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
February 24, 2016 | American military technology transformed remote, landlocked Afghanistan into the world’s first true narco-state.
The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
July 15, 2013 | For over a century, “surveillance blowback” from America’s wars has ensured the creation of massive internal surveillance state.
9/11 Commission Testimony Reveals Bush Administration Lacked Focus on Terrorism Prior to Attacks
October 2, 2005 | Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9/11 commission supports Richard Clarke’s charges to the commission that the Bush administration reduced the urgency of the problem of counter-terrorism--and that the invasion of Iraq marked a major diversion from the “war against terrorism.”
The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
September 30, 2005 | The fall of the Soviet Union handed the U.S. a unique opportunity, as the surviving superpower, to lead the world toward a period of greater cooperation and conflict resolution through the use of diplomacy, global organization, and international law. This great opportunity is being squandered, as the world becomes a more dangerous place.
A Cure for the CIA’s Disease
June 1, 2002 | Apparently, the CIA has returned to the policy world, which calls into question the kind of dope it is willing to provide to the White House.
Pearl Harbor Redux: The Warning Failure
October 1, 2001 | One week after the attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told the press corps "This isn't Pearl Harbor." No! It is worse.
CIA: The Need for Reform
February 1, 2001 | Reprimands in the Ames case prompted a mass exodus of bitter senior managers, who had refused to accept the need for punishing those who ignored the fact that a Soviet spy had contaminated the agency at the highest levels