Accelerating American Decline
February 23, 2026 | Trump can't outrun the U.S. date with destiny.
Articles by Melvin Goodman
The Self-Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership
May 26, 2025 | The world’s richest nation is killing the world’s poorest children.
Is 2025 the New 1984?
April 21, 2025 | Trump has a tricontinental vision for a new world order.
Slouching Towards Mount McKinley
March 8, 2025 | Donald Trump’s foreign policy is ending the American Century.
Tectonic Eruptions in Eurasia Erode America’s Global Power
May 3, 2023 | Does the rise of China necessarily mean the fall of America?
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.