The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen – 7 pm Tonight
Interviewed on April 1st for air on April 2nd, 2020 – streaming live at wnhnfm.org at noon and 7pm EST (M-F)
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The Coronavirus and the Urgent Need to Redefine National Security by Mel Goodmanhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/25/the-coronavirus-and-the-urgent-need-to-redefine-national-security/ bio: 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 and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. and A Whistleblower at the CIA. His most recent book is “American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing), and he is the author of the forthcoming “The Dangerous National Security State” (2020).” Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org
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