CounterPunch Op-Ed
Mel Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.
- Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius: Why Do You Want More War?
- Bill Clinton’s Role in the Crisis Over Ukraine
- Kazakhstan: Militarist’s Newest Case For Confronting Putin’s Russia
- Biden and the Tragedy of American Foreign Policy
- J. Edgar Hoover’s Legacy: Spying On Democracy
- The Mainstream Media Seems to Want More War for the United States
- President Biden’s Democracy Summit: An “International Kiss”
- The United States Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis
- The United States Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis
- The Pentagon and the Washington Post: Cold War Brothers-in-Arms
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Biden and the Tragedy of US Foreign Policy
Not since the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower has the United States elected a chief executive with formidable experience in international security policy. President Biden has decades of foreign policy experience in the White House and the Senate, which is extremely unusual in American presidential politics. Therefore, he should be held to a high standard; thus far, his performance has been flawed.
J. Edgar Hoover’s Legacy: Spying On Democracy
The FBI has been conducting domestic surveillance operations since its inception in the 1920s, marking nearly a hundred years of violating the First Amendment of the Constitution. Very few of these operations involved the investigation and gathering of evidence of a serious crime, the only justification for FBI surveillance. J. Edgar Hoover, appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation in1924, amassed illegal powers of surveillance that enabled him to conduct extra-legal tracking of activists, collect compromising information, and even to threaten and intimidate sitting presidents.
