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Mel Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.
- Mainstream Media Largely Ignore Israel’s Duplicity and Deceit
- Biden and the Washington Post Combine to Argue for War
- Is There No End to the War-Mongering of the Washington Post
- The Need for Immediate Ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza
- Sino-American Relations: Breaking the Gordian Knot
- US Advice to Israel: “Use Smaller Bombs”
- Paul Krugman Dismisses the Existence of a Military-Industrial Complex
- Biden Endorses the “Indispensable Nation”
- Washington Post’s David Ignatius and His Ignorance of the Middle East
- Israeli State Terrorism Over the Years
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Happy to be on the podcast Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael recently. A podcast where politics, history, and culture are examined from perspectives you may not have considered before. Call it a parallax view. On this edition of Parallax Views, former CIA and State Department analyst Melvin A. Goodman, known for his book Whistleblower at the…
Biden Endorses the “Indispensable Nation”
Too many nations like to think of themselves as a chosen nation or an indispensable nation, but only the United States has the global power and the power of projection to try to enforce its will the world over. The President of the United States should know better than to indulge in the kind of hubris and triumphalism associated with American exceptionalism. The Biden administration is currently having great difficulty convincing the international community to support its policies toward both Ukraine and Israel because many nations have serious questions about U.S. and Israeli misuse of force in the recent past.
