CIA Whistleblower Talk Sponsored by FLVCS
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center
(525 Kumquat Court)
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Tickets: $15 adv/$20 door Chef Richard’s Kumquat Kitchen will be open.
Melvin A. Goodman was a soviet analyst at the CIA and Department of State for 24 years, and a professor of international relations at the National War College for 18 years. He served in the U.S. Army in Athens for 3 years, and was intelligence advisor to the SALT delegation in 1971-1972. Currently, Goodman is the Director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, and adjunct professor of government at John Hopkins University. He authored, co-authored and edited seven books including National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism; Gorbachev’s Retreat: The Third World; The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze; The Phantom Defense: America’s Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion and Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconsevatives are Putting the World at Risk.
Recent News and Latest Book
Meet Our New “Secretary Of State”…Nancy Pelosi
In any event, Pelosi’s travel to the world’s worst trouble spots creates significant confusion regarding official U.S. policies and politics. In flexing the flabby diplomatic muscles of the U.S. Congress, Pelosi is engaging the international community without any obvious coordination with the White House or the Department of State. The notion that anyone from the House of Representatives could have an impact on U.S. foreign policy or diplomacy is particularly ludicrous. Unfortunately, her trips seemingly amount to a last hurrah.
The Dangerous Civilian-Military Chasm In America
One of the greatest weaknesses of presidential leadership over the past 60 years has been the lack of presidential experience in the military and the inability to control the military. Several weeks before his seminal Farewell Address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told his senior advisers in the White House, “God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn’t know the military as well as I do.” His successors have been deferential to the military and too many of them have used military force to bolster their credentials. This has been a major factor in the expanded power of the military establishment.
