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“Homeland Security”: Ideal Authoritarian Tool

“Homeland Security”: Ideal Authoritarian Tool an interview on Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

The Drive with Steve Jackson – KRSO Interview

In this interview with Steve Jackson, The Drive program KRSO, we focus on legal issues, namely mine, and why I am suing the state department. Listen to understand why I am suing.

Interview w/ IAN TROTTIER on Discussions of Truth podcast

Melvin Goodman: Trump war on US governance. 42 years in US intelligence and DC. Listen Now to my recent interview in this episode of Discussions of Truth w/ IAN TROTTIER podcast.

KLAW: Your Call: Whistleblower at the CIA

Goodman says the system for keeping America’s intelligence community accountable is broken. Federal employees fear reprisal if they reveal violations. When whistleblowers leak information, the contents of their disclosures don’t become the target of investigations or media attention, they do. Why is whistleblowing so important?

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The NYT’s Proclaims Israel’s Military Has Reclaimed Its “Stature”

Several days after the Washington Post bogusly declared that Israel has recovered the “military primacy” that it lost a year ago, the New York Times goes one step further.  It obscenely proclaims that the Israeli military has regained its “stature.”  We’re are talking about a sophisticated and lethal military force that has been facing Arab adversaries who lack air power and air defense for the past 57 years. 

Netanyahu’s Dangerous Militarism

Greater use of Israeli military power has not provided Israel with greater security over the years, and there is no reason to believe that any retaliation—other than a symbolic response similar to the April attack—would end the current cycle of permanent occupation.  Israeli analysts continue to speak of “escalate to deescalate,” “escalation dominance,” and “restoration of deterrence,” but Israel’s “targeted assassinations,” the violence of settlers on the West Bank, and the genocidal campaign in Gaza will never serve any long-term strategic purpose. 

Containing the National Security State

Containing the National Security State