Melvin A. Goodman

Mel’s Archive contains his previous analyses for Florida Veterans for Common Sense and CounterPunch.org.

Analyses from Mel’s Archive

• Trump’s War on Governance
• Trump Crossed Red Line
• Trump’s Attack on the Truth
• Trump’s War on Democracy
• A Pandemic of Lies
• War on Arms Control
• Trump’s War on Accountability
• Trump’s Attacks Break Precedence
• Trump’s War on Truth
• A Threat to Our Democracy

Mel’s Older Analyses on CounterPunch.org

• Reagan’s Lessons: In and Out of Cold War
• Biden’s Legacy: The Decline of Arms Control and Disarmament
• The Disappearance of International Law
• Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years
• A Looming Nuclear Catastrophe
• Harris and the Need for Diplomacy
• Biden Believes He Doesn’t Have to Talk to Putin 
• Blueprints for Authoritarianism: Mein Kampf and Project 2025
• A Personal Discussion of Russian National Security
• Nato Expansion: the Road to Cold War and War Itself
• Trump’s Debate: a Victory for Pathological Liars Everywhere
• The US is Mired in a Cold War Model From the 1950s
• The Outrageous Congressional Invitation to Netanyahu
• The Attack on the USS Liberty Symbolize’s Israel’s Duplicity and Deceit
• The Washington Post’s Mouthpiece for Israel: David Ignatius
• Friedman, Biden and US Weapons Sales to Israel
• Donald Trump’s War on science and the Environment
• Washington Post’s David Ignatius Remains Clueless About the Middle East
• Nuclear Uncertainty Has Replaced Deterrence
• Washington Post’s David Ignatius Declares Victory in Ukraine…Once Again!
• America’s National Security Future is Dismal
• The Years 1968 And 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?
• Iran and U.S. Say Enough, Will Israel Go Along?
• Spies and Their Lies: The Trials and Tribulations at Guantanamo
• Meet the Newest Apologist for Israel: Rear Admiral John Kirby
• Washington Post Believes U.S. & Israel “Can Get Back on the Same Page” 
• The United States and the Middle East: the Politics of Miscalculation
• The Atlantic Joins the Chorus of Fear
• Two Wars, Five Losing Nations
• CIA’s Torture and Abuse: America’s Shame!
• Netanyahu and Israel in Decline and May Take Biden With Them
• Never Forget Who Donald Trump Really Is
• Biden is Dragging the United States Deeper Into the Middle East  
• Deal With Iran Politically and Diplomatically, Not Militarily 
• Why Are Our Regional Experts Expecting More War in Every Corner?
• Meet the Washington Post’s Leading Apologist for Israeli Genocide
• Netanyahu and the IDF Provided All the Evidence the ICJ Needed 
• The Costly Failures of Intelligence
• The Dangerous Myth of  the “Indispensable Nation”
• The United States and the Middle East: Hoist On Its Own Petard
• The Commonality of Megalomania
• Unmitigated Horror: Guernica, the Warsaw Ghetto, and Now Gaza
• Janus-Faced Biden Administration Can’t Hide It’s Complicity
• Both Biden and Bibi Could be Victims of the Israeli War Against Hamas
• Kissinger: “The World’s Most Dangerous Man”
• 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 Immediate Need for 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
• The Strategic Nightmare That Follows the “Forever War”
• When Difi Took on the CIA Over Torture
• We Must Reduce the American Role in the Middle East
• More Evidence Ragarding Henry Kissinger’s Lies About Chile
• The CIA Director Should Not be Part of the Policy Process
• A Grain Airlift for Ukraine
• The Strange Rehabilitation of Elliot Abrams
• U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine: An Act of Desperation
• The Institutionalization of the New Cold War
• Has the Putin-Prigozhin Confrontation Opened a Door for Negotiation?
• Netanyahu Takes Aim at U.S. Diplomacy Again
• The Enduring Trauma of War Scares for the United States and Russia
• Birds of a Feather: Trump and Airman Jack Teixeira
• The USS Liberty: a Well-Planned Accident
• The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization
• The Washington Post’s Newest Strategy for Challenging China
• The Global Importance of Sino-American Relations
• The Biden Administration and the Crossroads of Conflict
• US Hypocrisy and the Global South
• The US and the War Crimes in the War on Terror
• Is the US Finally Losing Influence in the Middle East?
• The Washington Post’s Syria Fixation