By Mel Goodman on Jun 27, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org (read the comments) with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ CIA director Leon Panetta soon will become secretary of defense, taking over Washington's largest and most powerful bureaucracy with [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jun 15, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org (read the comments) with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ During the worst days of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union learned that their third-world [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jan 16, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org (read the comments) with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued his prophetic warning about the military-industrial complex, anticipating the increased [...]
By Mel Goodman on Dec 5, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a blistering report that documented a secret drug interdiction program in Peru that was [...]
By Mel Goodman on Oct 31, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ President Barack Obama and CIA Director Leon Panetta have managed to accomplish what the Bush administration and three CIA directors failed to [...]
By Mel Goodman on Oct 17, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to ensure that the policy community would have access to independent [...]
By Mel Goodman on Oct 10, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ Bob Woodward’s "Obama’s Wars" offers a disturbing account of President Barack Obama’s lack of leadership and the flawed decision-making practices of his [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________
By Mel Goodman on Sep 2, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. _______________________________________________ The "double envelopment" or pincer movement is a classic military maneuver that finds the flanks of the opponent under simultaneous attack from the opposing forces. The maneuver may have been used [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jul 16, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. _______________________________________________ President Barack Obama has been a major disappointment to a liberal community that rallied to his call for genuine change. His administration has made no attempt to investigate the crimes [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jun 29, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. _______________________________________________ The New York Times‘ David Brooks minimized General Stanley McChrystal’s remarks in Rolling Stone magazine as "kvetching." For the Times‘ Maureen Dowd, McChrystal and his "smart-aleck aides" were merely engaging in "towel-snapping" jocularity. [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jun 10, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from Consortium News with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. Consortium News Editor’s Note: President Obama has sought to counter right-wing and Republican attacks on him as “soft” on national security by staffing top positions with retired senior military officers, but the shortage [...]
By Mel Goodman on May 10, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. David Ignatius, The Washington Post’s self-appointed apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck again. Last year, Ignatius argued that it was "just plain nuts" to investigate the CIA’s assassination program because "nobody had [...]
By Mel Goodman on Mar 19, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from Truthout.org with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. Karl Rove. (Photo: chicagopublicradio) Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl Rove’s [...]
By Mel Goodman on Mar 5, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Republished from the Center for International Policy with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this post. —————————————————– Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week that revealed the cold-war thinking of a key holdover [...]
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