Author/Former CIA Analyst Melvin Goodman on the Surreal News this Friday
WSLR 96.5 FM welcomes Melvin Goodman (Author, former CIA analyst) as our guest.
When: Friday, May 30 from 9 am to 10 am EST
Where: The Surreal News on WSLR 96.5 LP FM Sarasota, Florida. If you cannot get it then hear the show live via INTERNET STREAMING (on WSLR.org “Live Broadcasting”), or hear us podcast on demand on iTunes, on Pacifica Broadcast Network, or at the web site thesurrealnews.com.
If you have any questions for the guests e-mail them to steve52n@aol.com.
Mel will also be at Sanier Auditorium, New College for a Free talk starting at 7 pm Friday May 30.
Melvin Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, a nonprofit educational and research organization promoting a US foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights http://www.ciponline.org/. He is also adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Mel served as a senior Soviet analyst at the CIA from 1966-1986, and intelligence adviser to the SALT delegation in 1971-72. His book, co-written with Craig Eisendrath, Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neo-Conservatives Are Putting the Nation at Risk (2004), examines how the Bush administration has rolled back over half a century of foreign policy accomplishments and what must be done to restore America?s reputation. His newest book is The Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (released January 2008). His articles have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, Washington Monthly, Foreign Service Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, to name a few. He can discuss what can be done to make intelligence agencies more efficient and effective, how the Bush Administration uses military force as a main tool of foreign policy, torture as a means of extracting information, practice of spying on Americans without court orders, myths about the ´Intelligence Community,¡ Intelligence and the role of the CIA in Iraq, the likelihood of an exit from Iraq in the near or distant future, why the war on terror has made us even less safe than before.
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