Claim OwnershipBreaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
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Goodman and Moynihan report each week on the people and places caught in the middle, the ones most directly affected by policy debates, war and social issues. The column breaks through the glib clichés, dogmatic language and overall static that has permeated mainstream media coverage. Goodman and Moynihan’s unrestrained commentary from the front lines resonates with a generation that has an uncanny ability to spot the inauthentic in any discourse. The energy and passion for the truth found in this column inspires and rouses readers young Goodman and Moynihan report each week on the people and places caught in the middle, the ones most directly affected by policy debates, war and social issues. The column breaks through the glib clichés, dogmatic language and overall static that has permeated mainstream media coverage. Goodman and Moynihan’s unrestrained commentary from the front lines resonates with a generation that has an uncanny ability to spot the inauthentic in any discourse. The energy and passion for the truth found in this column inspires and rouses readers young and old from across the political spectrum.
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
This week Judge William Young excoriated the Trump administration’s attack on free speech. “This case — perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court — squarely presents the issue of whether non-citizens lawfully present here in [the] United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us,” he wrote. “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.'”
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
This week, 10 more nations recognized Palestinian statehood. Over 150 countries now recognize Palestine as a state, including 14 of 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. The only outlier: the United States, which consistently wields its Security Council veto power in defense of Israel.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Renowned for roles in films like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Robert Redford won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People” and numerous other awards over his storied career. But what mattered most to him was independent film.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country and around the world, not only through its raw violence, with a single, deadly sniper shot, but as a hallmark of worsening political divisions wracking the United States.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The courts are playing a central role in opposing the lawless Trump administration, but the core of the resistance are people–people at every level organized in opposition, defending democracy.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005, breaching New Orleans’ protective levees, unleashing unprecedented destruction.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Yes, slavery was bad, President Trump. It was evil and remains a stain on this country. We should never stop talking about it.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues were among the last journalists in northern Gaza, prepared to report on Israel’s renewed invasion of Gaza City to depopulate the city of 1 million Palestinians.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
We are standing at a real-world version of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, where thinking about the problem is no longer enough.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Sereen Haddad has finally won her degree. More importantly, this talented young graduate, in challenging starvation and genocide in Gaza, has gotten an education.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
There are more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza ghetto, now more than ever in need of food, aid, solidarity and action from us all.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Trump’s attack on climate action will intensify the global climate catastrophe, accelerating fossil fuel drilling and burning, essentially guaranteeing more deadly extreme weather events will happen in the future.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Independence Day occurs as this imperfect union faces an existential threat. President Donald Trump daily amasses more authoritarian control, unchecked by the Republican majority in Congress and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Narciso Barranco sits in ICE detention, with his two sons still on active duty in the US Marines not far away, at Fort Pendleton. It is past time to unmask the violent agents targeting people like Narciso, and halt Trump’s racist, xenophobic mass detentions and deportations.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targets are immigrants.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
As the summer heats up and with US democracy increasingly at risk, two fundamental truths must remain front and center: people have a First Amendment right to protest, and US soldiers have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump, only now surrounded by sycophants eager to enable his new travel ban, and with an even stronger majority on the Supreme Court.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
“Six-hundred days on, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest point yet,” reads the latest statement by the UN’s Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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