Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman

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.

COP29: The Dictatorship of the Petroletariat

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The worsening climate catastrophe, fueled by the world’s centuries-long embrace of fossil fuels, demands a united, world-wide response from all nations, including authoritarian ones. But does the conference itself have to be held in a country where dissent is criminalized, protests are banned and there is no free press nor right to free speech?

11-21
06:17

Trump's Despotic Deportation Plan Takes Shape

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The challenge now is for people with the privilege and protections of US citizenship to act in solidarity with the millions of our threatened, undocumented neighbors, and confront Trump’s planned mass deportations with disciplined, sustained mass resistance.

11-14
06:23

Biden Can Make Every Lame Duck Day Count by Stopping the Killing Now

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump will become President of the United States on Monday, January 20th, 2025. Until that time, though, President Joe Biden remains in the Oval Office.

11-07
05:57

Hatred and Racism: Trump’s Ominous Closing Argument

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate.

10-31
06:01

Teens Are Being Burned Alive in Gaza, Often with U.S. Weapons

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In the early hours of Monday, October 14th, Israel bombed the crowded makeshift camp, setting many tents on fire. The tent that Sha’ban al-Dalou built with his own hands became his funeral pyre.

10-24
06:20

Medical Workers Demand a Ceasefire in Gaza

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The scale of the violence that Israel, with full US support, is raining on Palestinians in Gaza is without precedent, and is widely considered an ongoing genocide.

10-17
06:16

The Message from Helene and Milton: the Climate Crisis is Real

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan How many more Helenes and Miltons, how many more preventable climate deaths and wasted billions of dollars will it take before the United States rises to the challenge and genuinely confronts this devastating climate emergency?

10-10
06:15

Israel Cannot Bomb Its Way to Peace

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan One year after Hamas’s attack on Israel, the bombardment, military assault and intense siege of the Gaza Strip continues.

10-03
06:28

Hell Is Breaking Loose in Lebanon. Biden Could Stop It

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan While world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Israel ramps up its assault on Lebanon, killing hundreds of civilians and forcibly displacing an estimated half million people as it prepares for a likely ground invasion.

09-26
06:21

Trump and Vance Fan Flames of Hatred in Springfield, Ohio

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Since Trump and Vance launched their campaign against Springfield’s Haitian residents, the city has experienced a wave of bomb threats.

09-19
06:39

Climate Activists in the Crosshairs While the Planet Burns

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The planet is at a tipping point, on the verge of climate destruction accelerated by irreversible feedback loops. Climate activists are increasingly engaging in non-violent direct action, demanding change.

09-12
05:51

First Step in Stopping School Shootings: Ban Assault Weapons

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death.

09-05
05:37

Republicans Attempt to Rig Election for Trump

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The “Party of Lincoln,” as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for.

08-29
06:45

A Sit-in for Peace in Gaza at the Democratic National Convention

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the Uncommitted delegates continue the painful task of counting the bodies of friends and relatives in Gaza, Democratic party leaders at the DNC are counting votes.

08-22
05:24

Billionaire Politics: A Danger to Democracy

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Elon Musk’s friendly “interview” with Donald Trump highlights the increasing power of billionaires attempting to hijack the political process for their own ends.

08-15
05:36

"Welcome to Hell": U.S. Silence on Israel's Network of Torture Camps

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan All eyes are on Vice President Harris, as demands for a Gaza ceasefire continue and Israel is accused of running “torture camps” and video has emerged of soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner.

08-08
06:44

Justice for Sonya Massey, Say Her Name

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Sonya Massey must now be added to a too-long list of Black women killed by police: Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson. Throughout the next three months of this year’s election, let’s remember to say their names.

08-01
06:03

Kamala Harris Faces the Racism and Sexism of the Trump/Vance Campaign

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Racism and sexism are not only toxic, but can kill. They have no place in our political discourse, and no place on the presidential campaign trail.

07-25
06:22

At RNC in Milwaukee, Republicans Unify...Against Marginalized Communities

On stage at the Fiserv Forum, MAGA Republican loyalists spoke from the podium, heaping praise on their party’s unquestioned leader, Donald Trump, just days after an attempted assassination that left him with a bloodied right ear over which he now wears a white bandage.

07-18
06:38

In Gaza, Playing “the Beautiful Game” Amidst Slaughter

As the Olympic Torch arrives in Paris later this month to open the Summer Games, let’s remember the flames outside the soccer pitch at the Al-Awda School in Khan Younis, and the children playing the Beautiful Game in Gaza, amidst the ugliness of war.

07-11
06:35

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