Breaking The Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman
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Sinopsis
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 Moynihans 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 Moynihans 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.
Episodios
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Juneteenth and July 4th Highlight America's Historic Contradictions
20/06/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Two consecutive federal holidays – Juneteenth and Independence Day – highlight the sweep of American history, marking the birth of the nation on July 4th and, on June 19th, the liberation of the last group of enslaved people in the US, at the end of a devastating civil war.
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Daylight Comes to Chiquita's Use of Colombian Death Squads
13/06/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thanks to new federal jury verdict, some daylight has come to the violent practices behind the blue sticker on each bunch of Chiquita bananas.
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A Gaza Twin’s Desperate Fight for Survival
06/06/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Helmi Hirez has much to offer the world. The world owes him a permanent ceasefire, an end to the weapons flow to the Israeli military and to the occupation that has dominated his young life.
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The Global Demand for a Gaza Ceasefire Grows, Leaving Biden Behind
30/05/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Biden and his enablers have the power to end Israel’s war on Gaza and the slaughter of civilians there. Their decision not to is criminal.
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Breaking Ranks with Biden, on Gaza
23/05/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Biden and his inner circle are increasingly isolated in their unflinching support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Unlike Palestinians in Gaza, though, Biden has a way out: Permanent ceasefire, now.
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The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
16/05/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession and forced displacement Palestinians suffered in the years up to and including 1948.
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What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
09/05/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them?
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Campus Protests, Press Freedom and Palestine
02/05/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
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Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement
25/04/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “What starts here changes the world,” is quickly becoming, for thousands of students across the country, a call to action, demanding peace in Gaza.
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USC Silences Its Valedictorian. She Vows to Fight On
18/04/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, USC decided to abandon one its most prominent young women students, its 2024 valedictorian Asna Tabassum, buckling under a wave of neo-McCarthyism sweeping campuses nationwide.
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Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Ban is Not So Great
11/04/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan 1864 was a pivotal year in U.S. history, as the tide shifted in the civil war, leading to Union victory and the abolition of slavery the following year. Yes, the nation made faltering progress then, but it was by no means “great.” For true greatness, we can only look to the future.
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Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
04/04/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children.
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A Bridge Collapse Exposes Seemingly Unbridgeable Divides
28/03/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Immigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase.
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Aching Rafah: Gaza, 21 Years After the Killing of Rachel Corrie
21/03/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Rachel Corrie died on March 16th, 2003. She went to Gaza to commit her idealism to action, in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. What she saw transformed her.
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
14/03/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan US intervention in Haiti, Honduras and other countries is one of the principal drivers of people seeking asylum in the United States, as they flee violence, poverty and persecution at home.
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Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
07/03/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan While the US has been airdropping food, it has also been delivering bombs to Israel to be dropped on Gaza as well.
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Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
29/02/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances.
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Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza's Hospitals
22/02/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Targeting hospitals, as Israel is doing in Gaza with US complicity, is a war crime.
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Australia Demands US, UK Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange
15/02/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The US should listen to the concerns of Australia, its ally–and drop the case.
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Biden's Support for Israel's War May Cost Him Reelection
08/02/2024By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If Biden wants to stop hemorrhaging electoral support, all he needs to do is stop the hemorrhaging of actual Palestinian blood in Gaza, stop arming Israel, and demand an immediate ceasefire.