By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan We’ve been writing this weekly column for close to 20 years. This one will be our last syndicated by King Features. We have aspired to stay true to this column’s original intent, to “break the sound barrier,” highlighting voices excluded from the corporate media, covering the movements that drive change, and holding to account those in power, regardless of political party. One goal, in addition to serving our readers and the newspapers that have long carried t...
Dec 31, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, we learned another lesson about how corporate media consolidation corrupts democracy. A story on President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of shackled Venezuelan men to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison was to air on CBS’s flagship news magazine, “60 Minutes.” The segment was spiked by CBS’ newly-installed Editor-in Chief Bari Weiss. This censorship exposes a web of conflicts of interest, and demonstrates, yet again, that democracy depends on a s...
Dec 24, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan On Saturday afternoon, December 13th, a gunman entered a Brown University classroom in Providence, Rhode Island, and started firing. He killed two students and injured nine, then escaped. By Thursday night, authorities had located the body of the shooter in New Hampshire, dead by apparent suicide. According to the Gun Violence Archive, this was the 389th mass shooting in the United States in 2025. At least four more have occurred since. Gun violence is not uni...
Dec 18, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus boycott, launched the career of a young preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr., and changed the world. Remarkable events like the boycott have long been celebrated in this country as seminal moments achieved through struggle, woven into the fabric of our collective...
Dec 11, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. missile strikes on September 2. The first strike killed most of the 11 people on board. The Washington Post, citing multiple unnamed sources, reported two people survived, and the officer in charge of the operation called a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s order to “kill everybody.” These actions, along with at least...
Dec 04, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on November 22nd. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a roadmap away from fossil fuels in the summit’s concluding agreement. COP30 is the 30th “Conference of Parties” to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change. Over 190 nations have spent a decade negotiating the implementation of the 2015 Paris Climat...
Nov 26, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan BELÉM, BRAZIL–The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to the tropical city of Belém, Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon, carrying their message that the rainforest is at a tipping point, but can still be saved. Their focus is on COP30, the 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C...
Nov 20, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn in to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, after being blocked from her duly-elected role by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson for 50 days, denying Congressional representation to Grijalva’s 800,000-plus constituents in southern Arizona. Johnson, it seemed, was far more interested in serving the interests of just one man, namely, President Donald Trump. By refusing to swear in Grijalva, Johnson was able to block ...
Nov 13, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Zohran Mamdani made history, winning the race to be the next mayor of New York City. The Democratic socialist is the first Muslim and the first person of South Asian descent elected to lead the largest city in the United States. At 34 years old, he is the youngest elected to the office in over a century. His meteoric rise from a little-known state assemblymember to his stunning upset on Tuesday has sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party. With over 100,00...
Nov 06, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the United States government shutdown marks its fifth week, approaching the record 35-day shutdown set back in 2018-19, unleashing a worsening cascade of hardship, one explanation for the shutdown comes from long-time Republican strategist turned Never Trump activist Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project, speaking on the Democracy Now! news hour last week: “Say what you will about Jeffrey Epstein. The guy’s dead, and he can still shut down Congress.” What d...
Oct 30, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In the 1979 slasher film, “When A Stranger Calls,” a babysitter getting threatening phone calls is alerted by the police, “We’ve traced the call. It’s coming from within the house.” Well, life is imitating art in Washington, DC, as the White House itself is under attack – in this case, too, the perpetrator is inside the house. President Donald Trump abruptly ordered the demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House. Built by enslaved workers during the...
Oct 23, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The bombing has stopped in Gaza. Palestinians there, still waiting for the food and other aid to reach them, are now sifting through the rubble of their homes seeking their dead. In Israel, twenty families reunited with their loved ones who endured two years of captivity in Gaza following October 7th, 2023. Their pain and joy received blanket coverage in the US, and rightly so. But the ongoing suffering of the Palestinians rarely appears in the mainstream US m...
Oct 16, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Two plus two equals five.” That this is false would be apparent to most first graders. Yet this is, in effect, what President Donald Trump wants us to believe when he tells us that the United States is in the midst of an “insurrection” and that there is an “invasion from within” that requires US troops to quell. Of course, there is no insurrection or invasion. But Trump is using a classic tool of totalitarians, demanding absolute obedience, even including the...
Oct 09, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston is a Reagan appointee who has been on the bench for 47 years. Last June, he received a threatening postcard. Handwritten in all caps, it read, “TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…WHAT DO YOU HAVE?” The date is significant: June 19th was just five days after Trump’s ostentatious Washington, DC military parade, part of the birthday party Trump threw for himself and the US Army, at public expense. The parade wa...
Oct 02, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Let’s be clear, statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not a reward.” So said United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, addressing the General Assembly’s meeting on the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. This week, ten more nations have recognized the Palestinian State: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Malta, Monaco, and Andorra. Over 150 countries now recognize Palestine as a state, including 14 ...
Sep 25, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Follow the money.” That is one of the most legendary lines ever from a Hollywood movie, spoken by Hal Holbrook in the role of “Deep Throat,” a Nixon administration whistleblower in “All the President’s Men.” Deep Throat secretly met with reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, advising Woodward as he investigated the Watergate scandal with Post colleague Carl Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein exposed a web of corruption in the White House that ultimatel...
Sep 18, 2025
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. President Donald Trump could and should use his enormous platform to calm tempers. Instead, he immediately blamed, without evidence, the “radical left” for Kirk’s murder. This came ...
Sep 11, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump is on a losing streak this week. Just look at the latest judicial decisions challenging his policies, from mass deportations to tariffs to his troop deployments to US cities. The courts are proving to be a significant check on Trump’s thirst for absolute power. These cases illustrate the point: Immigration Over Labor Day weekend, ICE attempted to begin deporting up to 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children. In the dead of night, the first children ...
Sep 04, 2025
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. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in US history, killing over 1,800 people, mostly poor residents of New Orleans’ historic Black neighborhoods. Katrina was also the US’ costliest natural disaster, causing over $160 billion in damage. Katrina’s deadly waters long ago receded, but in their wake...
Aug 28, 2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian Institution, the world-renowned center of learning and culture based in Washington, DC. Trump wrote on his social media platform, “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was.” “How bad slavery was.” It ...
Aug 21, 2025
