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Breaking 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.

Episodes

Courts Just Say No to Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grabs

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Several key decisions have halted or delayed some of Trump’s attempts to demolish much of the U.S. government, aided by his largest campaign donor, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and by Vice President JD Vance, who argues that court orders are optional (they’re not).

Mar 06, 2025

Trump, Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President Donald Trump has launched a power grab through executive orders and proclamations.

Feb 13, 2025

Trump Proposes Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to Build "Riviera of the Middle East"

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan More than 75 years after the Nakba, when many Palestinians were driven from their homes into Gaza, and for more than a half-century, since 1967, of direct Israeli occupation, siege and its repeated assaults, Palestinians in Gaza still demand control of their land.

Feb 06, 2025

Wicked, The Wizard of Oz, and the Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan With just weeks from Donald Trump’s inauguration to his second term as president, and with a timely focus on challenging authority ushered in by the hit movie “Wicked,” now is a good time to recall the incredible work and lyrical lessons of Yip Harburg, the man who put the rainbow in the Wizard of Oz.

Jan 02, 2025

Human Rights Watch: Israel's Extermination and Genocide in Gaza

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan On Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a damning, 184-page report on this manufactured water crisis, titled, “Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water.”

Dec 19, 2024

Biden's Pardon Power and the Last Federal Pot Prisoners

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan With the simple stroke of a pen, President Biden saved his son from a terrible ordeal. Before he leaves office, he should extend the same compassion to thousands of people in federal prison, victims of the so-called war on drugs.

Dec 05, 2024

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?

Nov 21, 2024

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.

Nov 14, 2024