Breaking The Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Authoritarianism can happen here. The question is, will we let it?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free but his prosecution under the US Espionage Act has raised alarms globally over its potentially devastating impact on journalism.

By 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.

By 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.

By 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.

By 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.

By 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.

By 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them?