Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.