Breaking The Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman

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.

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.