Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Six-hundred days on, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest point yet,” reads the latest statement by the UN's Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Columbia University held graduation this week, with thousands receiving their degrees. Some students were missing, though, casting a pall over the proceedings.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Newark has a long history of resistance to oppression, as President Trump and his enablers are about to find out.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Police violence is a persistent problem in the United States, disproportionately victimizing people of color, especially Black men.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan May Day, May 1st, has long been a day of protest, and this year is no exception. Protests are happening across the country, against President Donald Trump and his attack on the social safety net, on immigrants, on people of color and the LGBTQ community, and more.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan A free press is a bulwark against authoritarianism. Trump knows this, which is why we all need to support and defend independent journalism, while we still can.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Republican politicians know that to promote the elimination or even the privatization of Social Security is political suicide. Instead, the DOGE plan seems to be to render it dysfunctional, by shuttering field offices, massively reducing its workforce, thus abandoning the most vulnerable among us, who have the least political influence. This is what Trump and Musk clearly intend. The urgent work now is to stop them.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan There is a force more powerful than authoritarians: the power of people, organized in solidarity and resistance.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state may be you.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Violence against journalists is not new. Israel's targeting of journalists in Gaza, however, has taken this violence to a new, unprecedented scale.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The detentions, deportations and disappearances are stoking fear in the immigrant community, which is certainly one of its main objectives. One who remains undaunted is Jeanette Vizguerra.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Several lawsuits have successfully blocked, at least temporarily, some of Trump's anti-trans executive orders. But while the court battles proceed, the lives of transgender people are still at risk.

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).

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If Elon Musk is serious about cutting costs, he should take a hard look at Guantánamo Bay.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the US drifts closer to authoritarianism, the words of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose collective remain vital: We will not be silent.

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.

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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Years of organizing, educating and empowering people to defend themselves from racist immigration policies are showing results.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The bigotry embedded in Trump's plans to “Make America Great Again” is stark–purging people of color and LGBTQIA people, not only from employment in the federal government, but from public life.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature's destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The time has come to shutter the prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where men are held far offshore the mainland U.S. in an extrajudicial hell.

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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In one of only a handful of times in the last century, Christmas this year coincides with the first day of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. In that spirit, let there be light. Let there be life. There must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, now.

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.”

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As Syrians rebuild their society, they will need global solidarity and grassroots support, to ensure that their new state does not fail.

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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Amnesty International has campaigned for Peltier's release for decades. The group recently sent a letter to President Biden, reiterating their demand.

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.

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.