Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
News & Politics Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.democracynow.org/
Episodes
The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
5/16/2024
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.
Duration:00:04:58
What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
5/9/2024
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?
Duration:00:06:01
Campus Protests, Press Freedom and Palestine
5/2/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
Duration:00:05:36
Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement
4/25/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “What starts here changes the world,” is quickly becoming, for thousands of students across the country, a call to action, demanding peace in Gaza.
Duration:00:06:00
USC Silences Its Valedictorian. She Vows to Fight On
4/18/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, USC decided to abandon one its most prominent young women students, its 2024 valedictorian Asna Tabassum, buckling under a wave of neo-McCarthyism sweeping campuses nationwide.
Duration:00:07:15
Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Ban is Not So Great
4/11/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan 1864 was a pivotal year in U.S. history, as the tide shifted in the civil war, leading to Union victory and the abolition of slavery the following year. Yes, the nation made faltering progress then, but it was by no means “great.” For true greatness, we can only look to the future.
Duration:00:05:48
Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
4/4/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children.
Duration:00:06:07
A Bridge Collapse Exposes Seemingly Unbridgeable Divides
3/28/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Immigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase.
Duration:00:06:25
Aching Rafah: Gaza, 21 Years After the Killing of Rachel Corrie
3/21/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Rachel Corrie died on March 16th, 2003. She went to Gaza to commit her idealism to action, in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. What she saw transformed her.
Duration:00:06:42
Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
3/14/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan US intervention in Haiti, Honduras and other countries is one of the principal drivers of people seeking asylum in the United States, as they flee violence, poverty and persecution at home.
Duration:00:06:10
Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
3/7/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan While the US has been airdropping food, it has also been delivering bombs to Israel to be dropped on Gaza as well.
Duration:00:05:56
Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
2/29/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances.
Duration:00:05:22
Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza's Hospitals
2/22/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Targeting hospitals, as Israel is doing in Gaza with US complicity, is a war crime.
Duration:00:06:39
Australia Demands US, UK Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange
2/15/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The US should listen to the concerns of Australia, its ally–and drop the case.
Duration:00:05:39
Biden's Support for Israel's War May Cost Him Reelection
2/8/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If Biden wants to stop hemorrhaging electoral support, all he needs to do is stop the hemorrhaging of actual Palestinian blood in Gaza, stop arming Israel, and demand an immediate ceasefire.
Duration:00:06:21
To Avoid a Wider War, Ceasefire Now in Gaza
2/1/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Demands for an immediate ceasefire are growing, and, despite promises of indefinite war from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States, as Israel’s principal weapons provider, could shut down the bombardment with one phone call.
Duration:00:06:19
The Road to Death Penalty Abolition Runs Through Alabama and Oklahoma
1/25/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Grotesque abuses of state power as in Oklahoma and Alabama are what led the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Henry Blackmun to conclude, in a dissenting opinion in a 1994 case, “the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake.”
Duration:00:06:32
Israel Charged with Genocide in Gaza
1/18/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If President Biden demanded an end to the bombardment of Gaza, it would stop. Now is the time to heed the global calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Duration:00:06:25
The Nuts and Bolts of Boeing's Corporate Crime
1/11/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Boeing needs to be prosecuted, to show without a doubt that corporate crime doesn’t pay.
Duration:00:06:23
Accommodate Me Caringly: Bishop Barber Confronts ADA Discrimination at AMC Theaters
1/4/2024
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Bishop William Barber is taking a stand, after being denied a place to sit down. It happened on the day after Christmas.
Duration:00:06:14