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
Breaking the Sound Barrier
12/31/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Democracy Now! turns 30 in February. Carried on over 1,500 stations around the globe, and with a growing audience of millions across multiple digital platforms, the program has become a leader in the burgeoning non-profit news space, as we collectively grapple with a multipronged crisis in journalism.
Duration:00:06:32
CBS 60 Minutes Censorship Rings Another Alarm, Warning of Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy
12/24/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan News organizations cannot function under corrupt corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators rise.
Duration:00:05:55
For Some Brown University Students, This Was Their Second School Shooting
12/18/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Gun violence is not unique to this country, but its sheer magnitude and frequency here is without equal.
Duration:00:06:20
From Rosa Parks to National Parks: Trump's Racism and Bigotry Demand Resistance
12/11/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus boycott, launched the career of a young preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr., and changed the world.
Duration:00:06:01
Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth's Dept. of War (Crimes)
12/4/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. strikes on September 2. These actions, along with at least 20 additional lethal boat strikes that followed, are widely considered by legal and military experts to be war crimes.
Duration:00:06:34
COP30's Three F-Words: Failure on Fossil Fuels
11/26/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a roadmap away from fossil fuels in the summit’s concluding agreement
Duration:00:05:40
COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership
11/20/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to the tropical city of Belém, Brazil, carrying their message that the rainforest is at a tipping point, but can still be saved.
Duration:00:05:53
Adelante, Adelita
11/13/2025
House Speaker Johnson’s arbitrary and hostile refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva for close to two months was an absolute disservice, not only to her and her constituents, but to our democracy. As fears rise of Trump’s authoritarian actions, the people of southern Arizona now have a voice in Congress. Adelante, Adelita.
Duration:00:05:15
Zohran Mamdani, Eugene V. Debs, and the Dawn
11/6/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Eugene V. Debs was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. His address to the court at sentencing is considered one of the most eloquent speeches in modern English. That’s what Mamdani quoted at his victory rally.
Duration:00:06:32
Speaker Johnson: Seat Adelita Grijalva Now!
10/30/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As Trump exerts maximum pressure to block the release of the Epstein files, Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva’s voice and vote is needed in Congress, now.
Duration:00:05:46
Trump's Demolition, from the East Wing to Western Democracy
10/23/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Trump and his enablers were openly disturbed by the mass protests across the United States on “No Kings Day” that said with incredible creativity and in a consistently peaceful and nonviolent way, essentially what the framers of the Constitution wrote, only a few years before enslaved workers laid that cornerstone of the White House: “No kings, no monarchs.”
Duration:00:05:41
Too Many Palestinian (and Certain Israeli) Voices Are Excluded from the U.S. Media
10/16/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan We need a media that reflects the full range of voices. Without that, peace, in the Middle East and elsewhere, will remain beyond reach.
Duration:00:06:31
Trump's Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
10/9/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.
Duration:00:06:09
Trump's Attack on Free Speech and One Federal Judge's Fiery Rebuke
10/2/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week Judge William Young excoriated the Trump administration’s attack on free speech. “This case — perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court — squarely presents the issue of whether non-citizens lawfully present here in [the] United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us,” he wrote. “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.'”
Duration:00:05:39
Palestinian Statehood and the Race to Stop the Gaza Genocide
9/25/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, 10 more nations recognized Palestinian statehood. Over 150 countries now recognize Palestine as a state, including 14 of 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. The only outlier: the United States, which consistently wields its Security Council veto power in defense of Israel.
Duration:00:03:47
Robert Redford: The Actor and the Activist
9/18/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Renowned for roles in films like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Robert Redford won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People” and numerous other awards over his storied career. But what mattered most to him was independent film.
Duration:00:05:48
Charlie Kirk, Col. Kurtz, and Donald Trump's Heart of Darkness
9/11/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country and around the world, not only through its raw violence, with a single, deadly sniper shot, but as a hallmark of worsening political divisions wracking the United States.
Duration:00:05:38
Donald Trump's Losing Streak
9/4/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The courts are playing a central role in opposing the lawless Trump administration, but the core of the resistance are people–people at every level organized in opposition, defending democracy.
Duration:00:05:33
20 Years Later, the Lessons of Hurricane Katrina Go Unheeded
8/28/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005, breaching New Orleans’ protective levees, unleashing unprecedented destruction.
Duration:00:05:50
On The Smithsonian and Slavery: Trump's Whitewashing of History
8/21/2025
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Yes, slavery was bad, President Trump. It was evil and remains a stain on this country. We should never stop talking about it.
Duration:00:06:04