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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 i ...
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWhat if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring. Student organizers have issued demands ranging from university divestment from compa…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWorld Press Freedom Day comes this week amidst Gaza solidarity protests on campuses across the United States. In a democratic society, protests and the press are intimately linked. Desperate to clamp down on the growing movement, university administrations and police are increasingly restricting or outright banning th…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads an encouraging sign that greets students at the University of Texas–Austin. The university’s actions tell a different story. A photo shared on social media this week shows the sign in front of a row of state troopers in riot ge…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanAt the center of the University of Southern California’s campus in Los Angeles stands a statue of Hecuba, queen of ancient Troy. “A statue celebrating the women of Troy,” says USC’s website. “Hecuba would defend her children and her city with fierce passion and loyalty. She would urge the Trojans to fight on, even whe…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“When exactly was America great?” is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer: 1864. Put aside that the nation was embroiled in a civil war, millions of people were brutally enslaved, native popul…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIsrael 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. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared, on October 9th, “There will be no electricity, no fo…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanImmigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase. Immigrants, including children, work in fields and factories, driving our economy. A group of immigrant men were working late last Tuesday night, filling potholes on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. At 1:27 am, the Dali, a m…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“oh rafah. aching rafah. aching of refugees aching of tumbled houses bicycles severed from tank-warped tires and aching of bullet riddled homes…”So begins a poem written by Rachel Corrie, in Gaza in 2003, just weeks before she was crushed to death by a US-made Israeli military bulldozer, while she and others from the …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanHaiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking. He faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanDramatic images of US airdrops of food into the Gaza Strip made headlines in recent days. The US Air Force and the Royal Jordanian Air Force dropped over 70,000 meals in total along the Gaza coastline and in northern Gaza, amounting to a fraction of what is needed on an ongoing basis there. While the US has been airdr…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances. Johan Galtung died on February 17th at the age of 93. The Norwegian sociologist was known as the father of peace studies, and spent his life researching conflicts and fostering dialog in pursuit of peace.Aaron Bushn…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“Gaza has become a death zone,” says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hosp…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during Prime Minister’s Questions on February 15th, “This thing cannot just go on and on and on, indefinitely.” The Prime Minister was addressing an action he took a day earlier, on Valentine’s Day. No, not his marriage proposal to his partner, Jodie Haydon (she said yes…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIsrael’s bombardment of Gaza continues, as Palestinians trapped there share videos of their own annihilation in real time. The estimated death toll in Gaza since Israel’s military assault began on October 7th has exceeded 28,000, including 11,500 children, with an additional 8,000 people missing and presumed dead, bur…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanOn Tuesday, President Biden addressed the press while boarding the presidential helicopter, saying, “I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That’s not what I’m looking for.” But a wider war is exactly what Biden is inflaming, with unreserved support for Israel’s ongoing annihilation of Gaza and the 2.3 …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanCountless cases lay bare the raw injustice of the death penalty in the United States. The case of Richard Glossip is certainly one of them. He’s been on Oklahoma’s death row since 1998, facing nine separate execution dates. He’s been given his final meal three times, and, in 2015, was saved from death just hours befor…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIn 1948, the newly-formed United Nations marked the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Genocide Convention was a response to WWII’s Holocaust, when six million European Jews where murdered by Nazi Germany. Raphae…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIf you’re flying on a Boeing, buckle up.Passengers aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday, January 5th were lucky their seat belts were snug when an entire side panel blew out, leaving a gaping hole in the fuselage as the plane passed 16,000 feet after taking off from Portland, Oregon. The rapid cabin depressuri…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanBishop William Barber is taking a stand, after being denied a place to sit down. It happened on the day after Christmas.Barber is a renowned civil rights activist, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, a theologian and preacher. He’s a Yale Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanChristmas was canceled in Bethlehem, the occupied West Bank city where historians and Christians alike believe Jesus was born. Mayor Hanna Hanania proclaimed, “For the first time, the Christmas tree will not be placed in Bethlehem, the streets of Bethlehem will not be lit.” Religious leaders agreed, limiting their Chr…
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