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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 MoynihanOn Inauguration Day, President Trump launched his campaign of mass deportations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested over 5,000 people. ICE raids have been launched with much hype and publicity across the country, including in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThis year, the presidential inauguration took place on the federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Trump fully exploited the opportunity, hijacking King’s memory to advance his agenda. In his inaugural address, Trump took immediate aim at diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. The bigotry embe…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change. The Palisades fire and the Eaton fire have together burned almost 40,000 acres, and damaged or destroyed over 12,000 homes and other buildings, killing a…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe 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. There, men imprisoned for over 20 years, without charge, without trial, and who have been cleared for release, remain caged, virtually forgotten.President …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanPeople around the globe have been watching the blockbuster musical film “Wicked” this holiday season. Based on the Broadway musical, it serves as a backstory to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, casting that film’s villain, the Wicked Witch of the West, in a positive light, as a misunderstood and bullied child who goes…
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“Christ is Still in the Rubble”: No Silent Nights in Gaza this Christmas Amidst Ongoing Israeli Bombardment
By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanChristmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and celebratory. The Church of the Nativity now stands on the site considered to be Jesus’ birthplace, in an animal stable, where the newborn is believ…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“Water is Life” became the anthem of the water protectors protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in and around the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota in 2016. Now, a cruel negative variant of that phrase applies to Gaza: “No water is death.” Two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza have been subjected to a…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe Syrian government has been overthrown and dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow. Assad, and before him, his father Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria with extreme brutality for over 50 years. “Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a va…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” President Joe Biden said in a statement released by The White House on December 1st. “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.” Hunter Biden awaited sentencing for two federal criminal convictions, for lying about his drug …
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWhile many brace for the return of Donald Trump to the White House, let’s remember that until Monday, January 20th, Joe Biden is still president, with all the power that confers. The Constitution grants the president the “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States,” to remedy a crimina…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanBAKU, Azerbaijan – COP29, the 29th United Nations’ “Conference of Parties” to the climate convention, convened this year in Azerbaijan, a small, authoritarian petrostate wedged between Russia and Iran on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The worsening climate catastrophe, fueled by the world’s centuries-long embrace of f…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanPresident-elect Donald Trump’s long history of vilifying immigrants is reaching a dark and likely violent escalation as he nominates to key White House cabinet and staff positions a slew of “America First” extremists and white supremacists. One of Trump’s central campaign pledges was to deport at least 12 million peop…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanDonald 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. Biden spoke to his cabinet and staff Thursday in a Rose Garden address: “Now we have 74 days to finish the term, our term. Let’s make every day count. That’s t…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanDonald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York, the same city where he was recently convicted of 34 felonies. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate. Speaker after speaker worked the crowd by attacking immigrants, Jews, Black people, women and more, directing sp…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanLast February, Sha’ban al-Dalou, a student at Gaza’s al-Azhar University, made an online plea to the world:“Hello from the tent where we reside. I’m Sha’ban Ahmad, 19 years old. I’m a student studying software engineering. In this barbaric starvation war, we have been displaced five times so far. Now we are in Al-Aqsa…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanPalestinians in Gaza have endured more than a year of Israel’s constant bombardment, ground assaults with tanks and troops, sniper fire, displacement and starvation. Armed drones constantly buzz overhead, a reminder that no place in Gaza is safe, and that death could come at any moment. Over 42,000 Gazans have been ki…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan“Helene” and “Milton” could be a favorite aunt and uncle; instead, they have become emblems of the deepening climate disaster as the names of hurricanes that have brought death and destruction. Amidst these two epic storms, an historic election is underway, with one political party actively spewing lies and disinforma…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanRenowned dissident Noam Chomsky wrote in “Fateful Triangle,” his seminal book on Israel/Palestine, “For some time, I’ve been compelled to arrange speaking engagements long in advance. Sometimes a title is requested for a talk scheduled several years ahead. There is, I’ve found, one title that always works: ‘The curren…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWhile 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. One world leader after another takes the podium at the UN, accusing…
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By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanChaos and threats have consumed the small, midwestern city of Springfield, Ohio, and its growing population of legal Haitian immigrants, thanks to venomous, racist lies spouted by Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating …
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