Amy Goodman

3 days ago | times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

On May 3, 2024, Roger Fortson was on a video call with his girlfriend when a knock came at his door. Fortson, a 23-year-old Black man, was a Senior Airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Florida. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran had responded to a domestic disturbance call at the apartment complex. […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: May 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM PDT

2 weeks ago | times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

April 15 was tax day in the United States, when most of us — the wealthiest excepted — pay our share of taxes to fund the government. This includes three key pillars of the social safety net: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. These three, like almost every federal government department, are being gutted by President Trump and his main funder, a man often called “the co-president,” billionaire Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

3 weeks ago | times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

In March 2023, Donald Trump addressed CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference: “In 2016 I declared, I am your voice. Today, I add I am your warrior. I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”Since taking office, Trump has kept up his promise to unleash retribution, like his promised mass deportations and his constant demonization of immigrants. Take, for example, the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who left El Salvador at the age of 16.

1 month ago | times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.”These words, written by 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who worked for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, were posted online by friends after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on March 24. That same day, Hossam posted on Instagram that Mohammed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today TV, was killed by an Israeli airstrike. An hour later, Hossam himself was killed.

1 month ago | times-standard.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

Jeanette Vizguerra understands all too well the injustice inherent in the U.S. immigration system. Last Monday, she was arrested outside her workplace in Colorado by ICE agents who were reportedly “laughing in her face” as they took her to the Aurora ICE jail, run by the for-profit GEO Group. As this goes to print, she […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: March 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM PDT