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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thehumanist.com | Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman received the Humanist of the Year Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. The award recognizes a person of national and international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the human condition.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thehumanist.com | Amy Goodman |Fish Stark |Karen Hao |Ted Chiang
Archive Amy Goodman received the Humanist of the Year Award at the American Humanist Association’s 83rd Annual Conference, held virtually in September 2024. The award recognizes a person of national and international reputation who, through the application of humanist values, has made a significant contribution to the human condition. Amy Goodman...
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
portside.org | Amy Goodman |Nermeen Shaikh
Democrats Abandoned the Working Class: Robin D.G. Kelley on Trump’s Win & Need for Class Solidarity Published November 10, 2024 We speak with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the roots of Donald Trump’s election victory and the decline of Democratic support among many of the party’s traditional constituencies. Kelley says he agrees with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who said Democrats have “abandoned” working-class people.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
portside.org | Amy Goodman
Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights Published November 9, 2024 “Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is it that those issues weren’t more up front?” We speak to Bishop William Barber about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s failed election campaigns, Donald Trump’s election as president and the urgent need to unite the poor and working class.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Israel struck just outside a school in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 29 people sheltering there and injuring dozens more. The moment the bomb exploded was captured on video by someone recording a youth soccer game in the Al-Awda school courtyard. The soccer ball was midair when the bomb exploded. The New York Times, using Reuters footage, identified the munition as a 250-pound GBU-39 guided bomb, manufactured by Boeing and supplied by the United States.
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May 30, 2024 | 
portside.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
“The North Needs To Learn From the South”: Mexico Poised To Elect First Woman President Published May 29, 2024 In Mexico, millions of voters are poised to elect the first woman president in the country’s history when they cast their ballots on Sunday. Voters will be choosing between front-runners Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, and Xóchitl Gálvez, a former senator; and a third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, who is trailing further behind in the polls.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
peoplestribune.org | Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!: Search and rescue teams have recovered the bodies of two men from the Patapsco River following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, but four others remain missing and are presumed dead. All six victims were immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, part of a road crew that was filling potholes on the bridge when a cargo ship ran into one of the bridge supports, causing the entire structure to drop into the water.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
timeswv.com | 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 U.S.-made Israeli military bulldozer, while she and others from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) nonviolently resisted the demolition of yet another Palestinian home.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Dramatic images of U.S. airdrops of food into the Gaza Strip made headlines in recent days. The U.S. 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 U.S. has been airdropping food, it has also been delivering bombs to Israel to be dropped on Gaza as well.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
arcamax.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan
Countless 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 before his execution only after prison officials admitted they had ordered the wrong drug for their lethal cocktail.
