Amy Goodman

2 days ago | truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Samantha Borek |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González

As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen.

4 days ago | truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González

Protests are unfolding as agents arrest undocumented people at courthouses, workplaces and on the way to school. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! Published June 3, 2025 Protests over ICE raids are continuing across the United States as agents arrest immigrants at courthouses, from their workplaces, on the way to school and more.

4 days ago | thedailyreview.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan“Six-hundred days on, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest point yet,” reads the latest statement by the U.N.’s Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which coordinates Palestinian aid. Israel has kept Gaza under a near total siege for three months, preventing food, medicine, fuel and clean water from reaching Gaza’s more than 2 million residents.

5 days ago | alternet.org | Amy Goodman

President Donald Trump has signed a wave of pardons for people convicted of fraud, including a Virginia sheriff who took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and a reality TV couple who evaded millions in taxes after defrauding banks. Last month, Trump pardoned a Florida healthcare executive convicted of tax evasion for stealing nearly $11 million in payroll taxes from the paychecks of doctors and nurses.

5 days ago | alternet.org | Amy Goodman

We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.”“During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities on the left.