Breaking the Sound Barrier

Amy Goodman

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781608460076
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Ensayos en política y relaciones internacionales

" Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis."— Noam Chomsky

"You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman 's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power."—From the Preface by Bill Moyers

Amy Goodman, award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program Democracy Now!, breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects—the "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"—this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said "No" to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman's reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power that independent journalism can play in the struggle for a better world, one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities.

Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now! airing on nearly 800 stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.". Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.

INDEX

Passim” (literally “scattered”) indicates intermittent discussion of a topic over a cluster of pages.

ABC News

ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union

AIG

APA. See American Psychological Association (APA)

AT&T

AUC. See Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia

Abbey, Edward

abortion providers: murder of

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Abu Ghraib

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

Academy Award-winning films

ACORN

Addington, David

advertising, political. See political advertising

Aero Contractors

Afghanistan

Estonia and

African Americans

Cambridge, Massachusetts

disenfranchisement

New Orleans

Obama election and

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Savannah, Georgia

social conditions

agribusinesses

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

AIPAC. See American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

Al-Qaida

Al-Jazeera

U.S. bombing of

Alaska

Alexis, Jacque-Edouard

Algeria

Alien Tort Claims Act

Alleg, Henri

Allende, Salvador

Alliance for Better Campaigns

Allison, Linda

Almendares, Juan

Altria Group

American Chemical Council

American Civil Liberties Union

American College of Physicians

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

American Medical Association

American Patrol

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association (APA)

anarchists

Angell, Marcia

antiwar movement: Lennon and Ono and

antiwar views: absence on television

apartheid: Middle East

Appeal for Redress

Arab-Israeli conflict. See Israel-Palestine conflict

Arar, Maher

Archer Daniels Midland

arms exports: Sweden

arms smuggling

Army of God

Army Times

Arredondo, Carlos

arrest of African-American author

arrest of elected national leader

arrest of journalists

arrest of Muslim Americans

arrest of protesters

Arrigo, Jean Maria

assassinations

Malcolm X, passim

“astroturf” organizations

attorneys

firing of

New Mexico

torture and

Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia

automobile industry

Avnery, Uri

Ayyoub, Tareq

Aznar, Jose Maria

BAE Systems

BKSH & Associates

BLM. See Bureau of Land Management

Babar, Junaid

Bachelet, Michelle

Bagram Air Base

Bailey, D’Army

bailouts. See government bailouts

Baker, Dean

Baker, James

Baldwin, Chuck

Baldwin, James

Baltic states

Banadex

banana workers’ strikes

bankruptcies

banks and banking

nationalization

Banks, Morgan

Banzer, Hugo

Barakzai, Shukria

Barr, Bob

Bashmilah, Mohammed Farag Ahmad

Bass, Jack

Bassiouni, Cherif

Batiste, John

Baucus, Max

Beacon Press

Bear Stearns

Bedier, Ahmed

Beeman, P...

Table of contents

• Praise
• Title Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• WAR
• CLIMATE CHANGE
• TORTURE
• HEALTH CARE
• GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN
• MEDIA
• NEWS FROM THE UNREPORTED WORLD
• GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM
• ELECTIONS
• OBAMA
• LUMINARIES
• Acknowledgements
• INDEX
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• ABOUT DEMOCRACY NOW!
• ABOUT HAYMARKET BOOKS
• ALSO FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS
• Copyright Page