Breaking the Sound Barrier

by Goodman, Amy

• ISBN13: 9781931859998
• ISBN10: 193185999X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

" 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 .

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Beyond The Nine-Second Sound Bite	p. 1
War
The Art of War and Deception	p. 7
Resistance To War Cannot Be Jailed	p. 10
Clinton To Antiwar Voters: Bring 'EM On	p. 13
Carlos Arredondo Exploding into Action	p. 16
Hang Up on War: Claim Your Telephone Tax Rebate	p. 19
War And Censorship at Wilton High School	p. 22
The Time Is Right for New Pentagon Papers	p. 25
The Uncounted Casualties of War	p. 28
Winter Soldier Marches Again	p. 31
Body Of War	p. 34
Whistle-Blower Points Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel	p. 36
Threats, Lies, And Audiotape	p. 39
Invasion Of the Sea-Smurfs	p. 42
Obama's Afghan Trap	p. 45
Obama's Coalition Of the Unwilling	p. 48
Climate Change
Global Warring, Global Warming, Global Warning	p. 53
Mckibben: Hold Politicians' Feet to the Fire	p. 56
From Oil Wars to Water Wars	p. 59
Weather Reports Are Missing the Story	p. 62
Don't Drink The Nuclear Kool-Aid	p. 65
Lessons Of the Exxon Valdez	p. 68
Torture
Rumsfeld's Mount Misery	p. 73
Up To Democrats To Investigate Torture	p. 76
Hypocritical Oath: Psychologists And Torture	p. 79
High School Students Teach the President a Lesson about Torture	p. 82
Psychologists In Denial about Torture	p. 85
A Vote for Mukasey Is a Vote for Torture	p. 88
Surviving A Cia ôBlack Siteö	p. 91
Taxi To the Dark Side	p. 94
A Torture Debate among Healers	p. 97
Torturers should Be Punished	p. 100
Health Care
Sicko: Michael Moore's Prescription For Change	p. 105
Children's Health Care Is A No-Brainer	p. 108
For Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls	p. 111
Nothing To Fear but No Health Care	p. 114
Toxins ôRö Us	p. 117
Put Single-Payer on the Table	p. 120
Baucus' Raucous Caucus	p. 123
Congre$$ Heal Thyself	p. 126
Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried	p. 129
Global Economic Meltdown
Ticker Tape Ain't Spaghetti	p. 133
Wall Street Socialists	p. 136
Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff	p. 139
Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail	p. 142
Produce The Note	p. 145
Media
Death In Oaxaca	p. 151
Shooting The Messenger Is A War Crime	p. 154
Nab-Bing The Election	p. 157
Cbs Silences General Dissent	p. 160
The Dubious Mr. Dobbs	p. 163
The Fcc's Christmas Gift To Big Media	p. 166
The Broadcasters' Big Payday	p. 169
The U.S. War on Journalists	p. 172
Why We Were Falsely Arrested	p. 175
Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary For Dissent	p. 178
Yoo's Views Make Philly News	p. 181
News From the Unreported World
Timor: Bush Has a Chance to Hold Terrorists Accountable	p. 187
Ask Kissinger about Pinochet	p. 190
Chiquita's Slipping Appeal	p. 193
Global Consensus, Not Global Conquest	p. 196
Chevron's Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime's Lifeline	p. 199
Congo: The Invisible War	p. 202
Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not The Regime	p. 205
Chevron, Shell, And the True Cost of Oil	p. 208
The Free Market's Marked Men	p. 211
Undo The Coup	p. 214
Grassroots Activism
From The Bayou To Baghdad: Mission Accomplished?	p. 219
Time Is Running out for Brother and Sister	p. 222
The Orangeburg Massacre	p. 225
Don't Cage Dissent	p. 228
A Tale of Two Nobel Nations	p. 231
Bush and the Monkey Wrench Guy or: One Man's Bid to Aid the Environment	p. 234
Seattle's Lessons for London	p. 237
Disclosure Of ôSecretsö in The '70S Didn't Destroy The Nation	p. 240
Two Standards of Detention	p. 243
Obama's Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups	p. 246
Elections
New Vermont Senator Not Standard Fare	p. 251
Not All Is Debated in Love and War	p. 254
Millions Without a Voice	p. 257
As Goes Vermont	p. 260
Who's Paying For The Conventions?	p. 262
ôIt's A Global Electionö	p. 265
Poverty is The Real Scandal	p. 268
The Party Police	p. 271
Open The Debates	p. 274
Who Gets To Vote?	p. 277
Election Protection	p. 280
Obama
Obama Strikes a Chord with a Disaffected Republican	p. 285
It's Not the Man, It's The Movement	p. 288
Change Big Donors Can Believe In	p. 291
Organizer In Chief	p. 294
President Obama Can Redeem the White House	p. 297
Chevron In the White House	p. 300
A Long Train Ride	p. 303
U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege	p. 306
Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age	p. 309
Luminaries
King's Message: Stop the War, Help the Poor	p. 315
Bang Pots and Pans for Molly Ivins	p. 318
Harry Belafonte; The Lion At 80	p. 321
Howard Z1Nn: Dissent Can Sometimes be The Best Form of Patriotism	p. 324
Clarence Kail1N: Voices From the Spanish Civil War	p. 327
Jimmy Carter: Tear Down That Wall	p. 330
John Lennon: Imagine Peace-A Ray of Light in Dark Times	p. 333
Studs Terkel: Curiosity Didn't Kill This Cat	p. 336
Yuri Kochiyama: Lessons Of Internment	p. 339
Martin Luther King Jr.: where Do We Go From Here?	p. 342
Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage	p. 345
Evo Morales: A View from the South	p. 348
Tutu, Obama, And the Middle East	p. 351
Pete Seeger Carries Us On	p. 354
Dr. George Tiller Didn't Have To Die	p. 357
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: the 21St-Century Color Line	p. 360
Kiefer Sutherland's Grandfather, Tommy Douglas: health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero	p. 362
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Index	p. 367
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