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The award-winning host of the daily international current affairs programme, Democracy Now! breaks through the media's lies, sound-bites and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In a lively and accessible selection of texts, the voices often excluded by the mainstream are given a powerful platform - from courageous American soldiers who oppose the war, to victims of police violence. Amy Goodman proves the powerful that independent journalism can and should play in the struggle for a just, better world for individuals and communities alike.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you prefer to watch football, Dancing on Ice, etc etc then this book is not for you. If, however, you prefer to know how everything is controlled by a small elite group then you will find this book good reading. Anyone studying politics should put this book on their reading list. The format of the book is a series of short pieces which I found useful because I could just keep reading a couple of chapters on the train without worrying where I left off for the journey home.
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Keep Breaking The Sound Barrier
28 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback
There is one line throughout this book that sticks with me, and which I think, sums up the tone of this book.
"Each person is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."
From climate change, race, election, and media, to everything else in between.
I found Amy's reading short, sweet, and to the point, the political leanings were sown into the writing--which was expected--but more than anything, I got a history lesson from this book.
The best analogy that I can think of (and this might be horrible, let me know?) but imagine if Howard Zinn were a reporter, and instead of reporting the facts of the real history several hundred years ago, but instead was doing it day by day, as it happened.
"Nothing but the facts ma'am" and Amy delivers!
Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
"Each person is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."
From climate change, race, election, and media, to everything else in between.
I found Amy's reading short, sweet, and to the point, the political leanings were sown into the writing--which was expected--but more than anything, I got a history lesson from this book.
The best analogy that I can think of (and this might be horrible, let me know?) but imagine if Howard Zinn were a reporter, and instead of reporting the facts of the real history several hundred years ago, but instead was doing it day by day, as it happened.
"Nothing but the facts ma'am" and Amy delivers!
Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
19 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
Amy Goodman is one of those few journalists not on the payroll of the corporate media giants nor "embedded' with the military-industrial complex. As a result, she write with a freshness and integrity that is unfettered by ideological bias, political clichés, or the myths common to American civics classes, business school s and military academies. Like Arundhati Roy, Michael Hogan and Noam Chomsky she is able to show through carefully documented facts how the so-called experts on Fox and CNN consistently get it wrong, and why their getting it wrong is no accident.
I just finished reading Arundhati Roy's Field Notes on Democracy and Michael Hogan's Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy. I noticed that they had both been "paired" with Goodman's Breaking the Sound Barrier, and the reason for this is obvious. All three books are written by clear-thinking citizens with no axe to grind, no ties to any ideology or corporate entity. They were written by Socratic "gadflies" and by their relentless questioning they bring back to the rest of us in the cave an alternative view of the world which is both troublesome and oblique--like the truth. Without Any Goodman and her few companions in courage, my view of the world would be a very bleak and befuddled one, like that of the million viewers and listeners of the mass media and the readers of Sarah Palin.
I just finished reading Arundhati Roy's Field Notes on Democracy and Michael Hogan's Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy. I noticed that they had both been "paired" with Goodman's Breaking the Sound Barrier, and the reason for this is obvious. All three books are written by clear-thinking citizens with no axe to grind, no ties to any ideology or corporate entity. They were written by Socratic "gadflies" and by their relentless questioning they bring back to the rest of us in the cave an alternative view of the world which is both troublesome and oblique--like the truth. Without Any Goodman and her few companions in courage, my view of the world would be a very bleak and befuddled one, like that of the million viewers and listeners of the mass media and the readers of Sarah Palin.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Amy Goodman's Democracy Now
8 Feb 2010
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Amy Goodman, whose Democracy Now! says it all and says it well, collects bits of work in this anthology. It's a perfect introduction to a woman whose passion is for social justice. I recommend it highly. It's articulate, detailed, and persuasive. It's not funny, though: Goodman could use the bite of a sense of humor at times. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," for example, was a short essay whose satire even today still takes to court the Brits who mistreated the Irish. Still, she's always on target and takes down her prey not with rhetoric or propaganda but with truth telling.
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