Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of excitinginformative and probing analysis.Noam ChomskyAmy Goodman awardwinninghost of the daily ... » 

Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of excitinginformative and probing analysis.Noam ChomskyAmy Goodman awardwinninghost of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television programDemocracy Now breaks through the corporate medias lies sound bites andsilence in this wideranging new collection of articles. In place of the usualsuspectsthe experts who in Goodmans words know so little about so muchexplain the world to us and get it so wrongthis accessible livelycollection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heardloud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans to the courageousAmerican soldiers whove said No to Washingtons wars to the victims oftorture and police violence we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hearordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierceintelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from AmyGoodmans reportage Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power thatindependent journalism can play in the struggle for a better world one inwhich ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives andcommunities.Amy Goodman is the author of several books including TheException to the Rulers published in audiobook format by Haymarket Books. Sheis also the host of the radio and television program Democracy Now nowcarried on more than five hundred stations and on www.democracynow.org. «