Amy Goodman

From the Left / Amy Goodman / Jul 23, 2025

In 1516, a 7-acre section of Venice, Italy, was designated as the area where Jews would be required to live. As it was located where a copper foundry had been, it was called by the word for "foundry" in the Venetian dialect: "geto." The practice of forcibly concentrating Jews into such "ghettos" grew, reaching a brutal, murderous climax under ...Read more

Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens A 'Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'

From the Left / Amy Goodman / Jul 16, 2025

July 16 marked the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb's creator, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh desert terrain had been known for centuries by the name given by the Spanish conquistadors, the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of Death. The Trinity test was ...Read more