Denis Moynihan
Denis Moynihan is a writer and radio producer who writes a weekly column with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman.
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Views Thursday, August 31, 2017 Hell Hath No Fury Like Mother Earth Scorned Hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm Harvey unleashed the fury of a warming planet on the Gulf Coast of Texas this week, leaving hundreds of thousands displaced and homeless, thousands languishing in crowded shelters, and killing at least 28 people. It is projected to be the costliest disaster in the... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 04, 2017 Trump’s Call for Police Brutality Is No Joke On Friday, President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of police officers in Long Island, New York, and sent a shocking message to the nation. Trump’s words are worth repeating in full, as they are an explicit endorsement of police brutality: “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 14, 2017 Donald Trump’s Climate Change Denial Ignites the Grass Roots As “Russiagate” becomes a full-blown conflagration threatening to consume Donald Trump’s presidency, his denial of human-induced global warming continues to threaten a planet already on fire. The world reeled on June 1 when Trump made good on his campaign promise to pull the United States out of... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 07, 2017 Trump’s Man With a Plan ... to Suppress the Vote Nationwide President Donald Trump can’t seem to get over the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. He lost massively, by over 2.8 million votes, but he won the Electoral College, and thus the presidency. Yet he has repeatedly claimed that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally for... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 30, 2017 Medicare for All: It’s a Matter of Life and Death “Kill the bill! Don’t kill me!” chanted protesters in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, opposing passage of the controversial Senate health care reform bill. President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are intent on repealing the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), even if their... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 15, 2017 White House for Sale: Emoluments, Corruption and Donald Trump “Emolument” is a word few people used, or even knew, until Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Now, it’s being bandied about the Beltway on a daily basis, and is at the heart of several lawsuits accusing President Trump of corruption. At issue is a rarely referenced item in the U.S. Constitution,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 01, 2017 Kabul Bomb Blast Kills at Least 90 People. We Need to Know Their Names. A suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 90 people and injured over 450. Hidden in a tanker truck, the bomb is likely one of the largest ever set off in Kabul. It left a crater 13 feet deep, and broke windows over a mile away. Among those killed were two media workers, Aziz Navin... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 25, 2017 Let the Media Coverage of Manchester Victims Be a Model for All Young Victims of War Donald Trump, the so-called leader of the free world, made his first foreign visit as president to an absolute monarchy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a petrostate legendary for its complete absence of democratic institutions and rampant violations of human rights. The signature foreign-policy... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 20, 2017 Donald Trump’s High Crimes and Misdemeanors President Donald Trump’s alleged attempt to quash the FBI investigation into his former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and his subsequent firing of FBI Director James Comey, has rightly inspired endless speculation in the mainstream media about whether he could be impeached... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 11, 2017 Donald Trump’s Ajit (Pai)-Prop “You’re fired!” When Donald Trump ousted FBI Director James Comey Tuesday night, it was more than just another of Trump’s shocking executive actions. Comparisons to Watergate are chillingly relevant; Comey was investigating potential collusion between the Russian government and Trump’s presidential... Read more |