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, January 02, 2020 The Struggle to Vote in the U.S. One hundred years ago, women won the right to vote in the United States. The women's suffrage movement took decades of organizing to achieve success, from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, to mass civil disobedience and protest leading up to the adoption and ratification of the 19th Amendment in... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 21, 2019 A Violent Epidemic Is Taking American Lives Transgender Day of Remembrance falls annually on Nov. 20. Gwendolyn Ann Smith launched the commemoration in 1999, to remember Rita Hester, murdered a year earlier, and Chanelle Pickett, murdered three years before that. “No one I spoke with then knew who Chanelle Pickett was,” Smith reflected a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 07, 2019 Trump's Climate Crimes Are His Most Impeachable Offenses You can run from the climate crisis, but you can’t hide. On the front lines of this global environmental calamity, entire communities are being consumed by fire, submerged by typhoons and hurricanes, or baked under the sun amid historic droughts. President Donald Trump, the climate change denier in... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 04, 2019 Snowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower “I have a lot of respect for whistleblowers,” President Donald Trump said at a news conference Wednesday, before qualifying, “but only when they are real.” It remains unclear what the first U.S. president who comes from reality television means by “real.” What is clear is that the impeachment... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 27, 2019 Trump Is Deserving of an Impeachment Inquiry, Many Times Over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. “The president must be held accountable,” she announced Tuesday. Pelosi has been pressured for months on impeachment, from congressional and grassroots progressives. An intelligence community... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 15, 2019 The Ghastly Return of the Federal Death Penalty On July 25, in a surprise announcement, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said that the federal government would be resuming executions, with five scheduled in the coming months. This overturns an effective moratorium on the federal death penalty that has lasted over 16 years. "Punishment must be... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 U.S. Women's Soccer Players Gain a Global Platform for Their Battles Champagne corks were popping in lower Manhattan on Wednesday — not only for the victorious United States Women’s National Soccer Team as they were feted with a ticker tape parade up New York City’s “Canyon of Heroes” on Broadway, passing Wall Street, where the S&P 500 stock index crested 3000... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 02, 2019 Ilhan Omar Won't Be Cowed by Trump Last Saturday, the final day of the Jewish holiday of Passover, 19-year-old white supremacist John T. Earnest allegedly walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, raised his AR-style assault rifle and began shooting. He reportedly killed congregant Lori Gilbert Kaye as she stood in... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 25, 2019 Trump's Crusade Against Women Goes Global Before he became president, Donald Trump described himself as pro-choice. Now, he can’t do enough to deny women control of their own bodies. Marching in lockstep with Vice President Mike Pence and some of the most anti-choice members of his right-wing coalition, Trump has gone global in his crusade... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 19, 2019 The Horrors of Israeli Occupation Have Been Laid Bare Christians the world over look to the Holy Land this week as they celebrate Easter and the resurrection of Jesus, while Jews around the globe observe Passover, recalling their exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt. Current events in Israel and Palestine, though, are no cause for celebration, and are adding fuel to racial and political fires here in the United States. Read more |