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 Sunday, October 11, 2020 Donald Trump, Superspreader-in-Chief, Endangers White House Staff As President Trump exited the golden doors of Walter Reed hospital Monday, a reporter shouted, “How many of your staff are sick? Do you think you might be a superspreader, Mr. President?” Trump ignored him and boarded Marine One to the White House where he marched up to the balcony. He waved,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 06, 2020 This Labor Day, Honor Essential Workers and Remember Those Who Died From windows and rooftops through the early months of the COVID -19 pandemic, millions around the world cheered essential workers on the frontlines who daily risked contracting this highly contagious disease. Janitors, grocery store workers, drivers, warehouse workers, letter carriers, food... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 20, 2020 If Joe Biden Rejects His Progressive Base, Trump Will Win During the official roll call at the virtual Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, representatives from 57 states and territories declared their delegate totals for Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, each from an iconic setting highlighting their region. Native American delegates from the Dakotas... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 25, 2020 US Cities Need Masks and Tests, Mr. President, Not Shock Troops Camouflage-clad paramilitary vigilantes have been terrorizing Portland, Oregon, grabbing people protesting racism and police brutality, pulling them into unmarked minivans and driving off. These roving shock troops, with no insignia or badges, proved to be federal agents from a slew of agencies,... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 06, 2020 It's Medicare or Coronavirus-for-All “My co-workers make impossible choices daily because a lot of us don’t have access to affordable health insurance,” Vladimir Clairjeune, a passenger service representative at JFK airport, said at a training session Wednesday, learning to deal with the coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic. “[We] choose not... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 28, 2020 A Message for Trump: Coronavirus Threat Is About Public Health—Not the Stock Market or Your Reelection President Donald Trump and Larry Kudlow, the director of Trump’s National Economic Council, aren’t doctors, but they play them on TV. As the coronavirus epidemic spirals into a pandemic, causing a plunge in the U.S. stock market, Trump and Kudlow, a former CNBC TV host, are cynically spreading... Read more |
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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 |