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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, 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 |
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Views Thursday, April 27, 2017 As Trump Stokes Fear Among Immigrants, a Movement Builds on May Day Arturo Hernandez, like so many millions of immigrants, came to the United States in order to forge a better life for his family. He is one of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants without whom the U.S. economy would grind to a halt, yet who are forced to live in the shadows, at risk of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 30, 2017 In Trump’s America, Your Privacy Is for Sale Unless you’re reading this column in a good old newspaper, odds are your internet service provider (ISP) knows what you’re up to. ISPs are the on-ramp to the internet; it is through these gatekeepers that we all access the internet. They set the price and the speed of your connection, but were... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 18, 2017 Facing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs The world is facing the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II. Twenty million people are at risk of starving to death in Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is responding by slamming the door on refugees and cutting aid funding... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 09, 2017 ‘A Day Without a Woman’: The Women’s Global Strike and the Growing Movement Against Donald Trump The Statue of Liberty went dark Tuesday, the day after President Donald Trump signed his revised executive order, dubbed the “Muslim ban 2.0,” excluding all refugees and people from six majority-Muslim countries. The darkening also foreshadowed the next day, Wednesday, International Women’s Day,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 23, 2017 The U.S. Rejected Would-Be Refugee Anne Frank—Let’s Not Make a Similar Error Now Anne Frank would be 87 years old had she not perished in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. What words of wisdom might she offer the Trump administration as it crafts its latest iteration of its Muslim and refugee ban? Anne Frank is known for her famous diary, written while she... Read more |