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 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 |
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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 |