Articles by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
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Billionaire Politics: A Danger to Democracy
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Donald Trump was “interviewed” this week on X by owner Elon Musk, whose questions were so deferential that End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission. An instance of the power of billionaires attempting to hijack the political process for their own ends.
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“Welcome to Hell”: U.S. Silence on Israel’s Network of Torture Camps
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
8 Aug 2024 – Palestinian solidarity activists are focusing on presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris, who opted not to preside over Netanyahu’s recent address to a joint session of Congress. Activists disrupted her speech in Detroit chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.”
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Julian Assange Is Free, but Journalism Remains under Threat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – Julian Assange is free. After a 14-year ordeal including over five years in Britain’s harsh, maximum security Belmarsh Prison, the founder of WikiLeaks agreed to a deal with the US, pleading guilty to one felony count. His sentence: Time served.
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Daylight Comes to Chiquita’s Use of Colombian Death Squads
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – A federal court in Miami rendered a $38 million verdict against the multinational Chiquita Brands International for funding paramilitary death squads in Colombia, which killed thousands of banana workers there over the last century.
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A Gaza Twins’ Desperate Fight for Survival
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Gaza, the most densely-populated place on Earth, “the world’s largest open-air prison,” has become a hellish cauldron of human suffering. The Gaza Strip is entering the ninth month of military onslaught that has killed over 36,500 people, 15,000 children – believed to be a gross underestimate.
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The Global Demand for a Gaza Ceasefire Grows, Leaving Biden Behind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israel’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has provoked unprecedented global outcry. On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah.
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Breaking Ranks with Biden, on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Another protest movement has emerged: dissenters within the U.S. government who offer a behind-the-scenes critique of U.S. policies devastating Gaza. Despite this wave of informed dissent, Biden continues to provide arms and diplomatic cover to Israel.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe.” Israel’s genocidal mass slaughter in Gaza must end immediately. It’s not good for Israel or its national security. It’s devastating for Palestinians. It’s illegal and immoral.
→ read full articleWhat Happens When Universities Engage, rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring.
→ read full articleCampus Protests, Press Freedom and Palestine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – World Press Freedom Day comes this week amidst Gaza solidarity protests on campuses across the world. In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
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US Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – “What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads a sign that greets students at the University of Texas–Austin. But a photo shows the sign in front of a row of state troopers in riot gear to disperse students protesting genocide in Gaza. Armed with semi-automatic rifles and mounted on horseback, they proceeded to violently arrest at least 50 students, including a journalist.
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Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Israel is imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed… We are fighting human animals.”
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.
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(Italiano) Aaron Bushnell e Johan Galtung: in lutto per due oppositori di principio della guerra
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Di recente il mondo ha perso due grandi oppositori della guerra, ma in circostanze drasticamente diverse. Johan Galtung è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni. Il sociologo norvegese era conosciuto come il padre degli studi sulla pace e ha trascorso la sua vita a ricercare i conflitti e a promuovere il dialogo per la pace. Aaron Bushnell aveva solo 25 anni. Era un membro in servizio attivo dell’aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti.
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Hypocrisy: Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – “It is absurd and hypocritical to publicly profess horror at Netanyahu’s inhumane war,” US Sen. Bernie Sanders said on the Senate yesterday, “while…we ship tens of thousands of bombs to his army. It is absurd to criticize Netanyahu’s war and provide him another $10 billion to continue that war.”
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Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The world lost two principled opponents of war. Johan Galtung died on 17 Feb at the age of 93; known as the father of peace studies, he spent his life researching for peace. Aaron Bushnell was just 25 years old, a member of the US Air Force. On 25 Feb he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.
→ read full articleWitnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hospitals have become battlegrounds.
→ read full articleBig Oil Wins Big at COP28 in Dubai
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
14 Dec 2023 – COP29 next year will be in Azerbaijan, another repressive petrostate where on 5 Dec six journalists were arrested. Petrostates like the UAE and Azerbaijan play predictable roles in protecting the status quo, but it’s the world’s biggest petrostate that brandishes the most power inside the COPs: the United States.
→ read full articleCarbon Colonialism, COP28 and the Climate Crisis
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – Exhibit One: COP28 is being hosted by the UAE, the seventh largest oil producing nation on the planet, and the COP Presidency is currently held by Minister of Industry Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of the UAE’s state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Conflict of interest…?
→ read full articleIsrael’s Collective Punishment of Gaza Must End
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres
→ read full articleAs Israel Levels Gaza, the U.S. Media Fuels the Fire
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – As Israel intensifies its brutal response to Hamas’ 7 Oct attacks, it is important to hear from those at the target end of the weapons – from both sides of the conflict. The mainstream media in the US consistently brings us only the voices of Israelis who have suffered violence.
→ read full articleFrom Iran to the US: Our History of Coups Has Come Home to Roost
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – 19 Aug marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, in a coup d’état orchestrated by the US and UK, launching decades of coups, assassinations and “regime change” worldwide. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and his 18 co-conspirators are arrested for attempted coup against the US electoral system.
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A Titanic Disparity in How the World Responds to Maritime Disasters: Center vs. Periphery
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023 – Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.
→ read full articleHiroshima’s Nuclear Lesson: The G7 Must Push for Peace in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – President Joe Biden is attending this year’s G7 summit, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons there at the top of the agenda. The G7 comprises Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK, and Germany.
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Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on 21 Feb 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters were in the ballroom looking on.
→ read full articleThe Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – The US government’s impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years ‘War on Terror’ is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon’s pervasive propaganda machine all work together.
→ read full articleLies, Damn Lies, and Climate Change
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The World Economic Forum has been discussing world problems for just about as long as ExxonMobil has been lying about climate change. Greenland just had its hottest decade in 1,000 years and that its massive ice sheet is rapidly melting, causing more sea level rise. Catastrophic climate disruption is here, and disruptors like Greta Thunberg are clearly not the ones who should be arrested.
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Brazil Has a New President, and a Renewed Chance to Save the Amazon
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
5 Jan 2023 – The victory in Brazil’s presidential race by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be one of the most momentous events in modern world history. Lula returned for a third term and has pledged to protect the Amazon and the indigenous communities that have long stewarded the forest.
→ read full articleQatar’s World Cup Is a Lavish Exercise in Sportswashing
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers is a consequence of colonialism: The “kafala” system was the migrant labor governance structure put in place initially by British colonizers to preserve their own interests.
→ read full articleLost and Damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – An estimated 30,000 people from around the world have descended on this Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The summit is hosted by Egypt, a dictatorship propped up by billions of dollars annually in military aid from the United States.
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Howard Zinn at 100: the Enduring Legacy of the U.S. People’s Historian
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
24 Aug 2022 marked six months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, with millions displaced and tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers killed. That same day marked the centennial of the late historian Howard Zinn’s birth. He was an author, professor, and anti-war activist.
→ read full articleAssange Attorneys and Journalists Sue the CIA over Spying
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – “Journalists are allowed to request documents that have been stolen and to publish them.” So wrote U.S. federal Judge John Koeltl in a 2019 opinion dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others.
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Mass Shootings: American Exceptionalism of the Worst Kind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
26 May 2022 – A shocking number of U.S. mass shootings take place in schools. According to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, there have been 2,054 school shootings in the United States since 1970, with 681 deaths. Canada has had a total of eight school shootings in about the same time frame, from 1975, with a total of 31 victims killed.
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Acclaimed Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
12 May 2022 – Shireen was a beloved journalist known for her tireless reporting on Palestine. As news of her death spread, crowds turned out in a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief gathered outside her home in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers then raided the home in an act both pointless and cruel.
→ read full articlePeace Now in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – Is a Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent? At the heart of this avoidable catastrophe is Moscow’s concern over the ever-increasing U.S. military threat on its doorstep. Since the Soviet Union fell, the U.S, through its NATO allies, has pushed troops and arms closer to Russia. Grassroots movements must demand peace and diplomacy, now, before the outbreak of war.
→ read full articleStop Prosecuting the Press: Biden’s Persecution of Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Sadly, with its ongoing prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder, the Biden administration is leading the attack on journalism and strengthening the hand of would-be autocrats everywhere. Democracy is under assault. Biden must live up to his promise to support a free press and drop the prosecution of Julian Assange.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu, Rest in Power
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu died the day after Christmas at the age of 90. The Nobel Peace laureate was a leader in the movement to overthrow apartheid, South Africa’s brutal system of racial segregation. He gave the Boston speech not long after St. Thomas University in Minneapolis/St. Paul rescinded an invitation to speak because of his unwavering solidarity with Palestinians.
→ read full articleFrom AIDS to Omicron, Pharmaceutical Apartheid Hurts Us All
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – People over profit must be the guiding mantra as we soon enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without immediate action, we could well be dealing with COVID, just as we still battle AIDS, for the next forty years.
→ read full articleAs the World Burns, Glasgow’s COP26 Called a Failure
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – “We should call it the ‘Glasgow suicide pact’ for the poorest in the world,” Asad Rehman of the COP26 Coalition said. “It does not keep us below the 1.5 degree Celsius guard rail. In fact, it heads us closer to 3 degrees [C, or 5.4 degrees F]…They’re ramming through so many loopholes that it makes a mockery of these climate negotiations.”
→ read full articleLike Locusts, Lobbyists Swarm COP26 in Glasgow
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
11 Nov 2021 – The UK’s strict visa requirements and its failure on promised pre-COP vaccination for attendees from nations with low vaccine availability have made this summit the whitest, most privileged COP in its 30-year history. Meanwhile, over 500 oil, gas and coal lobbyists have been given the red carpet treatment. If they were a nation, they would be the largest delegation at COP26.
→ read full articleAt UN Climate Summit, It’s People Power vs. Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
4 Nov 2021 – The UK, hosting COP26 this year, has thrown up insurmountable entry barriers for many activists and observers. This will be the whitest and most privileged COP since the first in 1992, due to vaccine apartheid and obstructive visa requirements. An estimated 30,000 people have converged on Glasgow to attend the summit, and thousands of climate justice activists, mostly from Europe, are arriving to organize outside the summit compound, demanding action.
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Mansoor Adayfi: Detainee #441, Lost and Found at Guantánamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – Yemeni-born Mansoor Adayfi, or “Detainee #441,” was held for 14 years, until 2016. He is now living in exile in Serbia, where the U.S. forced him to relocate despite having no connection to the country. Adayfi’s memoir has just been published. “I was sold to the CIA and was taken to the black site, where I was tortured for over two months.”
→ read full articleHaitians Fleeing “Unacceptable Misery” Greeted by Whips and Shackles at U.S. Border
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021 – Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers as they waded across the Rio Grande River into Texas shocked the world this week. After as many as 15,000 refugees arrived, sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, President Biden responded with an aggressive deportation campaign.
→ read full articleThe Spy Who Came in through Your Phone
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – A cybersecurity organization at the University of Toronto revealed the existence of a “zero-click” exploit that exposed 1.65 billion Apple iPhone and other devices to a complete and undetectable takeover by the spyware Pegasus, produced by NSO Group. Pegasus grants unlimited access to all of an infected device’s content: chat messages, emails, phone calls, control of microphone and camera, phone’s location in real time.
→ read full articleFrom Kabul to the Rio Grande, the U.S. Creates Refugee Crises
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
26 Aug 2021 – The United States has long branded itself as a safe haven for refugees fleeing war and persecution abroad. It has a responsibility to provide a safe haven for refugees, from Afghanistan, Latin America, or elsewhere, and to cease interventions that fuel these crises and displace so many.
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The Pentagon Papers at 50: Press Freedom and Whistleblowers Still at Risk
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 -Legendary whistleblower Dan Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers fifty years ago, a courageous act of truth-telling for which he later faced life in prison. He hasn’t stopped since. Last May, just weeks after turning 90 years old, Ellsberg made yet another disclosure of classified national security information.
→ read full articleThe Lethal Nexus: Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
3 Jun 2021 – You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. That’s one to two per day.
→ read full articleColor, COVID and the Coup
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – People of color in the USA are more likely to die of gun violence and to contract COVID-19, and when they do, disproportionately suffer more serious consequences, including death. The violent white supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th put the ugly realities of racism and inequality in this country in stark relief. Trump’s departure from the Oval Office is only the first step.
→ read full articleClimate Chaos amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years after Paris
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed to avert global climate chaos. World leaders, though, are primarily focused on COVID-19 with over 1.6 million people worldwide dead and over 74 million reported. These twin crises demand a global, collective coordinated response, with equitable, free distribution of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, and a vigorous, just green recovery.
→ read full articleJulian Assange, and Press Freedom, on Trial in London
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020 – Press freedom itself is currently on trial in London, as Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S. He faces 175 years in prison and his unjust imprisonment would serve as an example to anyone daring to publish leaked information critical of the U.S. government.
→ read full articleTrump’s Rushed, Racist Vaccine Strategy Seeks Votes, Not a Cure
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
10 Sep 2020 – Under the World Health Organization, vaccine development is proceeding through a vast, global collaboration. Noticeably absent, however, is the United States. Here, President Donald Trump is intent on releasing a vaccine before the November election, placing his lust for power above the urgent demands of public health. Millions of Americans could be harmed if Trump forces the release of a vaccine before it’s proven to be safe and effective.
→ read full articleLet’s Give Thanks for Indigenous Resistance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – Thanksgiving is one of the great foundational myths of the United States, turning a single gathering of indigenous people in Massachusetts with English settler colonists in 1621 into one of the greatest whitewashes of genocide in world history. Even by that time, native people throughout the Western hemisphere had already suffered horrific violence for over a century, at the hands of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers intent on enslaving native people and exploiting the region’s vast resources.
→ read full articleTrump’s Worst Impeachable Offense Hurts the Whole World–Climate
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
11 Nov 2019
7 Nov 2019 – You can run from the climate crisis, but you can’t hide. The climate crisis imperils the planet. It is impeachable denying it, the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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A Worldwide Revolution Is Underway
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
4 Nov 2019
31 Oct 2019 – Puerto Rico. Hong Kong. Ecuador. Haiti. Lebanon. Iraq. And now, Chile. People are rising up around the world against austerity and corruption, defying police forces. Many share a fierce critique of capitalism. People are flooding the streets, globally, linking the movements against inequality with the fight for a just, sustainable world powered by renewable energy.
→ read full articleSnowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
7 Oct 2019
3 Oct 2019 – Snowden became increasingly alarmed by the vast surveillance state that he was helping to build, but knew that, if he were to follow the formal channels for raising concerns, it wouldn’t end well. “NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed,” he said on “Democracy Now!” “They lost their careers, they lost their homes, in some cases they lost their families, because of the stress and retaliation and consequences they face.”
→ read full articleGreta Thunberg, Frances Crowe and a Passing of the Torch
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, sailed into New York Harbor yesterday. The day before Greta’s arrival another activist ended a remarkable voyage. Frances Crowe, a lifelong peace activist, died at home at the age of 100. Frances Crowe, rest in power. Greta Thunberg, long may you carry the torch.
→ read full articleDead Man Walking: The Return of the Federal Death Penalty in the USA
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
19 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019 – 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. Since 1973, over 160 wrongfully convicted people have been freed from death row.
→ read full articleConfront Digital Oligarchs and Defend Net Neutrality
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
30 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – Imagine if Internet Service Providers had the authority to decide what websites you could visit, or what video chat program you must use to call friends or family. Large ISP corporations are trying to control the internet, to restrict the free flow of information, to restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear. Preserving net neutrality will thwart the digital oligarchs, keeping the internet open and free.
→ read full articleIn Thailand, the Kids Are All Right. Elsewhere, Not So Much
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
16 Jul 2018
12 Jul 2018 – In Thailand, the saga of 12 young soccer players and their coach successful rescue was a cause for global celebration. Juxtapose this outpouring of compassion and solidarity with the catastrophe facing millions of children in Yemen, and the ongoing debacle created here in the US by Trump with the forced separation of migrant children from their parents.
→ read full articleAfter Latest Gaza Slaughter: Open an Investigation, End the Occupation
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
28 May 2018
At the UN, the U.S. blocked a Security Council motion to launch an investigation. Donald Trump was represented at the U.S. Embassy ceremony by his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who in his speech blamed the violence on the Palestinians. Lies take lives. An investigation is not enough. The occupation must end, and those responsible for the slaughter must be held accountable.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Machine in Donald Trump’s Hands
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
11 Dec 2017
Now at 86 years old, Ellsberg is revealing for the first time that the Pentagon Papers were not the first classified documents that he removed from his secure workplace. In his new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, he details his early years at the Pentagon, and why he took thousands of pages of U.S. nuclear war plans describing the lunacy of the U.S. nuclear war policy over 55 years ago. What he discovered is frighteningly relevant today.
→ read full articleRespect Existence or Expect Resistance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – “It’s time to resist against state power, it’s time that we take responsibility for our own lives … that we create a world which gives us the power to act, instead of hoping that other people will solve problems.”
→ read full articlePuerto Rico Suffers while Defending against Disaster Capitalism
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – As eloquently articulated by journalist Naomi Klein in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” disasters both natural and human-made are increasingly being exploited by for-profit corporations and so-called free-market ideologues to reshape vast swaths of impacted societies, undermining social-welfare systems, privatizing public utilities, busting unions and making obscene profits rebuilding. Post-hurricane Puerto Rico is shaping up to be a textbook case of the shock doctrine.
→ read full articleEnsuring Catastrophe: The Price of Climate Denial
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
18 Sep 2017
“For the moment, of course, Trump is ascendant with the fossil fuel industry,” said 350.org founder McKibben. “But like many things that Trump touches, I think that this is a last gasp. People are coming to associate the insanity of going full speed ahead into this greenhouse future with the most reckless and crazy president that we’ve ever had.” So as climate-change-fueled disasters ravaged the U.S., Trump — the man who called climate change a Chinese hoax — was doing all he could to ensure future catastrophes.
→ read full articleRepression and Nonviolent Resistance in Africa’s Last Colony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
28 Nov 2016
Sultana Khaya’s eyes don’t match perfectly. One of them is artificial. In 2005, a Moroccan police officer rammed his baton into her eye socket while she was peacefully protesting with fellow college students. He then gouged her eye out with his hand. Sultana is Sahrawi, the indigenous population native to Western Sahara, occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco since 1975.
→ read full articleAs the Planet Warms, Trump Sends a Chill through Marrakech
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – Nowhere is the immediate and potentially devastating impact of Trump’s capture of the presidency felt more clearly than at the UN climate change summit here in Marrakech. Four years ago, Donald Trump famously tweeted, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
→ read full articleNorth Dakota vs. Amy Goodman: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW !,
19 Sep 2016
Last Thursday [8 Sep], an arrest warrant was issued under the header “North Dakota versus Amy Goodman.” The charge was for criminal trespass. “Charging a journalist with criminal trespassing for covering an important environmental story of significant public interest is a direct threat to freedom of the press and is absolutely unacceptable in the country of the First Amendment,” said Delphine Halgand, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders.
→ read full articleA Most Unhappy New Year at Guantanamo
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
4 Jan 2016
Currently there are 107 men imprisoned there, 48 of whom have been cleared for release for almost six years. Reuters recently reported that the Pentagon itself, which is supposed to be under the civilian control of Commander-in-Chief Obama, may be resisting the order to close Guantanamo.
→ read full article‘We Are Human Beings; We Are Not Dogs’
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
14 Dec 2015
On the outskirts of the northern French town of Calais, a massive, makeshift refugee camp called “The Jungle” grows daily, swelling with asylum-seekers fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and beyond. Their countries of origin are a map of the targets of U.S. bombing campaigns. More than 6,000 people here.
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16 Nov 2015
Three weeks after the attack in Kunduz, another MSF hospital was struck, this time in Yemen. The hospital was hit multiple times over a two-hour period last week, even though the roof was marked with the MSF logo and its GPS coordinates had been shared multiple times with the Saudi-led coalition. Every indication is that the Saudi Arabian military, using U.S.-provided bombers and arms, launched the strike.
→ read full articleStorming the Bastille at the Paris Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
2 Nov 2015
Since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have been dumping pollutants into the sky as if the atmosphere is a bottomless pit, able to absorb an infinite amount of our smoke and exhaust. Protest organizers have called for global actions on Nov. 28 and 29, demanding a fair, ambitious and binding agreement to confront, and ultimately reverse, the potential for catastrophic, human-induced climate change. If the leaders fail, many will be there to storm the Bastille.
→ read full articleNo Papal Bull: Francis Hails Peace and the Activists Who Fight for It
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
5 Oct 2015
Lincoln and King need little introduction. Dorothy Day was a crusading 20th-century activist who is formally being considered for Catholic sainthood. “She was a radical in her youth, underwent a conversion, and then started a movement, the Catholic Worker, to combine her faith with her commitment to social justice, the poor and the pursuit of peace.”
→ read full articleThe Migrant Crisis: Arms That Welcome, Arms That Kill
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
14 Sep 2015
“It’s 160,000. That’s the number that Europeans have to take in their arms.” — Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission. “It is our arms which are also killing and destroying these countries.” — Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for Germany’s Left Party.
→ read full articleArt, Politics and Social Change at the Venice Biennale
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Aug 2015
Venice served for centuries as the crossroads of the world, a city where East met West and art flourished. This year’s Venice Biennale, called “All the World’s Futures,” showcases a growing community of politically engaged artists, who not only reflect the beauty and brutality of the world, but might actually change it.
→ read full articleA Cuban Flag Flies Again in Washington
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
27 Jul 2015
The United States was the only country in the Western Hemisphere that didn’t have an embassy in Havana. And Cuba was the only country in the Western Hemisphere without an embassy here. This story began when the U.S. succeeded in isolating Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere, and now the first chapter has ended with the U.S. ending its isolation from the rest of the continent.
→ read full articleTorture, Impunity and the American Psychological Association
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
20 Jul 2015
The legal facade behind these heinous acts relied heavily on the cooperation of professional psychologists, who trained and advised the interrogators and supervised the progress of the “breaking” of prisoners. This cooperation was dependent on an official seal of approval from the American Psychological Association.
→ read full articleCybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
13 Jul 2015
The ability of regular people to access encryption tools has prompted the governments of both the United States and the United Kingdom to propose special access to all communications. They want a master key to everyone’s digital life.
→ read full articleThe High School Valedictory Address You Weren’t Supposed to Hear
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
8 Jun 2015
4 Jun 2015 – Evan Young was the valedictorian of this year’s graduating class at Twin Peaks High School, but Principal B.J. Buchmann told him he was not allowed to give his speech. “On a more serious note, there is something I would like to reveal to you. You may have already suspected this, but I hope this does not change your opinion of me: I am gay,” Evan said in his speech.
→ read full articleThe Pre-charge Punishment of Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
1 Jun 2015
No charges, no trial, no ability to defend yourself … don’t even have the right to documents, because you’re not even a defendant.” His skin is pale from years without sunlight, matching his prematurely white hair. But his resolve is unbroken, and the leaks he originally sought to publish when he founded WikiLeaks almost 10 years ago are still reaching the light of day.
→ read full articleTerror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Democracy NOW!,
17 Jun 2013
Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg countered the criticism, writing, “In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material—and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an ‘executive coup’ against the U.S. Constitution.”
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