President Trump's racist vaccine strategy driven by desire for votes, not...
Sep 10, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTrump is intent on releasing a vaccine before the November election, placing his lust for power above the urgent demands of public health.
View ArticleJulian Assange case puts press freedom on trial in London
Sep 17, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanNo U.S. president, of any party, should be allowed to threaten the free press. It is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
View ArticleDonald Trump's racist immigration policies fuel horrific abuses of women in...
Sep 24, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe racist, xenophobic and anti-immigrant policies of Trump and his senior advisor Stephen Miller act as gasoline on the fire of abuse suffered by undocumented...
View ArticleDonald Trump continues to encourage white supremacist violence
Oct 1, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis Moynihan"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by," President Trump declared at his first presidential debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
View ArticleThe infection election: from pallbearers to poll watchers
Oct 15, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanDonald Trump's pandemic response has cast a pall of death and economic calamity over the United States.
View ArticleU.S. President Donald Trump lies, but the COVID numbers don't
Oct 22, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanAlmost all U.S. states are now experiencing a sustained surge of COVID cases, with a national average of over 60,000 new cases per day, and almost 1,000 daily deaths.
View ArticleWhy the U.S. electoral college is anti-democratic
Oct 29, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis Moynihan"The founding fathers were really not inclined to have real popular choice of the people who would run our government," said the late historian Howard Zinn.
View ArticleU.S. Democrats expand progressive wing in Congress
Nov 5, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanWith intense focus on the presidential election, the electoral successes of progressive congressional candidates has been overlooked.
View ArticleTrump's election loss recalls Southern Confederacy's 'lost cause'
Nov 12, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTrump and Trumpism, embraced by over 70 million American voters in this past election, are the new embodiment of the Confederate states' so-called "lost cause"...
View ArticleU.S. Indigenous communities see COVID cases surge, but their political power...
Nov 19, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe Native American population turned out for the recent U.S. election in record numbers.
View ArticleTrump ponders pardoning himself as 54 death row inmates face execution
Dec 3, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTrump would be the first president in U.S. history to pardon himself. Meanwhile, the 54 people on U.S. federal death row can expect no such mercy from the lame-duck...
View ArticleAlliance mobilizes for a people's vaccine
Dec 10, 2020Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanA people's vaccine would prioritize global public health over the profits of pharmaceutical corporations, serving as a model for combating pandemics we face now and...
View ArticleThe violent riot on the U.S. Capitol was shocking but predictable
Jan 7, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanWith Trump and Confederate flags waving, violent insurrectionists rampaged through the halls of Capitol Hill in Washington.
View ArticleU.S. Capitol riot lays bare ugly realities of racism and inequality
Jan 14, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe violent white-supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 put some ugly truths in stark relief.
View ArticleSocial movements prepare to push for change as Biden and Harris take office
Jan 21, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanU.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris leapt into action after taking the oath of office. All this was made possible by the mass movements that...
View ArticleLakota First Nations call on Biden to shut down Dakota Access pipeline
Jan 28, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanShutting down the Dakota Access pipeline is a vital step towards repairing the damage already done, one that U.S. President Biden can and should take, with the...
View Article'Who is Pauli Murray?' honours life of civil rights icon
Feb 4, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe pioneering African-American legal scholar and organizer for racial and gender equality was celebrated this week at the annual Sundance Film Festival with the...
View ArticleTrump's second impeachment trial highlights deep roots of white supremacy
Feb 11, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe Senate should convict ex-president Donald Trump. But the underlying causes of the insurrection, racism and white supremacy, will require far more work to overcome.
View ArticleLegacy of climate change denial compounds crisis in Texas
Feb 18, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTexas, the proud, independent Lone Star State, is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe caused by its shortsighted denial of the climate crisis and lack of federal...
View ArticleVaccine apartheid threatens global effort to contain COVID-19
Feb 25, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanA key impediment to the mass vaccination of the global population is a supply shortage precipitated by greed.
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