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Znet Article Hallinan: Afghanistan: Killing Peace

Znet Article, January, 15 2011 Conn Hallinan
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In spite of a White House declaration that "progress" is being made in Afghanistan, by virtually any measure the war has deteriorated significantly since the Obama Administration surged troops into Kandahar and Helmand provinces.

Znet Article Hallinan: Obits for "Fabled Hero" of Vietnam War, Vang Pao, Omit CIA Drug Connection

Znet Article, January, 14 2011 Conn Hallinan
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Cynicism, as the late Molly Ivins once noted, is the death of good journalism, but reading through the New York Times and the Associated Press' obituaries of Laotian-Hmong leader General Vang Pao made that sentiment a difficult one to resist.

Znet Article Hallinan: Review: Talking With Terrorists

Znet Article, November, 14 2010 Conn Hallinan
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Stories on Middle East terrorism fill the headlines. But if this Washington Post story is typical, read journalist Reese Erlich’s book to know where truth lies...

Znet Article Hallinan: Clash of the East Asian Titans

Znet Article, October, 22 2010 Conn Hallinan
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On the face of it, it is hard to explain why a minor collision between a Chinese fishing boat and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel this past August escalated to the point of Beijing and Tokyo nearly breaking off relations.

Znet Article Hallinan: Ecuador Riot or Coup?

Znet Article, October, 12 2010 Conn Hallinan
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A police riot over an austerity bill, or a failed attempt to oust leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa from office? In the aftermath of the Sept. 30 attack on Correa by police in Quito, it is looking more and more like this was an orchestrat...

Znet Article Hallinan: Does the U.S. Really Want Talks With the Taliban to Succeed?

Znet Article, September, 22 2010 Conn Hallinan
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Peace talks involving the Taliban and its allies are apparently underway, according to the Asia Times (AT), and from most accounts a deal appears doable. AT’s Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad reported Sept. 11 and 15th that, under the aus...

Znet Article Hallinan: Recent Colombian Mass Grave Discovery May Be "False-Positives"

Znet Article, August, 04 2010 Conn Hallinan
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If you want to understand what’s behind the recent tension between Colombia and Venezuela, think “smokescreen,” and then go back several months to some sick children in the Department of Meta, just south of Bogota. The children fell ill after drin...

Znet Article Hallinan: Torpedoing Conventional Thinking on the Cheonan

Znet Article, July, 22 2010 Conn Hallinan
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The narrative around the Mar. 26 sinking of the South Korean Navy Corvette Cheonan, and the death of 46 sailors, seems pretty straightforward...

Znet Article Hallinan: Scary Anti-Iran Talk Is Escalating

Znet Article, July, 15 2010 Conn Hallinan
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Crazy talk about the Middle East seems to be escalating, backed up by some pretty ominous military deployments...

Znet Article Hallinan: A Bad Week for the Monroe Doctrine

Znet Article, June, 16 2010 Conn Hallinan
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It is hard to find words that quite describe U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s performance at the June 7 meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Lima, Peru. Cluelessness certainly comes to mind, but leavened with a goodly d...

Znet Article Hallinan: Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine

Znet Article, May, 23 2010 Conn Hallinan
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Has the drone war in Pakistan's rugged frontier finally come home? Was Faisal Shahzad, the bumbling Times Square bomb maker, a blowback from the Obama administration's increased use of killer robots? David Sanger of The New York Times asks the que...

Znet Article Hallinan: The AfPak Train Wreck

Znet Article, December, 12 2009 Conn Hallinan
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When President Barack Obama laid out his plan for winning the war in Afghanistan, behind him stood an army of ghosts: Greeks, Mongols, Buddhists, British, and Russians, all whom had almost the same illusions as the current resident of the Oval Off...

Znet Article Hallinan: Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?

Znet Article, September, 12 2009 Conn Hallinan
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One of the oddest — indeed, surreal — encounters around the war in Afghanistan has to be a telephone call this past July 27. On one end of the line was historian Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. On the other, State Department spec...

Znet Article Hallinan: Disturbing Idea of Expelling Arabs from Israeli Territory Gains Ground

Znet Article, March, 04 2009 Conn Hallinan
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There is a growing consensus among Israelis that it would acceptable to expel its Arab citizens to either a Palestinian state or to Jordan and Egypt.

Znet Article Hallinan: Israel Treated Gaza Like Its Own Private Death Laboratory

Znet Article, February, 13 2009 Conn Hallinan
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Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war."It was as if they had stepped on a mine," he says of certain Palestinian patients he treated. "But there was no shrapnel in the wound. Some had lost their legs. ...

Znet Article Hallinan: Guns, Butter, and Obama

Znet Article, December, 20 2008 Conn Hallinan
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Over the next several months there will be a battle for hearts and minds, but not in Iraq or Afghanistan. The war will be here at home, waged mostly in the halls of Congress, where grim lobbyists for one of the top 15 economies in the world are di...

Znet Article Hallinan: Latin America's New Consensus

Znet Article, November, 01 2008 Conn Hallinan
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When the Mexican dictator Porfiero Diaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so near to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America.

Znet Article Hallinan: Targeting Unions in Colombia

Znet Article, October, 26 2008 Conn Hallinan
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There are lots of places in the world where you need to watch your step. You don't want to be a Sunni in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad (or vice versa). It's probably not smart to speak Tamal in southern Sri Lanka. You might want to keep being a...

Znet Article Hallinan: Danger in South Asia

Znet Article, September, 15 2008 Conn Hallinan
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If most Americans think Iran and Georgia are the two most volatile flashpoints in the world, one can hardly blame them. The possibility that the Bush administration might strike at Tehran's nuclear facilities has been hinted about for the past two...

Znet Article Hallinan: From Afghanistan to Africa

Znet Article, September, 10 2008 Conn Hallinan
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United Nations officials charge that secret “international intelligence services” are conducting raids to kill Afghan civilians, then hiding the perpetuators behind an “impenetrable” wall of bureaucracy.

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