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Znet Article Hallinan: Israel/Palestine

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Conn Hallinan
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In a 2002 Le Monde Diplomatique article titled 'Constructing Catastrophe,' Israeli journalist Amon Kapeliouk challenged one of the central myths about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. To wit: that Palestinian President Yas...

Znet Article Hallinan: The Fate of Gaza

Znet Article, December, 11 2005 Conn Hallinan
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There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg's New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior's former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration's combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary o...

Znet Article Hallinan: Destabilization won't be easy

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Conn Hallinan
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It would be easy to make fun of President Bush's recent fiasco at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. His grand plan for a free trade zone reaching from the Artic Circle to Terra del Fuego was soundly rejected by nations fe...

Znet Article Hallinan: Cornering The Dragon

Znet Article, February, 24 2005 Conn Hallinan
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When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently warned that China's modernization of its military posed a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing influence of hard-liners in the B...

Znet Article Hallinan: Nepal - Nursing the Pinion

Znet Article, February, 07 2005 Conn Hallinan
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While the U.S., India and Great Britain have sharply condemned the Feb.1 coup by King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal, the policies of those three governments vis-à- vis the ongoing civil war in the Himalayan nation must share considerable bla...

Znet Article Hallinan: US War Crimes in Iraq

Znet Article, November, 05 2004 Conn Hallinan
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"...The Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives" Arti...

Znet Article Hallinan: Old Domino's New Clothes in Colombia

Znet Article, March, 05 2004 Conn Hallinan
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There are moments in American foreign policy that run a déjà vu chill down one's spine. Just such a moment was the recent talk to a group of Cali businessmen by William Wood, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia. In his remarks, Wood endorsed efforts by ...

Znet Article Hallinan: The US and Nepal

Znet Article, February, 01 2004 Conn Hallinan
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Tucked into the upper stories of the Himalayas, Nepal hardy seems ground zero for the Bush Administration's next crusade against "terrorism," but an aggressive American ambassador, a strategic locale, and a flood of U.S. weaponry threatens to turn...

Znet Article Hallinan: Food Bully

Znet Article, July, 27 2003 Conn Hallinan
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The decision by the Bush Administration to sue the European Union (EU) over its five-year moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods has all the earmarks of a "shock and awe" campaign targeted at prying open a major potential market. But the su...

Znet Article Hallinan: Double Crossing the Kurds

Znet Article, March, 29 2003 Conn Hallinan
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Northern Iraq is a region steeped in colonial ghosts, political betrayals, and ethnic tensions, an area that the U.S. invasion now threatens to ignite into a disastrous civil war between its kaleidoscope of tribes, people, and adjoining countries....

Znet Article Hallinan: Flying Burglar

Znet Article, March, 06 2003 Conn Hallinan
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While the Bush Administration is calling the recent interception of a U.S. spy plane by North Korean fighters a "provocation," it is instead the logical outcome of a deeply flawed U.S. policy toward Pyongyang, and one that threatens a potentially ...

Znet Article Hallinan: Sowing The Wind

Znet Article, January, 27 2003 Conn Hallinan
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When the Bush Administration threatened North Korea with nuclear weapons last year, it did more than ignite the present standoff in North Asia, it opened a Pandora's Box of proliferation. The genesis of the present crisis goes back to the Adminis...

Znet Article Hallinan: War Is Good Business

Znet Article, January, 11 2003 Conn Hallinan
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War, the expression goes, is a bad business. It's certainly not a good idea if you're a soldier or civilian caught in the middle of one, and it tends to raise havoc with things like domestic spending. But if you are Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumm...

Znet Article Hallinan: Silence Is Betrayal

Znet Article, October, 25 2002 Conn Hallinan
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Silence Is Betrayal

Znet Article Hallinan: The Global Goodfellas at the IMF

Znet Article, January, 11 2002 Conn Hallinan
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Here's a riddle: What is the difference between Tony Soprano and the International Monetary Fund? Answer: Nothing, except that Tony and his Mafia pals, who extort and impoverish a handful of people in New Jersey, are a television creation. The IMF...

Znet Article Hallinan: The Scent of Another Coup

Znet Article, December, 29 2001 Conn Hallinan
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There is the smell of a coup in the air these days. It was like this in Iran just before the 1953 U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Mossedeah government and installed the Shah. It has the feel of 1963 in South Vietnam, before the military takeover sw...

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