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Hallinan: Afghanistan: Is It Really The End Game?
Znet Article, June, 03 2013
Conn Hallinan
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The war has cost American taxpayers over US$1.4 trillion, and according to a recent study, the final butcher bill for Iraq and Afghanistan together will top $6 trillion
Hallinan: Syria: A Multi-Sided Chess Match
Znet Article, April, 04 2013
Conn Hallinan
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he current conflict in Syria only resembles chess if the game is played with multiple sides, backstabbing allies, and conflicting agendas.
Hallinan: Syria: A Multi-Sided Chess Match
Znet Article, April, 01 2013
Conn Hallinan
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In the end, the effort to knock Syria off the board may succeed, although the butcher bill will be considerably higher than the current body count of 70,000
Hallinan: Chavez: Lest We Forget
Znet Article, March, 12 2013
Conn Hallinan
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Chavez handed a better life to the vast majority of Venezuelans
Hallinan: Israel & Syria: Behind the Bombs
Znet Article, February, 20 2013
Conn Hallinan
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Now that the dust has settled—literally and figuratively—from Israel’s Jan. 29 air attack on Syria, the question is, why?
Hallinan: Mali, France, and Chickens
Znet Article, January, 19 2013
Conn Hallinan
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That there is a surge of instability in that land-locked and largely desert country should hardly come as a surprise to the French: they and their allies are largely the cause
Hallinan: Four More Years: The Asia Pivot
Znet Article, December, 28 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The Asia-Pacific region has hosted four American conflicts and is today the focus of a “strategic pivot”
Hallinan: Four More Years: Central & South Asia
Znet Article, December, 04 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The region is emerging from its long, colonial nightmare, and it does not need—indeed, cannot afford—to be drawn into alliances designed half a world away
Hallinan: Middle East: The Next Four Years
Znet Article, November, 13 2012
Conn Hallinan
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Threatening to bomb people in order to get them not to produce nuclear weapons will almost certainly spur Iran (and other countries) to do exactly the opposite
Hallinan: Japan’s Right: Going Nuke?
Znet Article, October, 18 2012
Conn Hallinan
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An influential rightwing movement in Japan initiated a crisis it is using it to undermine Japan’s post-World War II peace constitution
Hallinan: Syria and the Dogs of War
Znet Article, October, 02 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The war has spread to Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, ignited regional sectarianism, and drawn in nations around the globe
Hallinan: Mali's War: The Wages of Sin
Znet Article, August, 28 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The bad dream unfolding in this West African country is less the product of a radical version of Islam than a consequence of the West’s scramble for resources
Hallinan: Moral Drones and the New York Times
Znet Article, July, 17 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The morality at play is with those who define the targets and push the buttons that incinerate people we do not know half a world away
Hallinan: Iran Sanctions: War By Another Name
Znet Article, July, 15 2012
Conn Hallinan
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In a sense, we are already at war with Iran
Hallinan: Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism
Znet Article, June, 16 2012
Conn Hallinan
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All over the world, capital is on the march, with the goal of rolling back the social programs of the post-World War II period and returning to the Gilded Age
Hallinan: Latin America Delivers A Swift Kick
Znet Article, May, 02 2012
Conn Hallinan
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Latin Americans no longer pay as much mind to the atmosphere in Washington as they used to. They are too busy confronting poverty and underdevelopment
Hallinan: The U.S. & the Afghan Train Wreck
Znet Article, April, 18 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The deep divisions the war has created will continue, and civil war is a real possibility
Hallinan: The Slide Toward War
Znet Article, February, 24 2012
Conn Hallinan
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Wars are fought because some people decide it is in their interests to fight them
Hallinan: Israel’s War On Democracy (and why Americans should care)
Znet Article, February, 01 2012
Conn Hallinan
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Political rights are under siege by right-wing legislators, militant settlers, and a growing religious divide in the Israeli army
Hallinan: New York Times Continues to Conceal U.S. Role in 1965 Indonesia Coup
Znet Article, January, 24 2012
Conn Hallinan
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The U.S. has yet to come clean on its role in the 1965 horror, and the New York Times has apparently decided to continue that silence
Hallinan: 2011 Dispatches News Awards
Znet Article, January, 02 2012
Conn Hallinan
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Dispatches From The Edge awards to news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?”
Hallinan: Gingrich, The Times & Doomsday
Znet Article, December, 16 2011
Conn Hallinan
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The “E-bomb” is real, and the general rule is, if you give the military a new toy, eventually they will want to test it in the real world
Hallinan: Pakistan: Anatomy of a Crisis
Znet Article, December, 05 2011
Conn Hallinan
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To China, all this looks like a campaign to surround Beijing with U.S. allies and to keep its finger on the Chinese energy jugular vein
Hallinan: Playing With Fire in Korea
Znet Article, November, 16 2011
Conn Hallinan
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If the U.S. is seriously interested in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, it should ratchet down its joint war games with South Korea
Hallinan: Pakistan: Reversing the Lens
Znet Article, October, 28 2011
Conn Hallinan
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Since the United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, Pakistan has lost more than 35,000 people, the vast bulk of them civilians
Hallinan: Why the Drone Wars Threaten Us All
Znet Article, October, 09 2011
Conn Hallinan
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The danger is that the U.S. is blurring the difference between civilian and military
Hallinan: Of Kabul & Tet & Generals
Znet Article, September, 18 2011
Conn Hallinan
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What generals don’t get (it tends to be above their pay grade) is that wars like Vietnam and Afghanistan— wars of occupation—are political, not military affairs
Hallinan: The New Scramble for Africa
Znet Article, September, 16 2011
Conn Hallinan
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Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the rightwing Heritage Foundation
Hallinan: Shadow Warriors
Znet Article, August, 19 2011
Conn Hallinan
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The U.S. is embarking on a military sea change that will replace massive deployments, like Iraq and Afghanistan, with stealthy night raids, secret assassinations, and death-dealing drones
Hallinan: Afghanistan: Anatomy of A Hit
Znet Article, July, 28 2011
Conn Hallinan
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The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai in Kandahar July 12 is one of those moments when the long and bloody Afghanistan war suddenly comes into focus
