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Hallinan: The Wars Come Home: The Traumatic Brain
Znet Article, June, 22 2011
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According to official Defense Department (DOD) figures, 332,000 soldiers have suffered brain injuries since 2000
Hallinan: Iran's Turmoil at the Top
Znet Article, June, 17 2011
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The fight is over political and economic power: who wields it and to what purpose?
Hallinan: Why is the New York Times Censoring Afghan News?
Znet Article, May, 23 2011
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If you don’t print the news that you don’t like, it didn’t happen?
Hallinan: The Great Game’s New Clothes
Znet Article, May, 10 2011
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What we do know for certain is that there is a shift in Pakistan and the U.S. with regards to the Afghan war
Hallinan: Europe's Crisis and the Pain in Spain
Znet Article, April, 28 2011
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The contagion now threatens to strike at the center of Europe
Hallinan: Libya & the Law of Unintended Consequences
Znet Article, April, 08 2011
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Coming to grips with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) intervention in the Libyan civil war is a little like wresting a grizzly bear: big, hairy, and likely to make you pretty uncomfortable no matter where you grab a hold of it.
Hallinan: Europe's Austerity: A Grimm's Fairy Tale
Znet Article, March, 20 2011
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In ways big and small, Europeans from Greece to Portugal, from Britain to Bavaria are registering their growing anger with the relentless assault inflicted by government-imposed austerity programs.
Hallinan: Left Shows Its Claws in Irish Vote
Znet Article, March, 02 2011
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While the media focused on the massacre of the conservative Fianna Fail Party in the recent Irish elections, the real story may be the earthquake on the Left, particularly the success of the new kids on the block, the United Left Alliance (ULA).
Hallinan: Afghanistan: Killing Peace
Znet Article, January, 15 2011
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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.
Hallinan: Obits for "Fabled Hero" of Vietnam War, Vang Pao, Omit CIA Drug Connection
Znet Article, January, 14 2011
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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.
Hallinan: Review: Talking With Terrorists
Znet Article, November, 14 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Clash of the East Asian Titans
Znet Article, October, 22 2010
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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.
Hallinan: Ecuador Riot or Coup?
Znet Article, October, 12 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Does the U.S. Really Want Talks With the Taliban to Succeed?
Znet Article, September, 22 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Recent Colombian Mass Grave Discovery May Be "False-Positives"
Znet Article, August, 04 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Torpedoing Conventional Thinking on the Cheonan
Znet Article, July, 22 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Scary Anti-Iran Talk Is Escalating
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
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Crazy talk about the Middle East seems to be escalating, backed up by some pretty ominous military deployments...
Hallinan: A Bad Week for the Monroe Doctrine
Znet Article, June, 16 2010
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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...
Hallinan: Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine
Znet Article, May, 23 2010
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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...
Hallinan: The AfPak Train Wreck
Znet Article, December, 12 2009
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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...
Hallinan: "We Deeply Regret..."
Znet Article, October, 02 2009
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"We deeply regret" are words that almost always end with something terrible. They were uttered by German Defense Minister Franz Joseph Jung in the wake of a September 4 airstrike that left upwards of 100 Afghans dead. He followed it with a boilerp...
Hallinan: Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?
Znet Article, September, 12 2009
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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...
Hallinan: Disturbing Idea of Expelling Arabs from Israeli Territory Gains Ground
Znet Article, March, 04 2009
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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.
Hallinan: Israel Treated Gaza Like Its Own Private Death Laboratory
Znet Article, February, 13 2009
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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. ...
Hallinan: Guns, Butter, and Obama
Znet Article, December, 20 2008
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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...
Hallinan: Latin America's New Consensus
Znet Article, November, 01 2008
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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.
Hallinan: Targeting Unions in Colombia
Znet Article, October, 26 2008
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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...
Hallinan: Danger in South Asia
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
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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...
Hallinan: From Afghanistan to Africa
Znet Article, September, 10 2008
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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.
Hallinan: Georgia On The Mind
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
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One of the major causes of the recent war in Georgia has nothing to do with the historic tensions that make the Caucasus such a flashpoint between east and west. Certainly the long-stranding ethnic enmity between Ossetians and Georgians played a r...
