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Znet Article Hallinan: Afghanistan: Not a Good War

Znet Article, August, 03 2008 Conn Hallinan
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Every war has a story line. World War I was 'the war to end all wars.' World War II was 'the war to defeat fascism.'

Znet Article Hallinan: A New Cold War?

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Conn Hallinan
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Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite.

Znet Article Hallinan: Rumors of War: Is Bush Gearing Up to Attack Iran?

Znet Article, June, 05 2008 Conn Hallinan
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The May 8 letter from U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to George W. Bush received virtually no media coverage, in spite of the fact that it warned the president that an attack on Iran without Congression...

Znet Article Hallinan: From Beirut to Bolivia, Ballots and Bullets

Znet Article, May, 25 2008 Conn Hallinan
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May has been a month of upheaval, from the streets of Beirut, where the Bush Administration appears to have miscalculated disastrously, to Santa Cruz Province in Eastern Bolivia, where a continent’s new political realignment is trying to checkmate...

Znet Article Hallinan: Basra: Echoes of Vietnam

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Conn Hallinan
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One battle rarely wins or loses a war, at least in the moment. Gettysburg crippled Lee's army in 1863, but the Confederates fought on until 1865. Stalingrad broke the back of the German 6th Army, but it would be two-and-a- half years before the Ru...

Znet Article Hallinan: Ignition Point? Another Defining Moment in Iraq

Znet Article, April, 15 2008 Conn Hallinan
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When the Battle of Basra opened on Mar. 25, President Bush described it as a "defining moment" for the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Within days, however, the White House was scrambling to distance itself from the shell...

Znet Article Hallinan: A River Runs Backward

Znet Article, March, 19 2008 Conn Hallinan
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When historians look back on the war in Afghanistan, they may well point to last December's battle for Musa Qala, a scruffy town in the country's northern Helmand Province, as a turning point. In a war of shadows, remote ambushes, and anonymous ro...

Znet Article Hallinan: Errant Nukes; Syrian Mystery

Znet Article, October, 03 2007 Conn Hallinan
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'Loose nukes sink...' well, just about anything. The official story is that on Aug. 30, the U.S. Air Force (AF) 'mistakenly' loaded six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on a B-52 at Minot, North Dakota and flew them to Barksdale, Louisiana for de...

Znet Article Hallinan: Enabling the Indonesian Military

Znet Article, September, 19 2007 Conn Hallinan
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Enabling the Indonesian Military

Znet Article Hallinan: U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq

Znet Article, September, 16 2007 Conn Hallinan
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According ...

Znet Article Hallinan: Afghan Rifts; Guns For Hire

Znet Article, July, 19 2007 Conn Hallinan
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The rising tide of Afg...

Znet Article Hallinan: Afghan deja vu; Paraguay; and more

Znet Article, May, 23 2007 Conn Hallinan
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Deja vu all over again...

Znet Article Hallinan: Iran and Beyond

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Conn Hallinan
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Iran and Beyond

Znet Article Hallinan: Price of Fire Review

Znet Article, March, 28 2007 Conn Hallinan
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The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia By Benjamin Dangl AK Press, 2007 $15.95 There was a time in history when travel diaries were the way people in London, Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam found out about the countrie...

Znet Article Hallinan: Dispatches From The Edge

Znet Article, February, 03 2007 Conn Hallinan
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Unrest in Bolivia’s eastern provinces is spreading, as local lan...

Znet Article Hallinan: Spy vs. Spy, War With Syria? The gang that couldn't poison straight, or welcome to the new Cold War?

Znet Article, December, 21 2006 Conn Hallinan
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Trying to unravel the ...

Znet Article Hallinan: Shafting the Vets

Znet Article, November, 22 2006 Conn Hallinan
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"War is hell," Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said 14 years after the end of the bloodiest conflict in US history. "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for...

Znet Article Hallinan: Israel/Palestine

Znet Article, July, 15 2006 Conn Hallinan
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AMY GOODMAN: We're joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of dozens of books. His latest is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on D...

Znet Article Hallinan: China: A Troubled Dragon

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 Conn Hallinan
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The image of China in the Western press is less the dragon of the Celestial Kingdom than J.R. Tolkin's Smaug, a beast of enormous strength and cunning, ravaging oil markets in Africa, copper ore in South America, and uranium deposits in Australia....

Znet Article Hallinan: Tales From The South Pacific

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Conn Hallinan
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U.S. Sec. Of State Condoleeza Rice's recent visit to Jakarta was the concluding act in the Bush Administration's five-year drive to whitewash the Indonesian military's sordid past, green light Indonesia's occupation of West Papua, and forge anothe...

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....

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