Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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World
Day of the drone: The illusion of ‘bloodless war’
March 15, 2021Drone pilots in their air-conditioned trailers in Nevada will never go down with their aircraft, but people on the receiving end will eventually figure out how to strike back.
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Opinion
China’s ‘Sea of Conflict’
February 10, 2021President Joseph Biden Jr’s. administration faces a host of difficult problems, but in foreign policy, its thorniest will be its relations with the People’s Republic of China.
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Opinion
‘You can’t be serious’ awards
January 19, 2021Each year Conn Hallinan gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. These are the awards for 2020.
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News
Biden should end drone wars and halt space militarization
December 18, 2020
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World
The rule of big oil causes misery in the Middle East
September 11, 2020Covid-19 is not the Black Death, but its impact may be civilizational, weakening the mighty, raising up the modest, and rearranging axes of power across the globe.
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World
Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements
June 18, 2020Some of this is about making arms manufacturers and generals happy, but it is also about the fact that the last war the U.S. won was Grenada.
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World
Guns or vaccines? Racing to build weapons of death during a pandemic
May 14, 2020The U.S. spends $1.25 trillion a year on defense. Half that amount could provide adequate medical support during the COVID-19 crisis and pay jobless Americans a salary.
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World
Only good news allowed—India’s independent media fights government’s COVID-19 censorship
April 15, 2020The government got the Supreme Court to order all media to “publish the official version” of the health crisis, which, in practice, has meant feel-good stories.
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