Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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World
Europe’s elections: a coming storm?
September 16, 2015The backdrop for elections in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland is one of deep economic crisis ignited by the American financial collapse of 2007-08.
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World
Europe’s new barbarians
September 2, 2015Austerity as a strategy is more than just throwing a scare into countries, it is also undermining the social contract between labor and capital that has characterized much of Europe for the past two generations.
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World
U.S.-Turkey deal: disaster in the making
August 5, 2015The agreement between Turkey and the U.S. to cooperate against the Islamic State in Syria brings to mind a description of "crackpot realists."
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World
Is Russia a threat in Ukraine?
July 29, 2015Why are we in a standoff with a country that is not a serious threat to us, but does have the capacity to incinerate a sizable portion of the planet?
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World
Benghazi & Hillary: missing the story
July 13, 2015The congressional harrying of Clinton over emails concerning the 2012 death of a U.S. ambassador and three staff members in Benghazi has become a running joke.
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Opinion
Toward a new foreign policy
June 24, 2015U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges - is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course?
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World
Turkey’s election earthquake shakes things up
June 22, 2015Behind the storm that staggered Turkey's ruling party: a grassroots revolt against rising poverty, growing inequality and the AKP's war on trade unions.
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World
Dark plots in the Middle East?
June 10, 2015A quiet meeting this past March in Saudi Arabia, and a recent anonymous leak from the Israeli military, set the stage for what may be a new and wider war in the Middle East.
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