Articles by Conn Hallinan
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These Nuclear Breakthroughs Are Endangering the World
Conn Hallinan | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
How a growing technology gap between the U.S. and its nuclear-armed rivals could lead to the unraveling of arms control agreements — and even nuclear war.
→ read full articleThe ‘American Century’ Has Plunged the World into Crisis – What Happens Now?
Conn Hallinan and Leon Wofsy – Foreign Policy In Focus,
22 Aug 2016
U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, deeply out of sync with real global challenges, full of corruption, and has not done the world well. Continuous war is inevitable if we continue to follow these same policies. Can we change this for the better?
→ read full articleFrom Brexit in the UK to Austerity in Spain, Europe is on the Edge
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
18 Jul 2016
European elites are blaming “stupid” voters for turning against an economic system that hasn’t worked for them.
→ read full articleA Very Brazilian Coup
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
6 Jun 2016
Brazil’s elites can’t win an election, but they can engineer an impeachment.
→ read full articleSpain Says “No”
Conn Hallinan - CounterPunch,
28 Dec 2015
Following in the footsteps of Greek and Portuguese voters earlier this year, Spaniards soundly rejected the economic formula of the Troika. The game is changing, and Spain is a new piece on the board, one that the Troika will not be able to bully quite as easily as Greece and Portugal.
→ read full articlePortugal: The Left Takes Charge
Conn Hallinan – CounterPunch,
7 Dec 2015
1 Dec 2015 – After several weeks of political brinkmanship, Portugal’s rightwing president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, finally backed off from his refusal to appoint the leader of a victorious left coalition as prime minister and accept the outcome of the Oct. 4 national elections. Suddenly Portugal is a little bit kinder place than it was a month ago. Small things can lead to big things.
→ read full articlePortugal: Europe’s Left Batting 1.000
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
19 Oct 2015
In Portugal’s elections, Left parties garnered more than 50 percent of the vote and austerity took a major hit. The EU is now the single most powerful alliance of capital on the planet, and it is not a bit shy about crushing anything it sees as a potential threat. However, the Troika’s efforts to scare—and bribe—Portugal failed.
→ read full article‘The American Century’ Has Plunged the World into Crisis. What Happens Now?
Conn Hallinan and Leon Wofsy – Foreign Policy In Focus,
29 Jun 2015
U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges. Is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course?
→ read full articleGreece: Memory & Debt
Conn Hallinan, Dispatches from the Edge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As Germany squeezes Greece, it’s in denial about the skimpy reparations it paid Greece for World War II.
→ read full articleTurning the European Debt Myth Upside-Down
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
9 Mar 2015
The European debt crisis has little to do with poor budgeting and everything to do with crony capitalism. Myths are dangerous because they rely more on cultural memory and prejudice than facts.
→ read full articleMove Over, NATO and IMF: Eurasia Is Coming
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
13 Oct 2014
A thousand poles are blooming as new international blocs like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS Development Bank emerge to challenge Western economic and military hegemony.
→ read full articleSanctions & the Dollar: A Fall from Grace?
Conn Hallinan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
→ read full articleThe Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt
Conn Hallinan – The Nation,
10 Mar 2014
Ukraine’s ultra-right-wing Svoboda party is no fringe organization. You’d never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on government buildings. The most prominent of the groups has been the ultra-right-wing Svoboda or “Freedom” Party.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Colonialism’s Dead Hand
Conn Hallinan – Foreign Policy In Focus,
10 Feb 2014
The United States now has troops in some 35 countries in Africa. Washington has deployed somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 troops in Djibouti on the horn of Africa and at least 100 Special Forces in Uganda and Niger. It is training Kenyans to fight the Shabab in Somalia, Ugandans to track the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it is building a drone base in Niger.
→ read full articleBLOOD AND OIL IN CENTRAL ASIA
Conn Hallinan,
21 Jul 2009
In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent strategic alliance between Russia and China. At stake is nothing less than who holds the future high ground in the competition for the world’s energy resources. Increasing Competition […]
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