Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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World
Yemen war redraws Middle East fault lines
May 13, 2015Yemen, the small country tucked into the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, is shattering old alliances and spurring new ones.
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World
Kenya’s sorrow: the U.S. connection
April 29, 2015Absent from most of the mainstream American media was an examination of exactly what role the U.S. has played in Somalia over the past decade.
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World
Dangerous game: Yemen and the Congress of Reaction
April 15, 2015The civil war in Yemen is a long-running conflict over access to political power and resources, not religion, or any attempt by Iran to spread its influence.
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World
Fascists at the gate in Greece
March 30, 2015Golden Dawn - with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas, and Hitler salutes - makes it look like it inhabits the fringe, but it has roots that make it dangerous.
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World
Greece: debt and memory of war
March 23, 2015Memory is selective and therein lies an explanation for some of the deep animosity between Berlin and Athens in the current debt crisis.
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World
Syriza’s Greece: whispers of battles past
March 11, 2015The negotiations between Greece and the EU bring to mind Themistocles, a man who knew when to retreat and when to fight.
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Opinion
Lies and myths about Greece and Europe’s debt
March 2, 2015The European debt crisis goes back to the end of the roaring '90s when the banks were flush with money and looking for ways to raise their bottom lines.
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World
Syriza and the Greek earthquake: a deeper look
January 30, 2015Almost before the votes were counted in the recent Greek elections, battle lines were being drawn all over Europe.
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