Conn Hallinan

The late Conn Hallinan was a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. A retired journalism professor, he previously was an editor of People's World when it was a West Coast publication.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan

Opinion

Why an Afghan surge will fail
November 22, 2009 By Conn Hallinan
Before buying into an escalataion strategy, the Obama administration should spend some time examining the August 12 battle of Dananeh.
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Opinion

Neighbors on the corner: Skip the war
March 7, 2003 By Conn Hallinan
Opinion It is one thing to protest the Bush war stampede in Washington D.C., San Francisco or at a city – or county-wide march; it is quite another to demonstrate on a street corner on your...
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Peace

Aroused, determined, mobilized: Americans say no war on Iraq
February 14, 2003 By Conn Hallinan
In the wake of Sept.11, 2001, and the rightward shift in the 2002 elections, few in the Bush inner circle could have predicted that in the bitter winter of 2003, from Miami to Anchorage, millions of...
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Peace

Will we abandon the next Gulf War vets too?
February 14, 2003 By Conn Hallinan
As the United States ramps up for invading Iraq, we should know that we are sending our troops into the most toxic battlefield on earth. And should those soldiers suffer the huge number of disabilities that...
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PrintEditions

Quecreek miners demand answers
October 19, 2002 By Conn Hallinan
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – With thousands of lives at stake and a state honeycombed with abandoned coal mines, Quecreek miners, who electrified the nation when they survived 78 hours trapped in a flooded mine, scored a small...
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PrintEditions

Steelworkers gear for 2004 negotiations
October 3, 2002 By Conn Hallinan
PITTSBURGH – On Sept. 20, two-and-a-half years before contracts covering hundreds of thousands of active and retired steelworkers expire, local union officers who are members of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Basic Steel Industry Conference...
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PrintEditions

Three-piece thugs
September 26, 2002 By Conn Hallinan
Opinion There is a long list of right-wing Republican stuff that I really don’t get.
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PrintEditions

Steelworkers to bankrupt employers: Show me my money
September 20, 2002 By Conn Hallinan
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Steelworkers’ anger rattled the window panes and a few security guards as 500 active, laid-off and retired workers jammed the sidewalk and steps in front of the federal courthouse here, Sept. 12, for...
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