Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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World
Spain: Breaking up is hard to do
August 28, 2017The upcoming vote for Catalan independence has all of Europe watching events in Spain. The October poll is seen as a referendum on the EU's austerity policies.
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The tortured politics behind the Persian Gulf crisis
July 27, 2017The splintering of the powerful Gulf Cooperation Council into warring camps has less to do with disagreements over foreign policy and religion than with internal political and economic developments in the Middle East.
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Europe: The danger from the center
June 14, 2017Europe is enmeshed in an economic crisis. If left-wing parties run to the center, things will only get worse.
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Politics
U.S. ‘super-fuze’ breakthrough expands nuclear killing power
April 28, 2017Under the veil of an otherwise-legitimate warhead life-extension program, scientists say the U.S. military has vastly expanded the killing power of its nuclear warheads.
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Turkey’s President Erdogan seeks dictator-like power in referendum
April 6, 2017Erdogan is out to dismantle Turkey’s political system and empower himself to dismiss parliament, control the judiciary, and rule by decree.
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Europe at the breaking point
March 22, 2017Elections are coming in France, Germany, and Italy. Their outcomes could change the future of the European Union forever.
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“American Exceptionalism”: A foreign policy of delusion
March 9, 2017Today’s humanitarian interventionists have substituted the words “international” and “global” for “imperial.”
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New world disorder: Iran and North Korea in the crosshairs?
February 23, 2017On foreign policy, disorder is the strategy of the day. But with a nervous Iran and a nuclear-armed North Korea fearing attack, Trump’s bombast is dangerous.
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