Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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Environment
Funerals for glaciers: Is it too late for Europe’s Green New Deal?
September 6, 2019The problem can be tackled, but only if the world mobilizes the kind of force it did to fight World War II.
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Politics
Leon Wofsy: The Organizer (1921-2019)
September 5, 2019Leon Wofsy understood that serious politics are mass politics.
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Environment
Rivers of dust: Water shortages hitting the Middle East—and everywhere else
August 1, 2019There are solutions, but they don't include privatization.
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Environment
Water wars: As climate change escalates, South Asia’s already fighting over water
July 11, 2019The weapon India's deploying against Pakistan isn't its considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
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World
Turkey’s wounded Erdogan could be dangerous
June 26, 2019For the second time in a row, Turkish voters have rebuked President Recep Tayyir Erdogan’s handpicked candidate for the mayoralty of Istanbul.
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News
Contrary to NY Times, Spanish vote not so great for EU
May 13, 2019For European parties on the center-left, Spain’s elections had a message: the old days of campaigning on left social democracy when you’re running for office and ruling with careful centrism once you get into power are...
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World
Revenge of the Kurds: Turkey’s Erdogan dealt blow in local elections
April 25, 2019But the autocrat is neither down nor out.
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World
Diego Garcia: U.S. military’s “unsinkable carrier” springs a leak
April 17, 2019International Court of Justice orders Britain to de-colonize the Chagos Islands immediately, putting strategic U.S. military base in limbo.
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