Become a Fan. You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEdNews
Conn M. Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy In
Focus, “A Think Tank Without Walls, and an independent journalist. He
holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He oversaw the journalism program at the University of California at Santa Cruz for 23 years, and won the UCSC Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as UCSC’s Innovations in Teaching Award, and Excellence in Teaching Award. He was also a college provost at UCSC, and retired in 2004. He is a winner of a Project Censored “Real News Award,” and lives in Berkeley, California.
Monday, April 30, 2012 Latin America Delivers A Swift Kick (1 comments)
Latin Americans no longer pay as much mind to the atmosphere in Washington as they used to. They are too busy confronting poverty and underdevelopment, forging a multi-polar world in which the U.S. is looking increasingly out of touch.
Monday, April 16, 2012 The U.S. and The Afghan Train Wreck (5 comments)
How the U.S. managed to get itself into this mess needs to be closely examined. The State Department under Hillary Clinton has become little more than an arm of the Pentagon, and the White House has shown an unsettling penchant for resorting to violence. In the meantime Afghanistan is headed for a terrible smashup.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 China: The Frog and the Scorpion
Over the past 30 years, China has gone from a poor, largely rural nation, to an economic juggernaut that has tripled urban income and increased life expectancy by six years. But trying to make a system like capitalism work for all is a little like playing whack-a-mole.
Sunday, March 4, 2012 Syria: A Way Out
After a year of fighting, Damascus has not succeeded in ending the rebellion. It short, it looks like a stalemate, in which case the current campaign to aid the rebels and force Syria's president out is exactly the wrong strategy and one guaranteed to prolong the bloodshed.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 Iran, Israel and the U.S.: The Slide To War (5 comments)
Iran is not a military threat to Israel, but it is a political problem, because Tel Aviv sees Teheran's fierce nationalism and independence from the U.S. and Europe as a wildcard. Iran is also allied to Israel's major regional enemy, Syria--with which it is still officially at war -- and the Shiite-based Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Shiite-dominated government in Iraq.
