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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.

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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 18, 2013
Egypt: A Coup In The Wings? Are the statements by Egypt's opposition concerning the possibility of a military takeover simply a political maneuver aimed at forcing the Morsi government to be more inclusive, or are they laying a foundation for a coup? Loose talk about an Army takeover in Egypt is a little like hand-feeding a crocodile: a good way to lose a body part.
Chaos International Awards, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 1, 2015
Dispatch Awards 2014 And the awards go to...Over a period of 12 years, the U.S. detonated some 67 nuclear warheads with an aggregate explosive power of 42.2 megatons in the Marshalls. The Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal found the U.S. liable for $2 billion in damages, but so far Washington has only paid out $150 million.
Russian Bear, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 2, 2016
Baiting The Bear: NATO and Russia From Moscow's point of view, the U.S. is continuing to spread its network of anti-missile systems in Europe and Asia, which the Russians see as a threat to their nuclear force (as does China). And as far as "reneging" goes, it was the U.S. that dumped the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, not Russia.
Refuelling of ships at Exercise Malabar 2017., From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Rolling Snakes Eyes in the Indo-Pacific Asia looks like a pretty scary place these days. A right-wing Hindu fundamentalist government in India and a revanchist Japanese Prime Minister are allied with an increasingly unstable administration in Washington to surround and contain the second largest economy in the world.
Awards, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 2, 2018
2017 Dispatches "Are You Serious"Awards Each year Dispatches From the Edge gives awards to individuals, companies and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 22, 2017
The Tortured Politics Behind the Persian Gulf Crisis Erdogan is the Middle East leader who most resembles Donald Trump: He shoots from the hip and holds grudges. The difference is that he's far smarter and better informed than the U.S. president and knows when to cut his losses. The Russians have been carefully neutral, consulted with Turkey and Iran, and have called on all parties to peacefully resolve their differences.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 25, 2013
The White House's Flawed Korea Policies The North is well aware of the fate of the "axis of evil": Iraq was invaded and occupied, and Iran is suffocating under the weight of economic sanctions and facing a possible Israeli or U.S. attack. From North Korea's point of view, the only thing that Iraq and Iran have in common is that neither of them developed nuclear weapons.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 16, 2012
The U.S. and The Afghan Train Wreck 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.
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 27, 2013
The Kurds: Opportunity and Peril Autonomy for the Kurds is out of the bag and not about to go back in, regardless of what the final outcome in Syria and Turkey are. Sooner or later, Iran will have to confront the same issue that governments in Damascus, Ankara and Baghdad now face: recognition and autonomy, or war and instability.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 28, 2017
How Trump Could Blunder Into War with China Washington charges that the Chinese are playing the bully with small countries like Vietnam and the Philippines, and there is some truth to that charge. China has been throwing its weight around with several nations in Southeast Asia. But it also true that the Chinese have a lot of evidence that the Americans are gunning for them.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 22, 2015
Toward A New Foreign Policy "The American Century" Has Plunged the World Into Crisis. What Happens Now? U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges. Is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course?
U.S Army tests the future Hypersonic weapons system, From YouTubeVideos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Military Spending and the Pandemic There is a hypersonic arms race going on among China, Russia and the US, and, according to the Pentagon, the Americans are desperately trying to catch up with its two adversaries.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 6, 2014
Europe: The Sky's Not Falling No, Britain is not about to toss its immigrant population into the sea. No, France's Marine Le Pen is not about to march on the Elysee Palace. And, as repulsive as the thugs of Hungary's Jobbik Party and Greece's New Dawn are, it was the continent's left to whom the laurels went in last month's poll.
Italy's austerity measures causing closure of archaeological sites., From YouTubeVideos
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 27, 2020
How Austerity and Anti-Immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country's death toll has passed China's, and scenes from its hospitals look like something out of Dante's imagination.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 19, 2018
The Great Game Comes to Syria The appointment of National Security Adviser John Bolton, who openly calls for regime change in Iran, has to have sent a chill down the spines of the Iranians. What Tehran needs most of all is allies who will shield it from the enmity of the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia. In this regard, Turkey and Russia could be helpful.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 13, 2017
The Long Term Threat to Europe Isn't Le Pen. It's Capitalism. Macron's new centrist party, En Marche, did win big in France's recent legislative elections -- but mostly due to the anti-Le Pen vote. His program of austerity, restraints on unions, and corporate tax cuts is not embraced by most French people.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia in talks for alliance to oust al-Assad, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Middle East Plots Why is the Israeli military talking about a war with Lebanon? The border is quiet. There have been a few incidents, but nothing major. Hezbollah has made it clear that it has no intention of starting a war, though it warns Tel Aviv that it's quite capable of fighting one. The most likely answer is that the Israelis are coordinating their actions with Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Trump and Un Pushing Buttons, From YouTubeVideos
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Nuclear War: A Thousand Buttons The very nature of nuclear weapons requires that the power to use them is decentralized and dispersed. And while it is sobering to think of leaders like Kim and Trump with their finger on the trigger, a nuclear war is far more likely to be started by some anonymous captain in an Ohio-class submarine patrolling the Pacific or a Pakistani colonel on the Indian border.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 19, 2013
"Are You Serious?" Awards 2013 Every year Dispatches From The edge gives awards to news stories and newsmakers, both national and international, that fall under the category of "Are you serious?" Here are the awards for 2013.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic you don't have to be next to the ice to want to be a player. China may be a thousand miles from the nearest ice floe, but as the second largest economy in the world, it has no intention of being left out in the cold. This past summer the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon made the Northern Sea Passage run, and Beijing has elbowed its way into being a Permanent Observer on the Arctic Council.

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