Conn Hallinan

Once loosed, the dogs of war range where they will.

Thanks in part to U.S. announcement of deployment of an ABM system in Japan, the smoldering between Japan and China could burst into open flames.

The bad dream unfolding in Mali is the consequence of the West’s scramble for resources in Africa, and the wages of sin from the recent Libyan war.

A beautiful new film charts the course of nonviolent resistance the world over.

Cockburn was famously fierce and could be absolutely scathing to those who disagreed with him, but his politics were always coherent and deep-seated.

Dresden and drones are a false equivalency.

In a sense, we are already at war with Iran.

The Turkish F-4 that Syria shot down was testing Syria’s radar.

The Spanish bailout is yet another witches brew of cutbacks, layoffs, and austerity.

Asia is currently in the middle of an unprecedented arms race that is sharpening tensions in the region and competing with efforts to address poverty and growing inequality.

The Latin American countries are forging a multi-polar world in which the U.S. looks increasingly out of touch.

For an administration marked its nuanced policies, virtually every decision the White House has made on Afghanistan has been a disaster.

Amid slowing growth and an awakening population, can China avoid the scorpion’s sting of capitalism much longer?

Can the current Irish resistance movement turn the tide against the austerity madness that has gripped the European continent?

To the West, Syria is a tale of two tales.

If Israel or the United States starts a disastrous war with Iran, it will be because someone thought it was a good idea.

The Israeli right’s assault on democracy could remove the obstacles to an attack on Iran.

Why is the New York Times still concealing the role that the United States played in the 1965 Indonesia coup?

Is cyber war everything it’s cracked up to be, and is the United States really so behind the curve in the scramble to develop cyber weapons?

Highlighting foreign policy and defense stories that beggar credulity to the utmost.