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Conn Hallinan
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.
The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia By Benjamin Dangl AK Press, 2007 $15.95 There was a time…
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AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined on the phone right now by Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of…
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U.S. Sec. Of State Condoleeza Rice’s recent visit to Jakarta was the concluding act in the Bush Administration’s five-year drive to whitewash…
In a 2002 Le Monde Diplomatique article titled ‘Constructing Catastrophe,’ Israeli journalist Amon Kapeliouk challenged one of the central myths about the…
There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg’s New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior’s former National Security Advisor, when the…