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It would be easy to make fun of President Bush’s recent fiasco at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del…
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.
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“…The Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military…
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