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Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and…
Jeffrey Sommers
Jeffrey Sommers is a professor of the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, along with Senior Fellow at their Institute of World Affairs. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Economy at Babeș-Bolyai University. His work on austerity has found print in dozens of academic publications, and his op-eds have appeared in CounterPunch, Financial Times, the New York Times, Project Syndicate, the Guardian, the Nation, Social Europe, Jacobin and others. He also is the author of the book Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.–Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation.
Protesters poured into the streets of Budapest by the thousands the past few nights with calls for Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban,…
Much ink has been spilt and punditry hot air vented in explaining the failure to recall Scott Walker in this week’s election.…
America has postponed the day of reckoning since the dollar crisis of the early 1970s when the soaring cost of killing Vietnamese…
President George Bush’s first State of the Union Address listed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an “axis of evil.” No doubt…
Ever since the tragic events of the 11th, the media was been quick to shoot-down the “blowback” thesis for explaining the role…
In CIA parlance missions that are “successful†create backlashes. The CIA aptly calls this “Blowback.†At the end of WW II the…
Jeffrey Sommers The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years…
The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after…
Jeffrey Sommers I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by…