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Znet Article Sommers: How Walker Really Won Wisconsin

Znet Article, June, 18 2012 Jeffrey Sommers
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Walker was able to capitalize on the frustration over the continued erosion of living standards and insecurity felt by most Wisconsinites

Znet Article Sommers: Distorting Blowback

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Jeffrey Sommers
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Ever since the tragic events of the 11th, the media was been quick to shoot-down the "blowback" thesis for explaining the role of US foreign policy in giving rise to terrorism. Of course, not all this criticism has been honest. The best way to rem...

Znet Article Sommers: Dollar Crisis and American Empire

Znet Article, June, 20 2003 Jeffrey Sommers
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America has postponed the day of reckoning since the dollar crisis of the early 1970s when the soaring cost of killing Vietnamese in order to "save them," along with other expenses of empire, became too high. The tab only rose when the US matched ...

Commentary Sommers: Neoliberalism and the "Axis of Evil"

Commentary, July, 11 2002 Jeffrey Sommers
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President George Bush's first State of the Union Address listed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an "axis of evil." No doubt many states commit evil by employing violence to achieve their ends. Yet, while the above-mentioned three have particularly ...

Commentary Sommers: Blowback

Commentary, September, 12 2001 Jeffrey Sommers
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In CIA parlance missions that are ÒsuccessfulÓ create backlashes. The CIA aptly calls this ÒBlowback.Ó

Commentary Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: LatviaÕs

Commentary, January, 02 2001 Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of LatviaÕs economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nationÕs failures are somehow presented as achievements, as was the ...

Commentary Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: Latvia’s

Commentary, January, 02 2001 Jeffrey Sommers
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The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nation’s failures are somehow presented as achieveme...

Commentary Sommers: Report from Kiev

Commentary, November, 20 2000 Jeffrey Sommers
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I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by incorporating in the Channel Islands, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, or even the USÕs own outlaw banking state of Delaware. Granted, many of the...

Commentary Sommers: Understanding the March 26th Russian Election

Commentary, March, 23 2000 Jeffrey Sommers
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Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whate...

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