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Protesters poured into the streets of Budapest by the thousands the past few nights with calls for Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban,…
Jeffrey Sommers
Jeffrey Sommers is a professor at Raritan Valley Community College. He has over 30 publications in several countries and has taught in the US, the Netherlands, Germany, and Latvia. Additionally, he has given academic presentations in Russia, Lithuania, Brazil, Guyana, & Martinique. He has been a Fulbright student and Fulbright scholar. He is associated faculty at the Riga Graduate School of Law, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He also serves as co-editor of History Compass and is book-review editor of H-World. Before engaging his academic he was a labor organizer with the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Associations, the American Federation of Teachers, and a recruiter with the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute.
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…
Jeffrey Sommers Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen…