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Michael Hammerschlag's commentary and articles (http://HAMMERNEWS.com) have appeared in NYT, IHT, Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Hawaii Advertiser, Capital Times, MediaChannel, Modern Photgraphy; Moscow News, Tribune, Times, and Guardian; Kyiv Post, Weekly, + Business Ukraine. He spent 2 years in Russia from 1991-94, while the Empire came crashing down and multiple wars raged in the Islamic southern republics. He was a TV reporter, has produced TV documentaries on the Presidential campaign, comedy-news show, and radio reports. After 13 years, he returned to Europe, Russia, + Ukraine in 2007.
His specialties include US + international politics, space exploration, chemistry, nuclear strategy, television, and movies. His commentaries have often accurately predicted events 4-12 months before the fact, including the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and possible end of the Cold War 5 months before the Berlin Wall fell, the 2008 economic collapse 6-12 months before, the disaster of the Iraq invasion, and that Putin would become PM.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Victory for Maidan Protests? The Taking of Ukrainian House On Jan 25, the protesters seized Ukrainian House Exhibition Center; and Klitschko saved the day, talking troops into retreating at 3:40am. But Yanukovich had cracked, offering enormous concessions that seemed unbelievable a day before, Prime Minister to Arseniuk, Dep. PM to Klitschko, return to weaker President Constitution, reform of Election Commission, reversal of outrageous totalitarian laws in 3 hours of negotiation.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014Victory for Maidan Protests? The Taking of Ukrainian House On Jan 25, the protesters seized Ukrainian House Exhibition Center; and Klitschko saved the day, talking troops into retreating at 3:40am. But Yanukovich had cracked, offering enormous concessions that seemed unbelievable a day before, Prime Minister to Arseniuk, Dep. PM to Klitschko, return to weaker President Constitution, reform of Election Commission, reversal of outrageous totalitarian laws in 3 hours of negotiation.
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Revolt in Ukraine: Uprising Challenges Yanukovich Kleptocracy After 3 1/2 years of promising to move towards Europe, Yanukovich (who has looted ~$35 billion from this poor country) canceled 10 year negotiation and kissed up to Russia a week before. Population finally erupted, occupied Maidan + 3 bldgs with incredible 6 week protest/occupation/concert/festival. Several brutal police attacks multiplied crowd and renewed purpose. Huge crowds continue- over 1/2 million protested on Dec 1.
Friday, December 27, 2013Revolt in Ukraine: Uprising Challenges Yanukovich Kleptocracy After 3 1/2 years of promising to move towards Europe, Yanukovich (who has looted ~$35 billion from this poor country) canceled 10 year negotiation and kissed up to Russia a week before. Population finally erupted, occupied Maidan + 3 bldgs with incredible 6 week protest/occupation/concert/festival. Several brutal police attacks multiplied crowd and renewed purpose. Huge crowds continue- over 1/2 million protested on Dec 1.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Capping the Crazy Killers WHAT TO DO ABOUT RAMPAGE KILLERS: 12 Steps that Would Help
Tuesday, December 18, 2012Capping the Crazy Killers WHAT TO DO ABOUT RAMPAGE KILLERS: 12 Steps that Would Help
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Hammerblog- DISASTER AVERTED, KILLING PHIL, GAZA ATTACKS, PALESTINE RECOGNIZED, JULIENNE FRIES, NEW PHARAOH, - ASS'S ADD HAMMERBLOG -Dec, FINAL ELEC RESULTS- DISASTER AVERTED, KILLING PHIL, GAZA ATTACKS, PALESTINE RECOGNIZED, JULIENNE FRIES, Good cop-bad cop, ROVE+COKEHEADS LOST$, CATS, BETRAY US?, KILLING VOTING RIGHTS, REEFER MADNESS, RICEARONI, NEW PHARAOH, NOT ASS'S ADD, Pranked, FISCAL CLIFF- Y2K?
Saturday, December 8, 2012Hammerblog- DISASTER AVERTED, KILLING PHIL, GAZA ATTACKS, PALESTINE RECOGNIZED, JULIENNE FRIES, NEW PHARAOH, - ASS'S ADD HAMMERBLOG -Dec, FINAL ELEC RESULTS- DISASTER AVERTED, KILLING PHIL, GAZA ATTACKS, PALESTINE RECOGNIZED, JULIENNE FRIES, Good cop-bad cop, ROVE+COKEHEADS LOST$, CATS, BETRAY US?, KILLING VOTING RIGHTS, REEFER MADNESS, RICEARONI, NEW PHARAOH, NOT ASS'S ADD, Pranked, FISCAL CLIFF- Y2K?
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Friday, May 25, 2012
THE GOLDEN RING: The Quest for the Presidency Republican contenders + pretenders - all too extreme? Blow by blow flips in states; Profile of Romney and his Mormon exoticism (can he ever win Repub hearts?); and Obama's problems, and supposed betrayal of the base in various suppressive acts; w long interview of fmr DNC chair + Pres. candidate Howard Dean
Friday, May 25, 2012THE GOLDEN RING: The Quest for the Presidency Republican contenders + pretenders - all too extreme? Blow by blow flips in states; Profile of Romney and his Mormon exoticism (can he ever win Repub hearts?); and Obama's problems, and supposed betrayal of the base in various suppressive acts; w long interview of fmr DNC chair + Pres. candidate Howard Dean
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
ABSOLUTE POWER IN UKRAINE In seizing full control of the Courts, City of Kiev, changing the Constitution to the old powerful-President one, prosecuting the opposition, and restricting who can run in local elections; Yanukovich and his Party of Regions have managed to do in 7 months what took Putin 7 years- achieve an absolute monopoly of control in Ukraine. The Supreme Court was demoted, as the High Court of Justice and Constitutional Court were packed
Sunday, January 16, 2011ABSOLUTE POWER IN UKRAINE In seizing full control of the Courts, City of Kiev, changing the Constitution to the old powerful-President one, prosecuting the opposition, and restricting who can run in local elections; Yanukovich and his Party of Regions have managed to do in 7 months what took Putin 7 years- achieve an absolute monopoly of control in Ukraine. The Supreme Court was demoted, as the High Court of Justice and Constitutional Court were packed
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
UKRAINE 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION- radio report Apparently ex-mugger Yanukovich has won the Presidential election- exit polls have him 4 points ahead of Timoshenko, with a chance of fraud from election changes rammed through 4 days ago. She will fight in legal protests; her forces control the Appeals Court, recently threatened by POR. This has given the country back to the oligarchs, and Russia, as dreams of European integration recede and Soviet-style corruption returns
Sunday, February 7, 2010UKRAINE 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION- radio report Apparently ex-mugger Yanukovich has won the Presidential election- exit polls have him 4 points ahead of Timoshenko, with a chance of fraud from election changes rammed through 4 days ago. She will fight in legal protests; her forces control the Appeals Court, recently threatened by POR. This has given the country back to the oligarchs, and Russia, as dreams of European integration recede and Soviet-style corruption returns
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
HEALTH FIASCO Obama's obsession with compromise may doom the health care plan, vastly enriching the medical/drug complex parasites, and breaking the back of the US financial system. The best option- single payer- wasn't on the table, but the most corrupt provision ever- no negotiation for bulk drug prices (est. to waste $60 billion/year) is enshrined.A few right-wing screamers are defeating a 70% popular plan. Congress is bought + paid for
Thursday, August 20, 2009HEALTH FIASCO Obama's obsession with compromise may doom the health care plan, vastly enriching the medical/drug complex parasites, and breaking the back of the US financial system. The best option- single payer- wasn't on the table, but the most corrupt provision ever- no negotiation for bulk drug prices (est. to waste $60 billion/year) is enshrined.A few right-wing screamers are defeating a 70% popular plan. Congress is bought + paid for
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
CAIRO CALM CAIRO: Obama makes a historic speech in the heart of the Arab World June 4th. A Feb 22nd terrorist bombing in Cairo sounded like business as usual... but Cairo is really one of safest cities in world, where one can walk anywhere at 3am; and never hear an anti-Western sentiment in 2 months; partly due to the civilizing effect of Islam, which punishes rude, criminal,or violent behavior, Egyptians are a warm blend of world people
Thursday, May 28, 2009CAIRO CALM CAIRO: Obama makes a historic speech in the heart of the Arab World June 4th. A Feb 22nd terrorist bombing in Cairo sounded like business as usual... but Cairo is really one of safest cities in world, where one can walk anywhere at 3am; and never hear an anti-Western sentiment in 2 months; partly due to the civilizing effect of Islam, which punishes rude, criminal,or violent behavior, Egyptians are a warm blend of world people
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
A Question of Judgment McCain's judgment has been abysmal: he remained in a brutal NV prison for 4 1/2 years rather than go home. His economic advisor, "genius" Phil Gramm wrote the bills that exempted these junk bond derivatives from any regulation- creating this economic meltdown; McCain was a fervent backer of the catastrophic Iraq invasion; Cynical choice of the woefully unqualified Palin endangers nation: We questioned him on the first issue
Sunday, October 12, 2008A Question of Judgment McCain's judgment has been abysmal: he remained in a brutal NV prison for 4 1/2 years rather than go home. His economic advisor, "genius" Phil Gramm wrote the bills that exempted these junk bond derivatives from any regulation- creating this economic meltdown; McCain was a fervent backer of the catastrophic Iraq invasion; Cynical choice of the woefully unqualified Palin endangers nation: We questioned him on the first issue
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Friday, May 9, 2008
THE BUSH BATTERED DOLLAR With 4-6 trillion dollars of rich tax cuts, Bush caused more deficits than all before. Since he began, the dollar has dropped 47%, 8% in just a recent 5 weeks-halving the value of trillions of $ foreign investments. For expat Americans the sickening $´s slide is devastating. The now worthless Repub-deregulated junk mortgage derivatives sold around the world are more than real stock + bonds + markets are hanging by a thread
Friday, May 9, 2008THE BUSH BATTERED DOLLAR With 4-6 trillion dollars of rich tax cuts, Bush caused more deficits than all before. Since he began, the dollar has dropped 47%, 8% in just a recent 5 weeks-halving the value of trillions of $ foreign investments. For expat Americans the sickening $´s slide is devastating. The now worthless Repub-deregulated junk mortgage derivatives sold around the world are more than real stock + bonds + markets are hanging by a thread
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Putin visited the NKVD killing fields of Butovo and expressed sympathy for the tens of millions of victims of the purges and murders, for the first time; Before he had exalted the security agencies and deminished the crimes of his agency; Many places have had genocidal monsters, but only Russia still has fans of them; 35% wuld vote for Stalin now if he were running
Tuesday, December 25, 2007NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Putin visited the NKVD killing fields of Butovo and expressed sympathy for the tens of millions of victims of the purges and murders, for the first time; Before he had exalted the security agencies and deminished the crimes of his agency; Many places have had genocidal monsters, but only Russia still has fans of them; 35% wuld vote for Stalin now if he were running
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
THE INFINITE PUTIN Moscow: Putin is supposed to leave office in March, unbelievably. Appointing unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told the day before + rammed through Congress 2 days later) ends the doubt. Zubkov will be anointed President (+ win), Putin will become Prime Minister, and Zubkov will resign in 6-12 months to let Vlad return as Prez. Massive conflicts of interests in the Kremlin as mini-oligarch ministers run biggest corps in world.
Sunday, November 4, 2007THE INFINITE PUTIN Moscow: Putin is supposed to leave office in March, unbelievably. Appointing unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told the day before + rammed through Congress 2 days later) ends the doubt. Zubkov will be anointed President (+ win), Putin will become Prime Minister, and Zubkov will resign in 6-12 months to let Vlad return as Prez. Massive conflicts of interests in the Kremlin as mini-oligarch ministers run biggest corps in world.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
A PRESIDENT'S CONTEMPT A PRESIDENT'S CONTEMPT - After 7 years of lies, corruption, national security failures, and a disastrous unjustified war, the new Dem Congress is asking questions; Heedless of the Constitution, Bush is giving no answers + with unprecedented arrogance, directed staffers to not testify; Time for inherent contempt charges? Tally of Bush's cost in human lives
Thursday, July 26, 2007A PRESIDENT'S CONTEMPT A PRESIDENT'S CONTEMPT - After 7 years of lies, corruption, national security failures, and a disastrous unjustified war, the new Dem Congress is asking questions; Heedless of the Constitution, Bush is giving no answers + with unprecedented arrogance, directed staffers to not testify; Time for inherent contempt charges? Tally of Bush's cost in human lives
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
RATTLING RUSTING SABERS Moscow: The US's proposed "missile shield" in Eastern Europe has provoked a heated reaction by Russia; Encircled by NATO against promises, facing renewed US nuclear development and bases in FSU, the US canceling ABM treaty + non-proliferation regimes. Cutoffs of gas + oil supplies to neighbors have led them to seek shelter with the West, however destabilizing. Can Russia glean respect without threats?
Thursday, June 7, 2007RATTLING RUSTING SABERS Moscow: The US's proposed "missile shield" in Eastern Europe has provoked a heated reaction by Russia; Encircled by NATO against promises, facing renewed US nuclear development and bases in FSU, the US canceling ABM treaty + non-proliferation regimes. Cutoffs of gas + oil supplies to neighbors have led them to seek shelter with the West, however destabilizing. Can Russia glean respect without threats?
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
DEATH OF A BEAR- from Moscow from Moscow Boris Yeltsin, despite his faults, was a courageous decent leader and a historical giant; Tagged with much that wasn't his fault, the early Boris broke up the largest empire on earth without bloodshed + ended the Cold War that could have killed 500 million
Tuesday, May 1, 2007DEATH OF A BEAR- from Moscow from Moscow Boris Yeltsin, despite his faults, was a courageous decent leader and a historical giant; Tagged with much that wasn't his fault, the early Boris broke up the largest empire on earth without bloodshed + ended the Cold War that could have killed 500 million
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Monday, November 6, 2006
Dem Harry + Louise Ad- Good on Nat. Security???? Democratic Harry + Louise TV/Radio Commercial- Good on Nat. Security????
Monday, November 6, 2006Dem Harry + Louise Ad- Good on Nat. Security???? Democratic Harry + Louise TV/Radio Commercial- Good on Nat. Security????
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
WHY THEY HATE US Israel's savage attack on the Lebanese people and infrastructure crosses all lines of decency and rationality; Threatens to destroy fragile government and peace; All admit Lebanese government is weaker than Hezbollah, so how can they stop them?; Invading Lebanon again is like America invading Vietnam
Saturday, July 22, 2006WHY THEY HATE US Israel's savage attack on the Lebanese people and infrastructure crosses all lines of decency and rationality; Threatens to destroy fragile government and peace; All admit Lebanese government is weaker than Hezbollah, so how can they stop them?; Invading Lebanon again is like America invading Vietnam
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
CALIFORNIA ENERGY RIPOFF WASN’T JUST CRIME, BUT TERRORISM 6 power companies, led by Enron, by manipulating power production, raised rates up to 90 times; CAL paid in one day what it had been paying in 3 months; Used this vast scam to punish Gore voting state (+12%) and depose Dem governor; First of 6 reasons to impeach; Secret Cheney Energy Task Force likely plotted Iraq war
Saturday, May 27, 2006CALIFORNIA ENERGY RIPOFF WASN’T JUST CRIME, BUT TERRORISM 6 power companies, led by Enron, by manipulating power production, raised rates up to 90 times; CAL paid in one day what it had been paying in 3 months; Used this vast scam to punish Gore voting state (+12%) and depose Dem governor; First of 6 reasons to impeach; Secret Cheney Energy Task Force likely plotted Iraq war
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Saturday, April 22, 2006
NSA DIRECTOR ODOM DISSECTS IRAQ BLUNDERS "The invasion wasn't in our interests, it was in Iran's interest, Al Qaida's interest. Seeing America invade must have made Iranian leaders ecstatic.... Iraq is now open to Al Qaida, which it never was before- it's easier for terrorists to kill Americans there than in the US.. Neither our leaders or the mainstream media recognize the perversity of key US policies now begetting outcomes they were designed to prevent.
Saturday, April 22, 2006NSA DIRECTOR ODOM DISSECTS IRAQ BLUNDERS "The invasion wasn't in our interests, it was in Iran's interest, Al Qaida's interest. Seeing America invade must have made Iranian leaders ecstatic.... Iraq is now open to Al Qaida, which it never was before- it's easier for terrorists to kill Americans there than in the US.. Neither our leaders or the mainstream media recognize the perversity of key US policies now begetting outcomes they were designed to prevent.
