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.