Alexander Zaitchik

There Will Be Krov: Oil-soaked Travels Through Azerbaijan

Blood, Oil, and Borat in Azerbaijan: I stood atop a massive concrete block, several feet off the ground deep in the Balakhani oil fields, just north of Baku, the seaside capital of Azerbaijan, just voted the world’s most polluted city.

Skinhead Violence Rising in Russia

Beheadings posted on the Internet used to be a trademark of Chechen separatists in this part of the world. But on August 12 a video surfaced on several neo-Nazi Russian websites showing the brutal execution of two men from ethnic groups frequently targeted by Russia's ultranationalists--one of whom had his head sawn off with what appeared to be a Russian army knife...

Scheer's 'The Pornography of Power'

A quarter-century has passed since Robert Scheer gave Richard Perle his first cameo in a major book about Washington. The appearance came in Scheer's 1982 examination of nuclear saber rattling in the first Reagan administration, the still-disturbing and sadly out-of-print "With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War"...