https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/author.php?id=2&type=Alexander Zaitchiken-usCopyright &copy; 1997-2026 Infocrat, LLC. All rights reserved.https://www.freezerbox.com/images/ads/freezerbox/bomb_88x31.gifhttps://www.freezerbox.com8831https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554Senator Jay Rockefeller's shameful post-9/11 record. PoliticsFri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=554https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=553Blood, oil, and Borat in Azerbaijan.TravelWed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=553https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530Richard Rhodes, Richard Perle, and the Man Who Saved the World. PoliticsFri, 14 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=530https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527An <I>Economist</I> correspondent's not-so-cautious case for a repeat of the costliest and most dangerous conflict in human history. MediaMon, 26 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=527https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523Fifty years after the world's first major nuclear accident, radiation is still leaking into Russia's Ural Mountains -- and beyond. EnvironmentWed, 17 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=523https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511If the <I>Washington Post's</I> John Solomon keeps hitting the Edwards campaign below the belt, the answer may be yes. MediaSat, 11 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=511https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500A <I>Freezerbox</I> interview with missile defense.PoliticsTue, 12 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=500https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499European johns line up to tap Russia's carbon reduction potential.EnvironmentFri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=499https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490U.S. plans for missile defense systems in Eastern Europe could be a dangerous tipping point in relations with Russia. PoliticsFri, 30 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=490https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=486Evangelicals seamlessly incorporate anti-immigrant rhetoric with their traditional odes to God and country.ReligionThu, 01 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=486https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485How Congress can start turning back the minute-hand on the Doomsday clock. PoliticsThu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=485https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453John Hersey's <I>Hiroshima</I> turns 60. MediaTue, 08 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=453https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=442With the sand people in Rajasthan, where tots tie knots.SocietySun, 28 May 2006 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=442https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440Remembering leader Rudy Giuliani's historic leadership of the Middlebury '05 commencement ceremony.PoliticsFri, 26 May 2006 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=440https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438A week waiting for the regicide that wasn't.PoliticsMon, 15 May 2006 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=438https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=423A conversation with Rick Strassman on the sad state of psychedelic research, Albert Hoffman at 100, and the possibly cosmic pineal gland. ScienceMon, 27 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=423https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418Al Qaeda finally goes for the jugular. PoliticsSun, 05 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=418https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406Maoists, misery and mayhem in modern India.PoliticsFri, 20 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=406https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388Ditch the donkey, break out the globe.EnvironmentMon, 14 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=388https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382Remembering E. F. Schumacher in the age of Peak Oil.EnvironmentThu, 20 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=382https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366Plus, we can rest easy: Rumsfeld shoots down London bombing-Iraq link.PoliticsWed, 17 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=366https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358A quarterly climate-change screed.EnvironmentWed, 03 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=358https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345A nuclear 9/11 isn't inevitable, but apathy isn't helping the odds.PoliticsSat, 25 Jun 2005 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=345https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336Global Warming and the politics of sleep.EnvironmentWed, 02 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=336https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332How to bring down a giant, one blood vessel at a time.PoliticsMon, 31 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=332https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Long-Rod Penetrator.PoliticsWed, 12 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=329https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328Conservative evangelical Christians are getting worried about the fate of God's creation. Can the greening of the GOP base happen fast enough to derail the party's scorched-earth plans for Bush II?EnvironmentThu, 23 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=328https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318Counting down to November 2 in southwestern Wisconsin.PoliticsMon, 01 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=318https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314Can the GOP protect the national-security lie until November?PoliticsWed, 29 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=314https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=308Talking politics with illustrator Steve Brodner.CultureWed, 01 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=308https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298We know there's soldier depression and anger in Iraq--so where's the dissent?PoliticsSun, 01 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=298https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=292Al Jazeera like you've never seen it before.FilmFri, 21 May 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=292https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291The road to Abu Ghraib runs through Texas.PoliticsMon, 17 May 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=291https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289An interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.MediaMon, 03 May 2004 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=289https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285The Cold War is over. The nuclear threat is not.PoliticsMon, 01 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=285https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281The celestial endgame of Halliburton logic.PoliticsWed, 04 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=281https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262Six Prague activists envision a world without cars.EnvironmentTue, 04 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=262https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261Smoking hash at the Prague castle, and other presidential memories.PoliticsSun, 26 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=261https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250A look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--past, present and uncertain future.PoliticsTue, 12 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=250https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245The last thing Prague needs is on the way.PoliticsWed, 30 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=245https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.PoliticsTue, 27 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=221https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218It's the end of the world as we know it--and Dick Cheney feels fine.EnvironmentSun, 25 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=218https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202Thoughts and facts on Europe's far-right.PoliticsTue, 21 May 2002 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=202https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197Was last month's failed coup in Venezuela Bush's mini-Bay of Pigs?PoliticsWed, 01 May 2002 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=197https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164What do terrorism, global warming, 21st century resource wars and Dick Cheney have in common?EnvironmentThu, 01 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=164https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154If answered honestly, then trigger happy military attacks cannot possibly be the answer to the second urgent question: What Now?PoliticsMon, 17 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=154https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=236An inside account of motorsport's dusty underbelly.SportsThu, 12 Jul 2001 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=236https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113It's 2001 and the Dick Cheney White House still doesn't believe in global warming. God help us all.EnvironmentSat, 24 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=113https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130Marc Rich versus the Iran-Contra pardons. Where was the outrage?PoliticsTue, 27 Feb 2001 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=130https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107Bush's hawk's nest is screeching for a full-blown National Missile Defense system. Start paying attention to this one. The stakes could not be higher.PoliticsSun, 21 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=107https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105Sure conservatives dress funny, talk funny and think funny. Now we know they protest funny too. Freezerbox looks back at the Miami Golfers riot of 2000.PoliticsFri, 01 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=105https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102America's responsibility for the collapse of the recent climate conference at The Hague taught the world an important lesson: neither to be beaten nor joined, the USA should just be ignored.EnvironmentTue, 28 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=102https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=94During most of the last decade, baseball has survived--and even thrived--against the odds in Serbia. Alex Zaitchik reports on that interesting intersection of sports and politics.CultureThu, 16 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=94https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90Our Balkans correspondent reports on his afternoon with the KLA and Miss Albania 2000.PoliticsMon, 06 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=90https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=59If you're an investor, you probably aren't reading this. You're watching MSNBC. You also probably have tunnel vision. I know. I used to be one.CultureMon, 12 Jun 2000 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=59https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42As the world attempts to make sense of a historic week of protest in Washington, who can help but wonder: Are we entering another decade of social unrest and mass activism? And do we get to win this time?PoliticsFri, 14 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=42https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41The neo-conservative camp of the Republican Party is calling for a massive arms build up and a more aggressive US role in world affairs, including "rogue regime rollback." If the neo-cons regain power, GOP foreign policy under their influence could look a lot like it did in the early 1980's. Be afraid. Be very afraid.PoliticsThu, 06 Apr 2000 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=41https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20George W. Bush has turned the state of Texas into a toxic dump. He knows virtually nothing about the world or the important issues of the day. He is not considered mentally equipped by the brains of his own Party. He is fully in the pocket of the most polluting industries on Earth. He defines 'arms control' as the ability to hit your target. And he just might be in the drivers seat at the dawn of the next American Century. Valium, anyone?PoliticsMon, 13 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=20https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24John McCain has a lot of independents charged up with his straight talking GOP insurgency. Talk of "McCain Democrats" has the Gore camp sweaty. Alex Zaitchik is afraid all the excitement has blurred our collective sanity.PoliticsThu, 24 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=24https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17The media reform bill up for vote in the Czech Parliament this spring is a hornet's nest of issues, each of which promises to influence Czech society far beyond the bill's pragmatic role as just another EU requirement.MediaWed, 14 Apr 1999 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=17https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=13Who won the Post Office's "Celebrate the Century" ballot? Are these voters the real arbiters of history? Or, did Ayn Rand get it right when she wrote a 1970 piece called "Apollo and Dionysus." She declared the two forces coined by Nietzsche to represent "the fundamental conflict of the age", are Cape Kennedy and Woodstock--embodying both principles in "pure, extreme, isolated form."SocietyTue, 15 Sep 1998 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=13