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Crude Politics. I've got a new piece up on Open Democracy this week about the BTC pipeline, which runs from Azerbaijan, through Georgia, and on to Turkey and the West. The oil has been flowing since May; not surprisingly, it's a big deal in tiny, unstable Georgia, which has never seen a project even a fraction of this size. It might also be, however, an environmental disaster in the making. Read all about it.

Detroit summer. Just posted some of my work from Detroit last month. I was there over the 4th of July weekend, shooting and reporting a bit each day. This year, the holiday celebrations went off more or less without a hitch: There were no snipers on the rooftops. The fires continue, though. One building I photographed had just burned the previous night -- not necessarily arson but just an accident -- crackheads, people said.