He is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and writes as an analyst for a variety of international news agencies, such as Russia Today, Sputnik and the critical online portal TomDispatch.com. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in Eurasia – from the Middle East to Central Asia, covering among other themes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, energy wars, and what he describes as “The New Great Game in Eurasia”, with an emphasis on Russia, China and Iran. Recent books he has authored are Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (2007), Obama does Globalistan (2009) and Empire of Chaos (2014), a collection of columns he has written for Asia Times between 2009 and 2014.