Peter Maass

@maassp

Senior editor at The Intercept. Author of 'Love Thy Neighbor' and 'Crude World.' Views my own (of course).

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    19 Mar 2018

    1) I'm not sure how to make people remember or care that 15 years ago the United States invaded Iraq, setting off a war that continues to this day, with several hundred thousand Iraqis dead, millions turned into refugees. I covered the invasion for the New York Times Magazine.

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    Sep 14

    An outrage-inducing piece of accountability journalism and a remarkable tale of human resilience. In 2017, an Iranian professor came to the U.S. on a visa to visit his children. By 2020, he was fighting for survival in squalid ICE detention center.

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    Sep 14

    “Now who/will tell the children/fairytales?” -Jorie Graham

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  4. Sep 15

    "I would not dare predict that it could happen in America, which is so different from Europe, but I would suggest that we avoid placing bets on any predictions, whether optimistic or pessimistic." --Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (epilogue), 1996

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  5. Sep 15

    "Violent breakdowns can occur in virtually any country during times of economic hardship, political transition or moral infirmity; such troubles create opportunities for the manipulators...

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  6. Sep 15

    And this: "The dynamics of fear and loathing between people of different backgrounds--ethnic or religious or economic--are not as unique or complex as we might like to believe...

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  7. Sep 15

    I wrote this in 1996: "A residue of caution has stayed with me after the time I spent in Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Belgrade and Geneva; the darkness of men and governments was quite strong in those places, and it cannot be forgotten easily." --Love Thy Neighbor (epilogue)

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  8. Sep 15

    (Also the Kosovo diaspora and others from the former Yugoslavia.)

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  9. Sep 15

    And as I noted last year, we need to pay more attention to the stories told by people who are directly connected to historic events. The following thread includes links to articles and other accounts from the Bosnia diaspora.

    The Swedish Academy, in its Nobel selection, ignored the voices and views of the people who survived the genocide that Handke dismisses in his books on Bosnia. Let's all listen to these voices -- they're *far* more important than literary critics in Sweden, Germany or Austria.
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  10. Sep 15

    From last year, here's a far-from-complete accounting of the people who helped me:

    Here are some of the voices from ex-Yugo that I've relied on:
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  11. Sep 15

    Thank you, Edin. It would have been impossible to write these stories without the expertise and encouragement I got from the Bosnia community, including you of course.

    Congratulations to on this award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Deadline Club. Maass researched & wrote a series of incisive reports on how the came to embrace a web of denialist lies about the Bosnian War spun by Peter Handke.
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  12. Sep 15

    This book, about the sexual harassment/abuse scandal at the Swedish Academy, hasn't been published in English but I read a Google translate version and it's *so* powerful and infuriating, equal to "She Said" (about Harvey Weinstein). I hope it's published in the U.S. soon.

    Replying to @maassp @RogerDHodge and 2 others
    please read The Club by to know how f- dumb and willfully ignorant to lots of people's suffering the jurors are
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  13. Sep 15

    Noting proudly that won 2 awards last night & was a finalist for a 3rd. won a feature prize for his profile of Scott Warren, I won an arts prize for my Peter Handke stories, & a team of TI reporters were finalists for public service. cc

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  14. Sep 14

    This is an honor. Many thanks to my editor and 's editor in chief, . In memory of the victims of genocide in Bosnia.

    In Arts Reporting, the winner is of for his series on Peter Handke, “A Prize for Lies.”
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  15. Sep 14

    The only silver lining of these cursed days is that they have given us Jorie Graham's poetry.

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    Sep 14

    20 years ago wrote a book that played a foundational role in understanding a body of practice and creating the field of scholarship now known as transitional justice. Here's the intro to 20th anniversary symposium on her book. (My contribution out soon.)

    Symposium on Transitional Justice: An Introduction
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    Sep 11

    "To America‘s leaders, our lives have value only insofar as they can be used to create a desired panic." by

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    Sep 11

    When New Yorkers’ pain can be mobilized for vengeance, it matters. When there’s no one to kill in its name, it doesn’t. We learned that definitively this year.

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    Sep 11

    3,000 dead on 9/11 meant everything. 200,000 dead of Covid means nothing. Here's why. by

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  20. Sep 10

    "At the heart of every nationalist mythology is some kind of a rebirth, usually bloody and requiring sacrifices, preferably of the weak and the doubtful." --

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  21. Sep 10

    We're shaped by what we see. As a journalist in Bosnia, I saw a Serb conspiracy theory (the Muslims are going to kill/enslave us) lead to genocide against the Muslims. The Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon channels the lessons from that war.

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