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Peter Maass

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Peter Maass

@maassp

Editor & writer. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” & “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept. Posting & scrolling mostly at the blue place.

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Peter Maass
@maassp
Mar 20, 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.
Peter Maass
@maassp
Apr 7, 2023
The Iraq war is passing from America's memory but not mine. I don't know whether we'll ever accept moral & legal responsibility but until a reckoning comes, the truth must be kept alive. Here's what I witnessed 20 years ago today at the Diyala Canal outside Baghdad. (Thread)
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Sep 13, 2022
High school senior who just defeated a far-right candidate in Idaho: “We used to have climate strikes, like back in ninth grade, and they would come with AR-15s,” he said, bringing rifles to intimidate “a bunch of kids protesting for a livable future.”
Idaho’s Far Right Suffers Election Loss to 18-Year-Old Climate Activist
From theintercept.com
Peter Maass
@maassp
May 15, 2022
The biggest advocates of white replacement theory are the Murdoch family, owners of Fox News. Tucker Carlson is their employee. My story on this from 2018:
Fox News Is Poisoning America. Rupert Murdoch and His Heirs Should Be Shunned.
From theintercept.com
Peter Maass
@maassp
Mar 20, 2019
We remember things so we don't forget them. On this day, the 16th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we should remember the so-called experts who urged on the war. They have not withered away. They are still with us, still telling us what we should do.
Peter Maass
@maassp
May 13, 2024
A genocide ago…
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Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
May 13, 2024
Israeli right wing activists blocked aid trucks which were on their way to Gaza today at the Tarqumiya crossing in the West Bank
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Apr 9, 2023
Twenty years ago today I stood in Baghdad's Firdos Square and watched U.S. Marines tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein. The toppling was portrayed by the American media as a symbol of Iraq's joyous liberation but the reality of what happened was quite different. (Thread)
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Dec 13, 2016
As Aleppo falls to Assad and Russia, amid reports of civilian massacres, this is what cable news offers to America.
CNN
@CNN
Dec 13, 2016
"We've been friends for a long time": Kanye West and President-elect Trump appear together at Trump Tower CNNpolitics.com
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Nov 5, 2018
Fox News has poisoned, with its far-right conspiracy theories, far more Americans than Breitbart, Gab, 4chan, Alex Jones, etc. But Rupert Murdoch and his heirs -- who control Fox -- have not been held responsible. My latest story is about them.
Fox News Is Poisoning America. Rupert Murdoch and His Heirs Should Be Shunned.
From theintercept.com
Peter Maass
@maassp
Sep 18, 2023
A huge Pakistan-U.S. scoop from @ryangrim and @MazMHussain on Pakistan's democracy being undermined by the U.S. for the sake of getting more weapons to Ukraine.
U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal
From theintercept.com
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Apr 20, 2020
It might be easy for some people to laugh at these losers but if you were in the Balkans in the early 1990s you would have a hard time not worrying about this.
Miguel Marquez
@miguelmarquez
Apr 20, 2020
Contingent of heavily armed individuals in back of an old military vehicle just showed up. They said they’re all independent. No affiliation.
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Peter Maass
@maassp
Apr 7, 2023
Replying to @maassp
It was 20 years ago that America invaded Iraq on the false pretense that it possessed weapons of mass destruction (it did not). At least several hundred thousand Iraqi civilians were killed in the invasion and its long aftermath of occupation and war.
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Peter Maass
@maassp
May 17, 2021
1) I was Glenn Greenwald’s colleague at The Intercept until he resigned last year and accused me and other editors of censoring him. That was ridiculous, so I let it pass. But Glenn is now attacking and imperiling my workmates. It’s time to say a few words.
Peter Maass
@maassp
Sep 27, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford said that a few weeks after Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her, she encountered Mark Judge at the Potomac Village Safeway where he worked. Judge had laughed during the assault, Ford said. In his memoir, "Wasted," Judge writes about working at the market in 1982.