Author: Peter Maass

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.

Asking for a Rescue

Seamus Conlan, a photographer at the Palestine Hotel, asked American troops to come to the rescue of journalists there. Click here for his account of that day.

I had been pleading with every American soldier I encountered in the chaos in the surrounding streets to come and protect the international ... (Read more)

Sky News on Marines Entering Firdos

‘Control Room’ On Firdos Square

The documentary “Control Room” featured several Al Jazeera journalists who said the toppling was planned in advance by the U.S. military, to the extent that people were brought to the square to participate in the event. Click here to view that scene from “Control Room.”

Miami Book Fair

Miami, FL
Panel discussion with Heidi Cullen and Gwynne Dyer at 4 pm on Nov 20. At Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, 1st Floor). For more info, click here.

8 Magazine’s Issue on Oil

If you want to see the best collection of oil photos from around the world that I’ve ever seen, pick up the current issue of 8 Magazine. True, the “Empire” chapter of Crude World is excerpted ... (Read more)

Globe and Mail Talk

Toronto, Canada
Breakfast talk on oil, organized by The Globe and Mail, MacKenzie Financial and Ramsay Breakfast Group. Tickets required. Talk starts at 8 a.m., breakfast from 7:30 a.m., on Nov. 9 at One King West Hotel, 1 King Street in downtown Toronto (at Yonge and King). For info and tickets, ... (Read more)

Modern Pillage

Do your cellphone or gas tank contain natural resources that were pillaged from conflict-ridden countries? It’s quite possible, and that’s why law professor James G. Stewart has written an innovative blueprint for prosecuting corporations that pillage (the legal term) natural resources ... (Read more)