Articles: 2010-08-21T13:48:59Z Copyright (c) 2010, Peter Maass tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2010:08:21 tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2010:articles/2.404 2010-08-21T13:44:58Z 2010-08-21T13:48:59Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2010
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How a mosque proposed for a grubby downtown street became more of a symbol than its opponents ever intended. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2010:articles/2.397 2010-08-05T17:32:16Z 2010-08-05T17:34:18Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com Foreign Policy, August 5, 2010
It's not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn't stand for it. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2010:articles/2.392 2010-06-08T13:54:25Z 2010-06-08T13:59:27Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The Big Money, June 7, 2010
Here’s why a spill-inspired boycott doesn’t make sense. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2009:articles/2.335 2009-09-27T04:08:57Z 2009-09-27T04:22:58Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The Big Money, September 22, 2009
Are petro-execs intrinsically more corrupt than other businessmen? ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2009:articles/2.321 2009-09-08T13:21:21Z 2009-09-11T14:06:22Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com Foreign Policy, September 8, 2009
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil -- and the people and places that make it -- was my obsession. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2008:articles/2.2 2008-07-18T20:30:03Z 2009-08-27T16:33:04Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com Slate, July 18, 2008
What "Generation Kill" Gets Right About Iraq ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2008:articles/2.7 2008-06-25T03:34:37Z 2009-08-27T16:33:38Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com Slate, June 24, 2008
Hint: It's probably not Robert Mugabe ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2007:articles/2.3 2007-12-22T21:42:08Z 2009-08-27T16:34:11Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New York Times Magazine, December 22, 2007
How the scarcity of oil may be making our antibribery laws obsolete. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2007:articles/2.180 2007-03-01T12:14:39Z 2009-08-27T16:34:40Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com Outside, March 2007
Alan Dershowitz, meet Steven Donziger. On behalf of 30,000 inhabitants of Ecuador's remote Oriente region, this New York lawyer is putting it to Big Oil. But will his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit establish a global precedent—or is he just looking for a scapegoat for one of the nastiest messes on earth? ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2006:articles/2.181 2006-10-22T12:20:14Z 2009-08-27T16:35:15Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New York Times Magazine, October 22, 2006
The risky maneuverings on the Korean peninsula ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2005:articles/2.182 2005-12-18T12:21:47Z 2009-08-27T16:35:51Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New York Times Magazine, December 18, 2005
]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2005:articles/2.183 2005-08-21T12:24:20Z 2009-08-27T16:36:21Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New York Times Magazine, August 21, 2005
Saudi Arabia, soaring demand and the theory of peak oil. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2005:articles/2.184 2005-05-01T12:28:47Z 2009-08-27T16:36:49Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New York Times Magazine, May 1, 2005
The counterinsurgency is increasingly being waged by former elite troops of Saddam Hussein's army, with guidance from a U.S. adviser who in the 80's commanded the Special Forces in El Salvador. It’s not a pretty campaign. ]]> tag:s73012.gridserver.com,2005:articles/2.185 2005-01-31T12:30:26Z 2009-08-27T16:37:27Z Lesley M.M. Blume petermaass@compuserve.com The New Republic, January 31, 2005
Dispatch from the Niger Delta ]]>