Journalist/Author
Maushard has worked in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sandinista Nicaragua, East bloc Hungary, occupied Palestine, Mubarek’s Egypt, Boston, Portland, Chicago, Peoria, and more.
“Unfortunately, I’ve experienced all too much of the same,” Noam Chomsky wrote in reply to my November 16, 2016 HuffPost commentary accusing the Anti-Hillary Left of negligently tossing the election to Trump.
The Harvard Crimson remarked, “a superb (young) journalist’s depiction of his jaunt through North America’s most bitter war zone” about 1990 book Made In Managua: a nonfiction account of one journalist’s trip through a telling place and time (Quimby Archives, Boston, MA).
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2001, LAWRENCE J. MAUSHARD
“I think that it’s very important to view what happened yesterday with clarity of thought and a vision to the future. In all probability, the people behind the attack had many reasons for hating the U.S. But at its core, the major point to their grievances most probably is America’s continued support of Israeli injustice toward the Palestinians.”
NOVEMBER 1, 2004, OSAMA BIN LADEN
“I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.”