My book review in The Saturday Paper on the new book by Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives: We’re all complicit. Anybody who uses a laptop, mobile phone, electric vehicle (EV) or tablet has purchased a product that contains cobalt, a rare-earth element. It’s largely unknown to the…
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TRT World TV interview on the latest rise in “tensions” in Palestine
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World on the ramifications after the death of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner Khader Adnan in Israeli custody.
LARB talks The Palestine Laboratory
My forthcoming book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out in May. In a recent podcast by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), acclaimed writer Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, talks about my book and highly recommends it. The segment starts at 26:20.
TRT World TV interview on violence against Al-Aqsa
Following days of Israeli violence against Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, I was interviewed by global broadcaster TRT World.
ABC Radio Triple J interview on Israeli “democracy”
My interview with ABC Radio’s Triple J on the mass protests convulsing Israel and what they say about the state of “democracy” in the country. My interview starts at 4:53.
TRT World TV interview on Israel’s push for Jewish “democracy”
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the mass protests in Israel and faux discussions about Jewish “democracy”.
The Palestine Laboratory arrives shortly
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World, is out in May. It’s published in the US and UK on 23 May with Verso and in Australia and New Zealand with Scribe on 30 May: Here’s the Verso blurb (the Scribe one is very similar but slightly…
The human cost of the “green” revolution
My latest investigation in Declassified Australia is about one of Australia’s richest men, Andrew Forrest, and his attempt to develop green hydrogen in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest wants to make himself a champion of ‘green energy’ by building an US$80 billion mega-dam to develop ‘green’ hydrogen in one of…
TRT World interview on surging violence in Palestine and Israel’s Supreme Court
My interview with global broadcaster TRT World on rising violence in the West Bank and faux Western (and Israeli) concerns about the Supreme Court, a body that’s rarely protected Palestinian rights.
Dangers of an Israeli spy in your pocket
My book review appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: Imagine a weapon so powerful that it makes every person on the planet with a mobile phone potentially vulnerable. It isn’t a scammer or traditional hacker but a new, much more virulent form of intrusion that takes control of all your personal information…