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    • After Zionism

      One State For Israel And Palestine

      Saqi Books, 2024
      After Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the most pressing issue of our time. In essays that challenge our assumptions, distinguished contributors with distinct and divergent perspectives dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians. Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Israeli…
      The Palestine Laboratory

      How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World

      Verso + Scribe, 2023
      How Israel makes a killing from the occupation. Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable…
      Pills, Powder and Smoke
      Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs

      Inside the Bloody War on Drugs

      Scribe, 2019
      Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed…
      Disaster Capitalism
      Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe

      Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe

      Verso, 2015
      Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav­els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on or­ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and…
      Profits of Doom

      How Vulture Capitalism Is Swallowing The World

      Melbourne University Press, 2013
      Vulture capitalism has seen the corporation become more powerful than the state, and yet its work is often done by stealth, supported by political and media elites. The result is privatised wars and outsourced detention centres, mining companies pillaging precious land in developing countries and struggling nations invaded by NGOs and the corporate dollar. Best-selling…
      For God’s Sake
      For God's Sake: An Atheist, A Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim Debate Religion

      An Atheist, A Jew, A Christian and A Muslim Debate Religion

      MacMillan, 2013
      Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn’t religion cause most of the conflict in the world? And Where do we find hope? We are introduced to different belief systems – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – and to the argument that atheism,…
      Left Turn

      Political Essays For The New Left

      Melbourne University Press, 2012
      The 2008 financial crisis opened the door for a bold, progressive social movement. But despite widespread revulsion at economic inequity and political opportunism, after the crash very little has changed. Has the Left failed? What agenda should progressives pursue? And what alternatives do they dare to imagine? Left Turn, published by Melbourne University Press in…
      The Blogging Revolution

      The Blogging Revolution

      Melbourne University Press, 2008
      The Blogging Revolution, released by Melbourne University Press in 2008, is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe why live and write under repressive regimes – many of them risking their lives in doing so. Antony Loewenstein’s travels take him to private parties in Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia…
      My Israel Question
      My Israel Question

      My Israel Question

      Melbourne University Press, 2006
      The best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question – on Jewish identity, the Zionist lobby, reporting from Palestine and future Middle East directions – was released by Melbourne University Press in 2006. A new, updated edition was released in 2007 (and reprinted again in 2008). The book was short-listed for the 2007 NSW…
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The mother country

Posted on November 10, 2005
Parliamentary democracy is not dead.

Perhaps Australia’s leading parliamentarians will one day realise that independence isn’t a dirty word.

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