My book review in yesterday’s Weekend Australian newspaper:… In The Operators, a great book on the war in Afghanistan, the American journalist Michael Hastings is scathing of reporters who spend their lives praising generals and socialising with them. Hastings exposed the arrogance and childish antics of the then head of US operations in Afghanistan, Stanley…
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Disaster Capitalism and the drug war in north-east Britain
I was recently in the UK researching the “war on drugs” for my forthcoming book, out in 2019, on the global drug war. While I was there my film Disaster Capitalism screened in Newcastle in the north-east of the country. Sponsored by the great group, Recovering Justice, there was a full house to watch the…
Disaster Capitalism film premieres in the US at Columbia University
My film Disaster Capitalism is currently screening across the world. It showed for the first time in the US in late March at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. After the film, there was a Q&A and it later broadcast on the great Disaster Politics podcast (where I appeared last year): Take a listen to the…