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Antony Loewenstein

Independent journalist, author and film-maker

ABC Australia Sydney interview on the global drug war and its insanities

Posted on September 9, 2019

My interview on ABC Australia Sydney Breakfast program about the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:

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  • My story in today’s @canberratimes, the newspaper in #Australia’s capital city, is my serious proposal for states and nations to establish a Ministry of Happiness to tackle loneliness and depression, epidemics in our societies. Furthermore, based on research in my just released @scribepub book, ‘Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs’, countries would find responsible and legal ways to use psychedelic drugs, like #LSD, #ecstasy and #magicmushrooms, to help treat mental health issues amongst the population. I don’t mention this idea in my book, I wish I did!, but I discussed it with two prominent, progressive politicians in #Australia during my recent tour, @mehreenfaruqi and @fionapattenmp, and they loved it. I’m not the first person to ever suggest this idea but I think its time has come. Link to story in bio. #ministryofhappiness #drugs #legalise #regulation #warondrugs #drugwar #endthedrugwar
  • This is a road built specifically for #Palestinians by #Israel in the occupied #WestBank so that #Jewish settlers don’t have to share the same road as #Arabs. There are many such roads across the #WestBank. Military law for #Palestinians in the #WestBank and civilian law for #Israeli settlers. This disparity permeates every aspect of life there. #occupation #israel #palestine
  • Happy life inside the Givon HaHadasha #Israeli settlement in the #WestBank...if you don’t mind fences, barriers and cameras to monitor #Palestinians living nearby. #occupation #palestine #israel #breakingthesilence
  • Read this and try not getting angry. Inside the #Israeli settlement of Givon HaHadasha near #Jerusalem is a home owned by the #Palestinian Gharieb family. They live in a ‘cage house’ surrounded by high fences erected by #Israel. The family can only access their home and lands via a road and gates built by #Israel. They are literally imprisoned by the illegal settlement. I recently visited here for the first time, shown around by Yeduda Shaul, co-founder of Breaking the Silence, a group of ex #Israeli soldiers. That’s me on the right in the 2nd photo as we all look through the fence to the #Palestinian home. #occupation #westbank #palestine #breakingthesilence
  • Lonely shipping container in the #WestBank #Palestine. #occupation #bluesky #breakingthesilence #israel
  • A recent tour of the occupied #WestBank with Yehuda Shaul, a co-founder of Breaking the Silence, former #Israeli soldiers now campaigning to end the occupation. The main takeaway? Without massive ethnic cleansing, #Israel simply doesn’t have enough #Jews to successfully occupy the entire #WestBank so in the end the demographics are on the #Palestinian side. An interesting and provocative point with many counter arguments. Whatever the outcome, this process will still take decades 🤬. #palestine #occupation #breakingthesilence

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