This week’s episode is about the failed US-led war in Afghanistan and the recent arrest of former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.
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The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: Inside the US Kidnapping of Venezuela’s President
This week’s episode examines the US imperial designs on Latin America with regional expert Dr Rodrigo Acuna.
The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: Pauline Hanson and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics
This week’s episode is on the surge in far-right populism around the world and how immigration and Islam are being used to flame racism and potentially even worse.
The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: Grace Tame on AI, Power, and the Normalisation of Child Sexual Abuse
The latest episode of my weekly podcast talking about child exploitation, online platforms monetising abuse and how to address this massive and growing problem in an interview with the remarkable Grace Tame.
Australia’s desperate need to be relevant to Trump
My book review appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era Clinton Fernandes Melbourne University Publishing, $17.99 What makes Australia relevant in the 21st century? It’s a question the Albanese government thinks about constantly and wants the Trump administration to know that the decisions made in…
Trump’s false embrace of the war on drugs
The Trump administration’s acceleration of the global “war on drugs” is both dangerous and delusional. I gave this comment to the UK outlet, The New Statesman: “The idea of ramping up the drug war in a deluded attempt to stop people consuming drugs has never worked,” says Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist, film-maker and author…
When truth and lies become indistinguishable
My review of the fine new book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister Legacy, by Phil Inline in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: The famed 20th-century British foreign correspondent Claud Cockburn was known to use the pithy phrase, “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” It…
Intellectual impoverishment in the US
The Trump administration is increasingly restricting who’s able to enter the US for transparently political reasons. I was asked by The Guardian about it:
My testimony to the New South Wales inquiry into anti-Semitism
This year, the government in the Australian state of New South Wales established an inquiry into anti-Semitism. This ancient hatred is certainly a scourge on society but it’s arguable if its prevalence has skyrocketed since the 7 October 2023 attacks (as pro-Israel groups claim). I was asked to give testimony. You can read the testimony…