Following the very positive of my new book Left Turn from leading independent bookstore Readings this week, here’s an interview between co-editor Jeff Sparrow and myself: Editors Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow discuss… Left Turn… – a collection of essays from our leading political writers, including Larissa Berendht, Christos Tsiolkas, Guy Rundle and more Antony Loewenstein: You…
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Blogging our way to freedom isn’t so easy in 21st century
The following interview appears in the Australian online legal and human rights journal Right Now: Samaya Chanthaphavong spoke to Antony Loewenstein, author of… The Blogging Revolution… about the use of the internet, in particular blogging, as a communicative tool to promote self-representation, democracy and human rights in areas where excessive regimes impose strict censorship over most forms…
Who believes that NATO won’t continue terrorising Afghanistan for years to come?
Despite much of the media coverage recently that suggested America and its Western allies would largely leave by the end of 2014, Thomas Ruttig from The Afghanistan Analysts Network – I spent time with this valuable NGO while in Kabul in April – offers the reality: When President Barack Obama stated at last weekend’s NATO…
Assange interviews #Occupy
Another week and another fascinating The World Tomorrow (past episodes here). This week it’s the #Occupy movement from Britain and America talking capitalism, mass movements and dissident:
This isn’t democracy, no matter what IMF/EU/”sensible” capitalists tell you
Slavoj Žižek in the London Review of Books highlights issues that are covered in Left Turn, namely that so-called austerity is a disaster and vulture capitalism must be resisted: Greece is not an exception. It is one of the main testing grounds for a new socio-economic model of potentially unlimited application: a depoliticised technocracy in…
#LeftTurn gets a thumbs-up
The book I co-edited with Jeff Sparrow is called Left Turn and is released across Australia this week (as well as an e-book edition). I’m pleased to say that the first review, by the head of one of Australia’s leading independent bookstores, Readings, Mark Rubbo, is very positive: I ran into Antony Loewenstein at the…
On the massacre in Houla, Syria
Strong piece by Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker: Sooner or later, every armed conflict in which victory is determined by control of the civilian population—as opposed to, say, physical territory—has its My Lai, its Srebrenica, its Sabra and Shatila. And Syria’s civil war (because that, in the end, is what it is) now…
People of PNG question whether LNG boom will help them
This is the key question for poor nations with resource wealth. Beyond all the energy company rhetoric and government spin, how do average people benefit? This report, in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, asks the same kind of questions I discussed recently with Green Left Weekly: A failure to work with the community could undermine the…
Talking about war without celebrating war
It’s a tough call on mainstream, corporate TV. And so rare. This segment, Up With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, is an interesting attempt. Even talking about the immorality of US-led wars is a concept almost absent from so-called polite debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy