US outlet The Hill has published my article based around my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside The Bloody War on Drugs: There’s a dangerous myth in sections of the public that the war on drugs is coming to an end. It’s an idea that as cannabis legalization sweeps across the U.S. and many other…
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London Times positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the UK this week. I’ll be in the UK in early February on a book tour (3 February at Queen Mary University of London and 4 February at the famous Frontline Club). The London Times has just published a positive…
How popular cocaine in the West affects West Africa
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the UK on 9 January 2020. British magazine GQ has published an edited extract of the Guinea-Bissau chapter. Here’s the PDF of the story: How South American drug cartels created a narco-state in West Africa | British GQ
Why we should be alert to the surge of fascist hate
My review of the fine new book by writer Jeff Sparrow, Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre, was published in last weekend’s Australian newspaper. It’s about the 2019 Christchurch attack and the growing rise of fascism. Here’s a PDF of the review: Jeff Sparrow’s Person X marks rise of ecofascism
South American cocaine is ruining Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a West African country suffering hugely from South American drug cartels. It’s a major cocaine transit nation between South America and Europe. Vice has published my major investigation, with heaps of fresh reporting, on the country. It also features heavily in my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs.…
How prohibited cocaine is destroying Honduras
Foreign Policy has published an adapted extract on Honduras from my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. I’ve updated and slightly expanded some details about a country that’s suffering more than most from the US-led drug war. Honduras is a key transit country for South American cocaine. PDF here: In…
Narcotica podcast interview on the global drug war
My new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is now out in the US. I was interviewed on the popular US podcast Narcotica on the research in the book and how the drug war is (too often) self-sustaining.
In solidarity with Julian Assange and Wikileaks
I’m honoured to have signed this statement, alongside some of the world’s best journalists, in support of Julian Assange and the vital work of Wikileaks since 2006: Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecutionunder…
The 2019 Jerusalem Peace Prize speech and Q&A
At the recent ceremony of the 2019 Jerusalem Peace Prize, one of Australia’s leading peace awards that I won, I gave a speech on the themes of the night and then spoke with esteemed journalist Mary Kostakidis about my work on Israel/Palestine, drugs, disaster capitalism, Wikileaks etc. Here’s the video of my speech and Q&A…
Al Jazeera Arabic film on privatised war in Yemen
Al Jazeera Arabic just released a documentary on the brutal war in Yemen, the use of militias and how the conflict is being privatised with violent contractors. I’m interviewed in the film (not because I’ve been to Yemen but due to my extensive work post 9/11 on the use/abuse of private contractors in war). An…