I was recently interviewed in London by Neil Denny from the wonderful and popular Little Atoms podcast. We talked about my new book Disaster Capitalism:
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Explaining disaster capitalism and why it's a threat
After my recent UK and US media tour for Disaster Capitalism, I wrote a post for my publisher Verso: Antony Loewenstein, author of… Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe,… rounds-up a series of op-eds in response to the ever-worsening global emergency of crisis-profiteering. Loewenstein’s analysis of contemporary news items offers a coherent frame for understanding…
Open Democracy publishes Disaster Capitalism extract on UK privatised immigration
Open Democracy has published an edited extract from the Britain section of my new book, Disaster Capitalism: “I am very passionate about our values and building this company… not to make a profit. If profit is an immediate byproduct, then… that’s wonderful. If you can make it have an impact on society,… people’s… lives and make it fun, crumbs,…
A few thoughts about journalism, media and why it's (often) broken
The following conversation is published on US website Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein came through New York recently to promote his new book… Disaster Capitalism.… He later related to me that at two NY events, he had gone off on journalists as a profession. I wanted to draw him out, and so we exchanged emails. You said you’d developed…
Britain's Novara Media TV interview on Disaster Capitalism
Novara Media is one of Britain’s most interesting new independent media outlets with a large reach (I was interviewed by its radio station recently). Here’s an online video interview on my new book, Disaster Capitalism, that tackles journalism, privatised immigration and democracy:
Rolling Stone interview about disaster capitalism
I’ve been interviewed by US Rolling Stone magazine by journalist Elisabeth Garber-Paul: Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein recently made the 30-hour trip from South Sudan to New York City after spending the better part of a year in the world’s newest nation, which he calls both “broken” and “a pretty fascinating place.” “It’s easily dismissed as…
London radio Novara FM on Disaster Capitalism
Yesterday I was interviewed in London by Aaron Bastani from Novara FM. Perceptive and curious, Novara Media is one of Britain’s most interesting and progressive media outlets. During the interview we spoke about my new book, Disaster Capitalism, the state of the media and funding investigative and independent journalism:
How European companies are making money from the refugee crisis
My piece in the UK Independent “Indy Voices”: Monetising the waves of refugees surging into Europe is not the most common human response to tragedy. One of the greatest mass movements of people in modern history has caused a huge outpouring of… solidarity… with those on the move. But it has also created anger, suspicion and… violence. A…
Some home truths about dictatorial South Sudan
My following letter was published this week in South Sudan’s newest newspaper, The National Today, and the editors both published my photo without permission or accreditation and edited out my criticisms of the country’s brutish government. Furthermore, some of the edits below don’t make sense but I’ll leave them in for your reading pleasure. Welcome…
On Bernie Sanders and ending privatised prisons and detention camps
My column in the Guardian: US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is… on the warpath… against private prison contractors. “Corporations should not be allowed to make a profit by building more jails and keeping more Americans behind bars,” he wrote on… Facebook… in August. The following month he introduced a bill in the Senate, the justice is not for…