A friend in Israel sent this to me today. We’ve been warned: Australian politicians, senior bureaucrats, journalists, academics, military and business leaders have for many years been taking paid-for trips to Israel to observe the Israeli model in action, how it works, and to take home lessons that could be applied by Australia. After many…
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My #LeftTurn chapter on media complicity in war post 9/11
This appears in Crikey’s Pure Poison blog today: Following is an extract from “Media War Junkies Unite”, an essay by Antony Loewenstein from… Left Turn: Political essays for the new Left… which is edited by Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow, and which was released last week. *** The decade since 11 September 2001 has seen a litany of…
#LeftTurn reviews start coming in
The book has only been out for a few days but already responses are appearing. Leading independent bookstore Readings has made the title Book of the Month and Week (after already featuring interviews and other coverage): ”˜Perhaps the best kept political secret of our time is that politics, as a democratic undertaking, can be not…
Israel lobby friend and Murdoch man defames Arabs in a good day’s work
It can’t be easy for a Murdoch editor to find new ways to damn Palestinians but the… Herald Sun’s Alan Howe constantly comes through with the goods. Here’s his latest that proves once again that the Zionist lobby, who sends people like Howe to Israel, creates individuals who loathe Arabs even more than before they left:…
#LeftTurn co-editor Jeff Sparrow talks Left stuff
This morning my co-editor on… #LeftTurn, Jeff Sparrow, spoke on Melbourne 3RRR Breakfast radio about our recently released book and why it’s vital to hear alternative perspectives on war, peace, the economy and climate change:
How Australia sees its responsibilities to Assange; ask Washington
Philip Dorling, Sydney Morning Herald today: …Ever anxious to demonstrate its loyalty to the US alliance, the Australian government has not uttered any objection to the prospect that Assange may be prosecuted for espionage.
Speaking in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks
This week’s British Supreme Court decision over Julian Assange was yet another step in the farcical legal case against the Wikileaks publisher. Australian and American politicians have shown over the last years a disturbing desire to shut Wikileaks down. Let them try. They will fail. There was a large rally in Sydney this week in…
David Hicks speaks out, as a man who knows US torture, in support of Wikileaks
Last night in Sydney around 200 people protested outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. I spoke about the importance of an organisation that deeply challenged the power elites in both politics and the media. A key speaker was David Hicks, the former innocent Guatanamo Bay detainee…
Christos Tsiolkas takes his #LeftTurn
Today the book I co-edited with Jeff Sparrow, Left Turn, is officially released. Buy one, buy ten, tell your friends! An extract of the chapter by famous writer Christos Tsiolkas appears in the Adelaide Review this month: One of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences I’ve had in my life came watching an episode of… John Safran…
#LeftTurn editors talk to each other
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…