My column in the Guardian: The Australian maintenance, construction and detention centre company Transfield Services officially… changed… its name last month, to Broadspectrum. The firm claimed it was “a better representation of the company’s business”. Clearly there was an element of necessity too: the corporation’s founding members… withdrew permission… to use the Transfield name and logo over ongoing allegations…
Showing all posts tagged disaster capitalism
Broadcast on CPAN Book TV of Disaster Capitalism NYC book launch with Jeremy Scahill
During my recent New York book tour I launched my book, Disaster Capitalism, at the wonderful Housing Works bookstore in conversation with journalist and author Jeremy Scahill. The event was recorded by C-SPAN Book TV and broadcast this weekend in the US and online. Video is here.
Little Atoms podcast on Disaster Capitalism
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:
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,…
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…
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…