Happy to sign the following important letter, partly initiated by my friend Dr. Rodrigo Acuña: Sydney, 24 November 2019 We express our deep concerns about human rights violations taking place in Chile, including the de facto war that billionaire President Sebastian Piñera has unleashed on his people. On 18 October, Chilean students took to the streets to protest…
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US morning TV show Rising talking about the global drug war
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the US this week. I was interviewed yesterday by a popular morning US TV show, Rising, part of The Hill media network, about the book, my research and calls to legalise and regulate all drugs:
ABC Adelaide interview on Pills, Powder and Smoke
I was interviewed this week by ABC Adelaide with host Peter Goers about my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. My interview starts at 1:36:54.
Ongoing injustice of the Halabi case in Israel/Palestine
Back in June, +972 Magazine published my major investigation into the troubling case of Mohammed Halabi, a Gaza resident and World Vision employee who’s caught up in an ugly case of Israel prosecuting him for supposedly supporting terrorism (though there’s no evidence to prove this point). Halabi is one of many Palestinians who are unjustly…
The Australian newspaper positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
A review by writer Simon Caterson in the Australian newspaper last weekend of my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
Let’s establish a Ministry of Happiness
My story in today’s Canberra Times: Australia is facing an epidemic of loneliness, depression and suicide. These problems aren’t being solved by usual medicines or policies. What if federal, state and territory governments established a Ministry of Happiness to investigate the causes and find rational, achievable and funded solutions that looked beyond the typical remedies…
The Saturday Paper praises Pills, Powder and Smoke
One of Australia’s major weekend newspapers, The Saturday Paper, reviews my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, in a piece by Louise Swinn: While our government, under the guise of “compassionate conservatism”, announces plans to drug-test welfare recipients, journalist Antony Loewenstein brings us Pills, Powder, and Smoke, the result…
Kirkus Review gives Pills, Powder and Smoke strong send-off
My new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is released in the US this November. It recently received a strong review in the large Publisher’s Weekly and now another US reviewing bible, Kirkus Review, has written (mostly) positively about the title: A critique of the war on drugs, which, by…
Sydney’s Eastside FM radio on the bloody drug war
During my recent Australian book tour, I was interviewed by Sydney’s Eastside FM Radio host Conor Burke on his show, Thirty Minutes With…, about my new title, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: Part 1 and Part 2