The following book review of my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, appears in the literary journal Kill Your Darlings and is written by Kylie Maslen: Dramatic news reports constantly warn us about the dangers of drugs, from the ‘ice epidemic’ to suburban drug busts to the increasing use of…
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Pills, Powder and Smoke released as audio book
My new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, has been released as an audio book read by the acclaimed, veteran Australian actor John Derum. It’s available on whatever platform you use for audio books. Here’s a sample:
ABC Australia Radio PM interview on radically rethinking the never-ending war on drugs
My interview on ABC Australia’s leading current affairs program, PM, on the global drug war and my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
Why Australians are increasingly looking for serious drug reform
My interview in the Canberra Times about the war on drugs and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. Both stories appeared on the same day written by Blake Foden: Article one: Antony Loewenstein wants to set things straight about the global war on drugs. The author of Pills,…
Ethical ways to end the brutal war on drugs
My interview in the Guardian about my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, by Jenny Valentish: In August 2018 there was a flurry of headlines about the hypocrisy of middle-class cocaine users, dubbed “the woke who do coke”. Hot takes were prompted by the comments of UK Metropolitan police commissioner…
Al Jazeera English documentary broadcast, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis
Al Jazeera English has just broadcast my documentary, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis, made with South African film-maker Naashon Zalk. Commissioned by the global network’s leading documentary program, People and Power, this was a 9-month investigation in Nigeria and beyond into the devastating effects of the addictive opioid drug tramadol: West Africa – and particularly its…
TRT World interview on Israeli attacks across the Middle East
Today I was interviewed on global broadcaster TRT World about increasingly brazen Israeli attacks across the Middle East (forgive the brief technical issues):
My new book, “Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs”, is out
I’m excited to announce the release of my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. It’s now out in Australia (via Scribe publications), India later in the year (with Pan Macmillan India and a special foreword for this edition), November in the US and January in the UK. It’s a…
Disaster Capitalism documentary now streaming on Amazon
My 2018 documentary, Disaster Capitalism, on individuals, companies and governments making money from misery in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Haiti and the US, is now available to stream on Amazon. The film is directed by Thor Neureiter, produced by Media Stockade and written/produced by me. It’s only for US viewers now but will soon be available…
When anti-Semitism is weaponised to silence criticism of Israel
The anti-Semitism “crisis” consuming the UK Labour party is largely an attempt to silence serious criticism of Israel IMHO. I was asked to comment on just one angle of this story by Phil Miller in the UK newspaper The Morning Star: Labour has been labelled “undemocratic” after the party revoked a press pass for a…