My “debate” on global broadcaster TRT World’s The Newsmakers on the drug war and why all drugs should be legalised and regulated. These ideas are inspired by my recent book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. The other panelists are former DEA head, Mike Vigil, and Portuguese expert on harm minimisation,…
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Will the Australian election give voice to Palestinians?
My latest investigation for Declassified Australia (including my photos from Gaza in 2017): It’s one of the longest trials of a Palestinian in Israeli history with no end in sight. Israel charged a Gaza-based, World Vision Australia employee, Mohammed El Halabi, in 2016 with illegally diverting millions of dollars of aid money to Hamas. Six years on, Halabi remains in detention…
Public speech against Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine
I was invited by Stop the War Coalition Sydney to speak at yesterday’s rally on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. I spoke about NATO, its disastrous wars in Libya and Afghanistan, the war on terror and advocating peace:
Supporting Palestinian rights can be risky
Back in 2007, I co-founded Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) with academic Peter Slezak, a space to support more critical voices on Israel/Palestine. One of our early signatories was Moss Cass, a senior minister in Gough Whitlam’s government in the 1970s and one of the world’s finest environment ministers. He recently died at 95 and…
RT interview on stealing Afghan resources
Following my recent Declassified Australia investigation into Afghan resources, I was interviewed on RT’s Going Underground.
Sky News interview on Ukraine, Russia and imperialism
The unprovoked and illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine is a shocking event. I was interviewed on Sky News to discuss it along with NATO, imperialism, energy prices and climate change.
The war on drugs from a Slovakian view
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, was recently released in a Slovakian edition. It’s been reviewed in Slovakia’s biggest newspaper, SME, by Lubomir Jasko, and it’s very positive. Here’s the Google Translate version: Anti-drug campaign or war against people? Antony Loewenstein, The War on Drugs, translated by Samuel Marec,…
Melbourne’s Triple R radio interview on Declassified Australia
Late last year, I co-founded the new media outlet, Declassified Australia. We aim to critically report on Australia’s real relationship with the world. It’s often not pretty. Today I was interviewed on Melbourne’s Triple R about it all.
The enduring legacy of disaster capitalism in its many forms
The stubbornness of disaster capitalism is legendary. I recently spoke to the New York-based podcast series News Beat on the war in Afghanistan and how many people made a fortune during the 20-year US occupation. The show has done a follow-up episode just on disaster capitalism and in it I discuss mining, Blackwater founder Erik…
Pakistan wants to end the drug war
One of Pakistan’s biggest newspaper, The Express Tribune, positively reviews my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: Released last year, Antony Loewenstein’s book titled, Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside The Never-Ending, Bloody War On Drugs is a detailed investigation into the individuals, officials, activists and traffickers caught up in the long-spanning…