Trump’s false embrace of the war on drugs

Trump’s false embrace of the war on drugs

The Trump administration’s acceleration of the global “war on drugs” is both dangerous and delusional. I gave this comment to the UK outlet, The New Statesman: “The idea of ramping up the drug war in a deluded attempt to stop people consuming drugs has never worked,” says Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist, film-maker and author…

When truth and lies become indistinguishable

When truth and lies become indistinguishable

My review of the fine new book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister Legacy, by Phil Inline in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: The famed 20th-century British foreign correspondent Claud Cockburn was known to use the pithy phrase, “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” It…

The global Jewish Diaspora is at a moral crossroad

The global Jewish Diaspora is at a moral crossroad

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye: Israel‘s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, is worried about the Jews in Britain. In the aftermath of the hyperbolic media and political reaction to pro-Palestine chants at the Glastonbury music festival, Chikli posted on X that the Jewish community must “leave…