Yesterday I appeared on ABC TV’s The Drum talking about refugees, terrorism, comedy and the “war on terror”:
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Ticking time bomb in Gaza
My feature story in the Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age… (alongside my short film and photographs): Umm al-Nasr, Gaza Strip: Everybody in Gaza fears another war. After the 2014 conflict, which killed 2250 Palestinians and 70 Israelis, little has changed on the ground for the territory’s 2 million residents. A local psychiatrist, Khaled Dahlan, recently told me…
On the importance of hearing critical views in our time
I was pleased to be asked to sign the following statement in support of free speech and against blacklisting for “unpopular” views on Syria (though it’s equally relevant for Palestine, the “war on terror” etc). I sign alongside Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Reza Aslan and many others: The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania…
US-funded, Cold War propaganda still echoes today
My just published article in the Los Angeles Review of Books: Finks How the CIA Tricked The World’s Best Writers By… Joel Whitney Published 01.10.2017 OR Books 336 Pages After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, fear gripped the United States, and it wasn’t only conservatives who wanted to publicly show that they were committed…
What's happening to Afghanistan's natural resources
My investigative feature in The Nation: Before its failed occupation of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union discovered that the country was rich in natural resources. In the 1980s, Soviet mining experts drafted maps and collected data that would lay dormant in the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul until the rise of the Taliban. These charts documented…
Chicago radio, This Is Hell!, on Disaster Capitalism
I’ve been interviewed by Chicago radio program, This Is Hell! (“Manufacturing Dissent since 1996”) about my book Disaster Capitalism:
RT TV interview on Disaster Capitalism and terrorism
I was recently interviewed by RT’s Oksana Boyko in London on the Worlds Apart TV program. We discussed my book, Disaster Capitalism, the arms industry and global terrorism:
A few thoughts about journalism, media and why it's (often) broken
The following conversation is published on US website Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein came through New York recently to promote his new book… Disaster Capitalism.… He later related to me that at two NY events, he had gone off on journalists as a profession. I wanted to draw him out, and so we exchanged emails. You said you’d developed…
Huffington Post Live on Disaster Capitalism
Yesterday I appeared on Huffington Post Live in New York talking about my new book, Disaster Capitalism,… and the film in progress of the same name with director Thor Neureiter:
How little we know about the Western war against ISIS
My story in the Guardian: We don’t know whether the Australian military has killed or injured civilians in Iraq, and if so, how many. Since Canberra joined the US-led mission against the… Islamic State (Isis) on 8 October 2014, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has provided barely any information about its operations. So the new report…