Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an Australian journalist and the author of My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World, co-writer of For God's Sake and co-editor of Left Turn and After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. and the author of “Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe. His website is here. Follow him on twitter @antloewenstein
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After more than two decades of brutalising asylum seekers on the Australian mainland and offshore, this is what Australia represents. These are our ‘values’Dark past: so little has changed in Australia's posture towards asylum seekers
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Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski review – what turns soldiers into monsters?Drunk Romans and drugged Americans: the chemical arsenal used to dull the horror of war
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We took issue with Peter Dutton’s comments about refugees but the greater issue is public acceptance of abuses against asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus
Cruelty to asylum seekers dressed up as compassion is the scandal that bedevils Australia
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Some activists celebrated Mike Baird’s trip to the West Bank as a victory for Palestinian recognition but there remains a lack of honesty in public discourse about Israel’s stranglehold on the Palestinian territoriesMike Baird's motherhood statements on Palestine dilute the politics
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The rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Bernie Sanders in the US shows that renewed passion for politics is still possible ... just not in AustraliaWill Australia ever have a progressive leader like Corbyn or Sanders?
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Australia remains disconnected to more enlightened drug policies internationally. No major country, however, dares argue for the complete legalisation of all drugsDitching the war on drugs won't be the silver bullet, but it's an essential new pathway
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Serco and Broadspectrum (once Transfield) are vulnerable to shareholder pressure thanks to their indefensible complicity in offshore detentionNow's the time to boycott companies that profit from detention
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The private prison industry is something Australia knows well. So why haven’t we produced a Bernie Sanders-style figure to make it a political issue?Sanders' war on private prisons should make Australia feel the Bern
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‘Australia ranks pretty much near the bottom’ for transparency in the fight against Isis, continuing our history of secrecy around ‘operational matters’Australia against Isis: how much do we actually know?
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Australian mining companies are running amok in Africa, and no one back home seems to have taken any noticeWhy is it left to US NGOs to expose Australian mining's wrongdoing in Africa? -
We need new leaders: women of South Sudan's Bentiu camp speakMore than 100,000 now live in this base for internally displaced people in the world’s newest country. Inside the camp, three women tell their stories
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Afghanis say that since the Aynak copper mine was set up, their lives have become plagued with conflict and environmental destructionAfghanistan should leave its copper in the ground to avoid further strife
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Bougainville’s much-loathed Panguna mine may reopen. Australia and the US are contesting Pacific energy assets. What future is there for PNG?PNG, 40 years after independence, can be more than a quarry
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Does the west’s insistence on trading freedoms for stability actually achieve anything except platitudes at the funerals of dead strongmen?You can tell a lot about the west by the way it celebrates autocrats' deaths
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South Sudan food crisis leaves people of Ganyiel desperate for a peace dealIn a country where conflict has left almost 2 million people displaced, the town of Ganyiel offers relatively safe harbour. But food is scarce and child malnutrition rates at critical levels


We need aid that helps locals, not multinationals and bloated NGOs