Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentarian and blogger who has written for The BBC, The Nation, Huffington Post and Haaretz, amongst many others. He is the author of three bestselling books, 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. His latest book is Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe. He's working on a film about disaster capitalism.
. His website is here. Follow him on twitter @antloewenstein
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Antony Loewenstein: Rock solid but uninfluential: that’s Australia’s relationship with the US. And with so many journalists and politicians on the lobbyist drip-feed, is it any wonder we’re going back to war?
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Antony Loewenstein: Personal attacks, backstabbings, bloggers secretly working alongside politicians: New Zealand’s latest political scandal has all the makings of a US drama – but it’s real life
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Antony Loewenstein: I feel like I’ve been writing the same column for over a decade: humanitarian interventions by the west end up destroying the countries they try to save
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Antony Loewenstein: Greece's immigration detention centres are bursting at the seams; many migrants are locked up indefinitely. Golden Dawn, the country's far right party, couldn't be happier
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Antony Loewenstein: The killing of two Australian citizens is not end of the conversation, but the beginning. If these men were threats to national security, then the public deserves to know why
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Antony Loewenstein: The legacy of our foreign military adventures doesn't vanish when we lose interest in it – which is why having journalists ask tough questions is vital
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Antony Loewenstein: Carr’s more eccentric quotes certainly makes it tempting to dismiss his book, but to do so would be missing the vital importance of his remarks on the Israel/Palestine conflict
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Antony Loewenstein: Some of us who have spent years fighting discrimination also feel uncomfortable with laws which hinder free speech – which is why I cautiously support the government's move to amend 18C
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Antony Loewenstein: Is the future an interactive novel read on a Google Glass? One thing's for certain: the transformation of the written word is one of the defining issues of our age
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Antony Loewenstein: The right’s deafening hysteria is a symptom of their insecurity. As the Sydney Biennale furore showed, carefully targeted, lo-fi campaigning gets results
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Antony Loewenstein: Nobody can doubt the brutality of Putin’s Russia. But the way the Ukraine conflict is covered in the west should raise some questions
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Antony Loewenstein: A true reckoning of any military past is incomplete without hearing the testimony of all participants – the soldiers, the civilians, the victims, and those on the ‘other side’
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Antony Loewenstein: A campaign to hold the former Australian prime minister to account wouldn’t be a stunt. It would remind people there is a price to be paid for going to war against all reason
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Antony Loewenstein: After 20 years of steadily increasing cruelty towards refugees, it’s time to admit that we’ve reached a stalemate. Enter the need for a new approach: sanctions against the Australian state
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Antony Loewenstein: The WikiLeaks party's 'fact finding mission' in Syria, and its meeting with Bashar al-Assad, amounts to little more than a propaganda coup – and does nothing to push for true peace
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Antony Loewenstein: Reporters have a choice: to either continue being regarded as untrustworthy, or to be seen as willing to hold the powerful into account. Here are my suggestions for better journalism
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