I was interviewed last night by Perth Indymedia on my new book, Profits of Doom, and we discussed privatised detention centres, privatised war in Afghanistan and Iraq and resistance in the form of the #Occupy movement. Listen here.
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Western elite outrage over Syria has little to do with chemical weapons
Forget the crocodile tears of Western leaders. This is about unseating a leader who opposes Western designs in the Middle East (albeit Assad is an incredibly brutal dictator). Here’s Australian intellectual Scott Burchill: How genuine is the West’s concerns about the use of chemical weapons in Syria five days ago? Not very, I suspect. … …
The glorious design benefits of warehousing refugees on Manus Island
What a fine idea (via Get Up!) Using Papua New Guinea as a dumping ground for Australia’s problems is so humane and sensible:
ABC Radio Brisbane on Profits of Doom
Last night I was interviewed on ABC Radio Evenings in Brisbane for a long conversation about my new book, Profits of Doom. It was a unique opportunity to discuss the complicity of Rio Tinto in human rights abuses in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, private contractors in Afghanistan and mis-managed detention centres in Australia:
Direct call for whistle-blowers to reveal what state shamefully denies
My following article appears in today’s Guardian: Revelations of British government intrusion of legitimate media reporting of… American-led, global surveillance… is a call to arms for journalists everywhere. Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus recently claimed that Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden… weren’t whistle-blowers… because they were “politically motivated”, and neither man exposed government wrong-doing (in fact, both did in…
Profits of Doom photo exhibition catalogue
My first photo exhibition opened last weekend in Sydney. The full program is below including all the photos plus prices: Download the booklet to see previews of the photographs …
Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age positively reviews For God’s Sake
The following review by Stephanie Dowrick appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: FOR GOD’S SAKE By Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein, Simon Smart and Rachel Woodlock Macmillan, $32.99 At its best, thinking – and therefore writing and reading – can be transformative. It can allow our vision of life to become more nuanced…
Welcome to the remote Curtin detention centre
The following extract from my book Profits of Doom appears in The Melbourne Review: In this extract from his recently-released… Profits of Doom, Antony Loewenstein visits the remote and jealously guarded Curtin Immigration Detention Centre.… It’s a 30-minute drive through the desert from Derby to the Curtin Air Base. A number of signs warn us to…
War in Syria exposes gross Western hypocrisy
My following piece appears in the Guardian today: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad wasn’t supposed to survive. Since the uprising began in 2011, it’s been long presumed in western political and media circles that he would be deposed or killed and that a new, more US-friendly autocrat would be installed. This hasn’t happened. We know Russia…
How to fight mass privatisation one industry at a time
My following article appears in The Hoopla today: The rate of incarceration of Indigenous Australians is… higher per capita… than it was for … blacks living in apartheid South Africa. The Australian Institute of Criminology released figures this year that confirm the problem. One in four are behind bars and the over-representation of Indigenous people in West Australian…