The book has only been out for a few days but already responses are appearing. Leading independent bookstore Readings has made the title Book of the Month and Week (after already featuring interviews and other coverage): ”˜Perhaps the best kept political secret of our time is that politics, as a democratic undertaking, can be not…
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Israel lobby friend and Murdoch man defames Arabs in a good day’s work
It can’t be easy for a Murdoch editor to find new ways to damn Palestinians but the… Herald Sun’s Alan Howe constantly comes through with the goods. Here’s his latest that proves once again that the Zionist lobby, who sends people like Howe to Israel, creates individuals who loathe Arabs even more than before they left:…
#LeftTurn co-editor Jeff Sparrow talks Left stuff
This morning my co-editor on… #LeftTurn, Jeff Sparrow, spoke on Melbourne 3RRR Breakfast radio about our recently released book and why it’s vital to hear alternative perspectives on war, peace, the economy and climate change:
How Australia sees its responsibilities to Assange; ask Washington
Philip Dorling, Sydney Morning Herald today: …Ever anxious to demonstrate its loyalty to the US alliance, the Australian government has not uttered any objection to the prospect that Assange may be prosecuted for espionage.
Speaking in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks
This week’s British Supreme Court decision over Julian Assange was yet another step in the farcical legal case against the Wikileaks publisher. Australian and American politicians have shown over the last years a disturbing desire to shut Wikileaks down. Let them try. They will fail. There was a large rally in Sydney this week in…
David Hicks speaks out, as a man who knows US torture, in support of Wikileaks
Last night in Sydney around 200 people protested outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. I spoke about the importance of an organisation that deeply challenged the power elites in both politics and the media. A key speaker was David Hicks, the former innocent Guatanamo Bay detainee…
Christos Tsiolkas takes his #LeftTurn
Today the book I co-edited with Jeff Sparrow, Left Turn, is officially released. Buy one, buy ten, tell your friends! An extract of the chapter by famous writer Christos Tsiolkas appears in the Adelaide Review this month: One of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences I’ve had in my life came watching an episode of… John Safran…
#LeftTurn editors talk to each other
Following the very positive of my new book Left Turn from leading independent bookstore Readings this week, here’s an interview between co-editor Jeff Sparrow and myself: Editors Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow discuss… Left Turn… – a collection of essays from our leading political writers, including Larissa Berendht, Christos Tsiolkas, Guy Rundle and more Antony Loewenstein: You…
Blogging our way to freedom isn’t so easy in 21st century
The following interview appears in the Australian online legal and human rights journal Right Now: Samaya Chanthaphavong spoke to Antony Loewenstein, author of… The Blogging Revolution… about the use of the internet, in particular blogging, as a communicative tool to promote self-representation, democracy and human rights in areas where excessive regimes impose strict censorship over most forms…
#LeftTurn gets a thumbs-up
The book I co-edited with Jeff Sparrow is called Left Turn and is released across Australia this week (as well as an e-book edition). I’m pleased to say that the first review, by the head of one of Australia’s leading independent bookstores, Readings, Mark Rubbo, is very positive: I ran into Antony Loewenstein at the…