My book review in The Australian: Rwandan President Paul Kagame is feted across the world, celebrated for rescuing his country after the 1994 genocide and bringing stability to a devastated nation. Kagame’s government has received billions of dollars in aid and weapons for more than 20 years from the US, Israel, Britain and the EU,…
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Israel's biggest anti-BDS conference hits Jerusalem
My story in Mondoweiss… (my photos here): One of Israel’s biggest newspapers staged the country’s first national… conference… against the… boycott, divestment and sanctions… (BDS) movement this week in Jerusalem.… Yedioth Ahronoth… and its website… Ynet… organized a day-long event that featured the majority of leading Israeli politicians and many cultural figures. Fear, paranoia, anger and determination was ubiquitous amongst the panelists and audience.…
ABC Radio Adelaide Australia on Palestine, disaster capitalism and PNG
Yesterday I was interviewed by ABC Radio Adelaide from Australia by host Peter Goers on Israel/Palestine, disaster capitalism and Papua New Guinea:
Interview with US magazine The Source about disaster capitalism
I was recently interviewed by Lulaine Compere for leading American music magazine The Source: The system of capitalism is always being debated. In most countries people are fighting it, seeking to replace it, or trying to improve it. The mere presence of capitalism also brings with it values and ideas that will have huge consequences…
The “war on drugs” in Guinea-Bissau translated into French
Late last year I visited Guinea-Bissau in West Africa to investigate the country’s role as a key drug smuggling hub between South America and Europe. I published a number of stories about it including in… Foreign Policy. Leading French website… Ulyces… is committed to translating investigative stories from across the world and bringing back the tradition of financially…
The UN on trial: debate at the London School of Economics
During my recent time in London I was an expert witness at the London School of Economics during a fascinating event putting the UN on trial. 70 years old and always controversial, prosecution and defence lawyers tried the UN and asked both a jury and large audience if the UN should continue. A number of…
Disaster Capitalism documentary selected for prestigious Hot Docs festival
For over four years I’ve been working on the documentary, Disaster Capitalism. I was shooting footage myself when I started researching the book that eventually became my recent Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe. I partnered with New York film-maker Thor Neureiter in 2012 (and Norwegian film-maker Spencer Austad has shot some amazing…
Debating Disaster Capitalism at the London School of Economics
During my recent visit to London, where I debated the future of the UN at the London School of Economics (LSE), I also discussed my book Disaster Capitalism at the LSE with three articulate and critical women:… Dr Brenna Bhandar, Dr Marsha Henry and… Dr Devika Hovell. I was challenged on my choice of interviewees in the…
Migrant Podcast interview on refugees and immigration
The Migrant Crisis Podcast is an interesting new initiative by two journalists keen to explore the often unreported aspects of the refugee issue. I was recently interviewed in Berlin about asylum seekers, Europe and immigration:
German radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk on privatised immigration
During my recent period in Berlin, Germany, as a Visiting Researcher… at WZB Social Science Centre, I was interviewed by Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) about Europe and Germany’s moves towards outsourcing its refugee “problem” to private corporations. My interview begins at 36.17. Other people on the show are social scientist Manuela Bojadzijev, political scientist Sandro Mezzadra,…