Antony Loewenstein, The Guardian

Antony Loewenstein

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  • The Nation
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Past articles by Antony:

Legalisation is the only effective way of tackling Britain’s deepening drugs crisis

Waging war on illegal substances has failed, now Labour should lead the way in calling for the removal of charges for possession, says journalist and author Antony Loewenstein → Read More

Once migrants on Mediterranean were saved by naval patrols. Now they have to watch as drones fly over

Experts condemn move to aerial surveillance as an abrogation of ‘responsibility to save lives’ → Read More

White Supremacy in Australia Set the Stage for the Christchurch Massacre

The mainstreaming of hate has become routine, in both the media and politics. → Read More

Peace in Afghanistan? Maybe—but a Minerals Rush Is Already Under Way

And that rush is a direct result of Trump’s pressure on the Afghan government to open up the country to foreign corporations. → Read More

Exporting the Technology of Occupation

Over more than half a century of occupation, Israel has mastered the arts of monitoring and surveilling millions of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself. Israel is now packaging and selling this knowledge to governments that admire the country’s ability to suppress and manage resistance. Israel’s occupation has thus gone global. The Israeli Defense Ministry releases barely any… → Read More

Australia’s Brutal Refugee Policy Is Inspiring the Far Right in the EU and Beyond

In an age of refugee demonization, Australia was well ahead of the curve. → Read More

Only the Law Can Stop Duterte’s Murderous War on Drugs

Local lawyers are fighting to hold the Philippine government accountable. To win, they need international human rights groups to give them more help. → Read More

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

I investigated in Afghanistan, Haiti and PNG. Too often I heard stories of western governments swooping in and dictating terms → Read More

How the 1967 Arab-Israeli war led to permanent occupation of Palestine

Fifty years after the Arab-Israeli war, we look at how the conflict led to five decades of pain for Palestine, with no end in sight. → Read More

Why Jerusalem is vastly different to the fantasy city described in my youth

Many secular, Jewish Israelis hate Jerusalem and try to avoid coming - for them, the comfortable bubble of Tel Aviv is preferable, where the occupation of Palestine is almost completely invisible. → Read More

The eternal beauty and entrenched bigotry in Jerusalem

Many secular, Jewish Israelis hate Jerusalem and try to avoid coming - for them, the comfortable bubble of Tel Aviv is preferable, where the occupation of Palestine is almost completely invisible. → Read More

Who profits as the EU militarises its borders?

The global defence industry is posting record profits as Europe rushes to deal with the refugee crisis, writes Antony Loewenstein → Read More

Cruelty to asylum seekers dressed up as compassion is the scandal that bedevils Australia

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 → Read More

Mike Baird's motherhood statements on Palestine dilute the politics

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 territories → Read More

Will Australia ever have a progressive leader like Corbyn or Sanders?

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 Australia → Read More

Ditching the war on drugs won't be the silver bullet, but it's an essential new pathway

Australia remains disconnected to more enlightened drug policies internationally. No major country, however, dares argue for the complete legalisation of all drugs → Read More

Guinea-Bissau struggles to end its role in global drugs trade

Poverty, political instability and weak institutions allowed South American cocaine cartels in, but with US and UN help the country is trying to fight back → Read More

Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them.

Before its failed occupation of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union discovered that the country was rich in natural resources. In the 1980s, Soviet mining experts drafted maps and collected data that would lay dormant in the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul until the rise of the Taliban. → Read More

Hed TK

Before its failed occupation of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union discovered that the country was rich in natural resources. In the 1980s, Soviet mining experts drafted maps and collected data that would lay dormant in the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul until the rise of the Taliban. → Read More

Possible futures…beyond trafficking and slavery

BTS turns one and begins a project on what the future could look like. Join us to explore utopian horizons, examples of ‘better practice’, and new ways of researching and representing exploitation. → Read More