A fearless look at the Israel–Palestine conflict, this study investigates how large a factor Zionism plays in this intractable conflict. Spanning the globe from New York and London to Paris and Melbourne, this source discusses Israel–Palestine issues that stem from suicide bombings, military aggressions, and passionate public debates by Holocaust survivors, Zionist organizations, Arab advocates, newspaper columnists, and politicians. This study also considers the historical rationale for Zionism, including the centuries of virulent European anti-Semitism from which it grew, and asks how relevant and sustainable Zionism is in the 21st century.

My Israel Question

Politics & Social Sciences

Loewenstein, Antony

Politics & Government

Melbourne University Publishing

This searching examination explores how the internet is threatening the rule of particularly repressive governments—including China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Addressing internet censorship, citizen journalism, and the growing popularity of blogging as a means for change, this in-depth analysis provides unique insight into these cultures as well as the latest media technologies.

The Blogging Revolution

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Leading a forensic discussion of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, this survey examines the prospects of the Middle East peace process amidst the new geo-political context. Acknowledging how the election of Barack Obama brought hope to millions around the world and generated renewed diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, this reference also highlights how the Israel–Palestine conflict remains mired in brutality and occupation. Taking into account the election of a far-right Israeli government, the indiscriminate war on Gaza, and the illegal expansion of West Bank colonies, this examination depicts how this combination suggests a bleak future for both Israelis and Palestinians while demonstrating how the public debate about the issue in the U.S., United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia is suggesting alternative ways of tackling the crisis. Mapping the ways in which this conflict is ferociously discussed, this investigation also outlines where the hope lies for resolution to the brutal impasse.

My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict

History

Middle East

Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody war on drugs

Bolinda Audio

Antony Loewenstein's bestselling My Israel Question generated a storm of controversy, critical praise and robust public debate when it was first published. Loewenstein's forensic discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues here in a fully updated and expanded new edition, examining the prospects of the Middle East peace process in the new geo-political context. The election of Barack Obama brought hope to millions around the world and has seen renewed diplomatic efforts in the Middle East. Yet the Israel-Palestine conflict remains mired in brutality and occupation. The election of a far-right Israeli government, the indiscriminate war on Gaza and the illegal expansion of West Bank colonies suggest a bleak future for both Israelis and Palestinians. However, public debate about the issue, in the USA, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, is suggesting alternative ways of tackling the crisis. Now, Antony Loewenstein maps the way in which the conflict is ferociously discussed and where the hope lies for resolution to the brutal impasse.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism—the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain’s immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites.

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

Reference

Verso

How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein’s reporting is a dark history of multinational corpoarations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world’s most valuaable commodity.

Verso Books

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an "enemy" population, the Palestinians. It's here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with &nbsp;secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. &nbsp; From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi's phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe's most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.

Business & Money

Industries

Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different parts of the world, the backing of dictatorships, and surging drug addiction globally. And now the Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces against any softening of the conflict.. Pills, Powder, and Smoke investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA agents, and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines, and Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war, why it’s so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it. In reporting on the frontlines across the globe ― from the streets of London’s King’s Cross to the killing fields of Central America to major cocaine transit routes in West Africa ― Loewenstein reveals how the War on Drugs has become the most deadly war in modern times. Designed and inspired by Washington, its agenda has nothing to do with ending drug use or addiction, but is all about controlling markets, territories, and people. Instead, Loewenstein argues, the legalisation and regulation of all drugs would be a much more realistic and humane approach. The evidence presented in this book will persuade many readers that he’s right.

Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody War on Drugs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Scribe UK

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My Israel Question

The Blogging Revolution

My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict

Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody war on drugs

My Israel Question

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody War on Drugs