Pills, Powder and Smoke
Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland
Conversation
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Susan Forde will interview Antony Loewenstein on what he discovered through more than ten years of investigative journalism on the topic. Presented in partnership with Griffith University
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Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: inside the bloody war on drugs. He's the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake.