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Antony Loewenstein on the campaign to defend WikiLeaks and the crucial importance of the Internet in exposing truth

 

Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein

Dr. Caldicott interviews Antony Loewenstein, a Sydney-based journalist who has written for publications around the world, including the Guardian, Haaretz, The Nation, Sydney Morning Herald and many others. He is a media spokesman for the campaign to defend Wikileaks, and discusses Julian Assange’s background. Loewenstein’s 2009 bestselling book My Israel Question is a dissenting Jewish view on the Israel/Palestine conflict. His 2008 book The Blogging Revolution is about the internet in repressive regimes. He is currently working on a book about disaster capitalism in Australia and across the world. For more, listen to
Dr. Caldicott’s 2009 interview with Loewenstein
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One Response to “Antony Loewenstein on the campaign to defend WikiLeaks and the crucial importance of the Internet in exposing truth”

  1. Christina Macpherson Says:

    Very interesting and stimulating discussion.
    Julian Assange has followed in the footsteps of others, who have suffered for their courage in “whistleblowing”.
    Today - Liu Xiaobo is in gaol in China, Mordechai Vanunu is under constraints in Israel.
    Australia had Wilfred Burchett - banned from return to Australia back in the 70s
    Most interesting - Christopher Boyce in USA who simply disappeared from 1977 to late 1980s - and he will not now speak of his experience.

    BUT - it’s getting harder to shut people up. It will be hard for USA to “disappear” Assange. The Internet now offers a new kind of public awareness that might just prevail over even the ruthlessness of governments and their corporate backers.