Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist who’s written for the New York Times and Guardian, film-maker and author of “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe” and “Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs.”

Articles by Antony Loewenstein

Abandoned machinery in Pulacayo, a former mining center in Bolivia

Clean Energy Can’t Have Dirty Roots

Argument

Ketan Joshi, Antony Loewenstein

October 15, 2020, 3:17 PM

A soldier stands guard as cocaine seized on the Atlantic coast of Honduras is incinerated on October 17, 2013.

In Honduras, the U.S. War on Drugs Is Empowering Corrupt Elites

Excerpt

Antony Loewenstein

December 11, 2019, 8:19 AM

A Congolese man digs through mine waste searching for left over cobalt. May 31, 2015.

From Blackwater to Batteries

Argument

Antony Loewenstein

January 25, 2019, 3:06 PM

Nanette Castillo grieves next to the dead body of her son Aldrin, an alleged drug user killed by unidentified assailants in Manila on Oct. 3, 2017.

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

Dispatch

Antony Loewenstein

February 26, 2018, 7:39 AM

Nairobi, KENYA: Kenyan police officers load part of 1.2 tonnes of cocaine before it is incinerated 31 March 2006 in Nairobi. Kenyan authorities destroyed about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine seized in 2004, a record haul that had become the subject of corruption and evidence-tampering allegations. AFP PHOTO/TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

How Not to Fix an African Narco-State

Dispatch

Antony Loewenstein

January 6, 2016, 1:14 PM

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