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A very successful medical revolution

30 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By Christopher Kennedy In a pretty pathetic ‘exclusive’ in today’s Guardian we hear the same old rubbish about cannabis. From people trying to make a living out of making cannabis sound like an evil drug […]

RBA Interest Rate: Who Really Pays for Inflation?

29 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 3

By Denis Hay Description Why RBA interest rate rises punish ordinary Australians – and what the federal government could do instead to control inflation. Australia has been told a familiar story: inflation is too […]

Execrable Drivel: The US State Department’s Cuba Report

29 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-streaked US State Department report on Cuba is anything to go by. Reading this travesty of […]

Devil in the detail of data centre energy rules: Climate Council

28 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 1

Climate Council Media Release Please find below Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie’s response to today’s communique from the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council (ECMC) meeting: “It’s encouraging that most states and territories agree that […]

Karim Khan: Sex, Politics, and the ICC

28 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion, been less cautious in making a journey to […]

Deep Truth Persona 5.3: The Instrument Is Ready

28 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By Steve Davies Following on from my previous AIMN piece; Ending the Silence, I’m pleased to let AIMN readers know that, after months of work, Deep Truth Persona 5.3 is ready. For readers new […]

The Quiet Surrender of our Nation’s Sovereignty

28 July 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 7

It is our melancholy duty to inform Australians of the quiet surrender of our nation’s sovereignty I. Introduction: The Mask and the Man What they see is a Prime Minister. What I see is a […]

ABS Back-down on Census Needs a Public Inquiry

27 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 3

By Brian Morris The root cause of false and misleading data being collected by the ABS – over many decades – was to have been finally rectified with a new and ethical question for […]

The impossible job of independent media

27 July 2026 Michael Taylor 8

Independent media – now popularly known as citizen journalism – has never been about making everyone happy. If it were, every independent site would publish weather forecasts, recipes and pictures of puppies. Nobody would complain, […]

Race Discrimination Commissioner welcomes decision in Hanson v Faruqi appeal

27 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 9

Australian Human Rights Commission Media Release Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner has welcomed the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court, which upheld the finding that One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson unlawfully breached the […]

The economically rational consumer & the concept of the ‘firm’

27 July 2026 Dr James Moylan 2

The economically rational consumer & the concept of the ‘firm’ (An extract from ‘A semiotic interrogation of law & economics’ by Dr James Moylan) The contemporary social discourse is crowded with economically rational consumers and […]

The nasty truth about Small Nuclear Reactors’ toxic fuel and toxic wastes

27 July 2026 Noel Wauchope 10

A lot of enthusiastic guff goes on about the joys of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs). They don’t say much about the fuels that SMRs require. So – just for fun, let’s take a look […]

The Pedagogy of Power: The State as a Socialising Agent

27 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 4

The Pedagogy of Power: The State as a Socialising Agent Part 2 of Trust-Fall – The Crisis of Representation, Dissent and State Legitimacy By Nick Chugg Governments teach through their conduct. Citizens may be told […]

Republicans still too terrified to employ the ‘Goldwater Rule’

27 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 6

After 150 days, Republicans still too terrified to employ the ‘Goldwater Rule’ to save world economy from Trump’s Iran madness By Walt Zlotow Republican Congresspersons and Cabinet members prefer to bow down to a president bent […]

Out on the Road Like Some Lowdown Joe

27 July 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By James Moore (My first summer of hitchhiking and wandering the U.S., I encountered, with my buddy Butch, a lonely character walking the plains. He was, like my friend, a veteran of American wars, and […]