November 2025

Politics

Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres

3 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is […]

Emu wearing helmet with "The Great Emu Wars".

The Ballad of the Feathered Front

3 November 2025 Roger Chao 1

In the year of nineteen thirty-two, when soldiers yearned for glory past, Their khaki creased with Empire’s pride, their bullets forged to last, They faced no foe from foreign land, no sabres from the east, […]

Silhouette of unequal scales with people, money.

Political Reform in Australia: We Can Break Free and Thrive

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Denis Hay Description Urgent call: why political reform in Australia matters for ordinary Australians and how you can spark real change. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction The truth is, […]

Israeli soldier and two women at barrier.

Israel and the Mercerian Gambit

3 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 0

The Mercerian Gambit: A Timeless Strategy of Control and Its Inevitable Reckoning A recurring, brutal pattern stains the pages of history: a dominant power elevates a minority group to act as enforcers against another subject […]

Speaker yelling energetically beside large flag

Hegseth to Congress: “I have no idea…”

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Walt Zlotow Hegseth might as well have told Congress that: “I have no idea who I’m murdering on the high seas… and I don’t care.” Pete Hegseth’s War Dept held a briefing Wednesday […]

Store checkout screen showing SNAP/EBT acceptance.

Hope and Humility in a Bag

2 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By James Moore “Hunger in America is not a matter of scarcity but of political will. We have the food. We have the programs. What we lack is the national commitment to end the suffering.” […]

Political cartoon depicting control over Canberra.

Don Farrell: The Godfather of Business as Usual

2 November 2025 David Tyler 5

This is not the profile of a Labor minister. This is a portrait of embedded capitalism in clerical collar. Jason Koutsoukis’ latest federal government puff piece in The Saturday Paper, “Meet the man who controls […]

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All we are saying is give peace a chance

2 November 2025 Bert Hetebry 3

One, Two, Three, Four! Everybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a […]

Map of Australia made from banknotes and coins.

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 2)

2 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 3: Building Integrity and Trust Into the System Building Integrity and Trust Into the System In the first two parts, we explored why Australia needs to begin […]

Jockey riding horse with motivational quote.

I wouldn’t bet on it

2 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Maria Millers 🎼 You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away, and know when to run. 🎼 The Spring Racing Carnival has been […]

Politicians in discussion during a parliamentary session.

The Coalition Should Dump Net Zero!

2 November 2025 Rossleigh 11

Really I don’t see any point in the Coalition maintaining any support for net zero. I mean they could hardly go into any future election arguing that they have a “commitment” to net zero. That’d […]

The party at Mar-a-Lago and the price of ‘a bit of fun’

2 November 2025 Michael Taylor 4

While the gates of Mar-a-Lago glittered with pumpkins and laughter echoed through its gilded halls at the “A little party never killed nobody” Halloween bash, a far darker haunting gripped the nation beyond. For millions […]

The Death of Language – The Death of Thinking

2 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 2

A war is being waged not with bullets, but with dictionaries. The battlefield is the public square, the news cycle, and the political speech. The casualty is truth itself, and the weapon of choice is […]

The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away

2 November 2025 David Tyler 11

The Road Not Taken Norway established steep taxation on oil companies. They created Statoil, a state-owned enterprise that took 50 percent ownership of every new oilfield. The Norwegian Labour government, with cross-party support, ensured the […]

Parliament building with multiple international flags.

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 1)

1 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 6

Part 1: Why We Need to Begin Again The Preamble We, the people of Australia, standing upon lands, waters, and skies cared for by the First Peoples since time beyond measure, acknowledge that their sovereignty […]

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