March 2026

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Loony Bin Rationales: The Continuing War on Iran

6 March 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal pre-emptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land its perpetrators […]

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Good grief… Jesus freaks taking over military indoctrination

6 March 2026 AIMN Editorial 9

By Walt Zlotow As a non-theist I both respect freedom of religion and demand separation of church and state. Most violations of the latter concern relatively minor infractions such as school prayer or posting the […]

The Mushroom Treatment: A Government That Treats You With Contempt Cannot Be Trusted

6 March 2026 David Tyler 13

The Albanese government gives us the mushroom treatment. Keeps us all in the dark and feeds us BS. This week, our small target federal government gave a bravura homage to John Cage. While a US-Israeli […]

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“They are toast”

5 March 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 6

“They are toast”: A Critical Analysis of Pete Hegseth’s Press Conference and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Endless War Introduction: The Performance On 4 March 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon podium […]

‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese

5 March 2026 AIMN Editorial 19

By Helen Reynolds The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship […]

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Inflated Calamities: Security Threats to Anthony Albanese

5 March 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United States Department of […]

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Win for transparency and accountability following FOI discharge

5 March 2026 AIMN Editorial 5

Senator Fatima Payman Media Release Western Australian Independent Senator Fatima Payman is today celebrating a big win for freedom and transparency after the Government discharged the flawed Freedom of Information Bill from the notice paper. […]

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From Subsidies to Stewardship

5 March 2026 Roger Chao 0

Early childhood education and care is entering a new phase of reform in Australia, and the temptation is to treat each new measure as a stand-alone fix. A change to subsidised hours. A wage initiative. […]

Trump’s 3 day ‘quickie’ war turning into a 3 year catastrophe

5 March 2026 AIMN Editorial 1

By Walt Zlotow President Trump bet his entire criminal attack on Iran as a quick 3 day operation which would force Iran’s capitulation. Kill its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the 90 million Iranians would […]

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Trump’s Iran Blunder

5 March 2026 David Tyler 5

Reich Is Right About the Chaos. He Misses the Graveyard It’s Heading For. Robert Reich knows a thing or two about how American power works. He served as Labour Secretary under Bill Clinton, has taught […]

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Australia’s carbon markets risk penalising Indigenous stewardship

5 March 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

RMIT University Media Release Carbon markets rewarding the recovery of degraded environments risk penalising long-term Indigenous stewardship, according to a coalition of experts writing in Nature Climate Change. The article by RMIT University environmental science […]

When did we forget who we are?

4 March 2026 Michael Taylor 12

Australia did not become itself by accident. We are one of the most successful multicultural societies in the world. Walk through any suburb in Melbourne or Sydney and you will hear languages from every continent. […]

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THE PETRI DISH AT THE GATES OF EUROPE: How Gaza’s Environmental Collapse is Breeding the Next Pandemic – and Why the West is Blind to It

4 March 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 2

Introduction: A Statement, a Warning, a Countdown On 2 March 2026, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Ireland issued a formal statement. It documented something that should have been front-page news in every […]

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Bring them home

4 March 2026 Roger Chao 14

On the morning of 16 February 2026, a Kurdish military escort led a convoy out of al-Roj, the camp in north-east Syria where Australian women and Australian children have been held for years in a […]

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The Sentinal Chronicles: Book 1, Chapter 6

3 March 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 1

THE SENTINEL CHRONICLES Book One: In the Beginning Chapter Six: The Return As told by Elohim, The Mother of All Things Transcribed from the Eternal Archives by her Son, The Sentinel Published in The Patrician’s […]

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