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Ideas of Expulsion: Trump, NATO and Spain

28 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them. Self-styled as […]

The Edge of the Map: A Worst-Case Scenario for Australia

28 April 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 5

Dedication: To my wife ‘S’ who has seen the garden through the flames. The View from the Edge There is a dangerous assumption in Australian political culture: that the island is a fortress, that the […]

Lest we forget

28 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 10

Uncle Ray Minniecon is an Aboriginal Elder and a veteran. As he was presiding over the Welcome to Country ceremony at the Anzac Dawn service in Sydney, a small group of people began booing. His […]

State Dept. spills the beans… “Bibi made Trump do it”

28 April 2026 AIMN Editorial 9

By Walt Zlotow Apparently, State Dept. legal advisor Reed Rubinstein didn’t get Trump’s memo to erase Israel’s major involvement in Trump’s failed war on Iran. It’s bad enough the war is a complete failure, accomplishing […]

Is Trump Bullet-proof?

28 April 2026 David Tyler 7

This piece is written as a tribute to the late Martin Amis, who found moral depravity widespread but never ordinary: a thing to be anatomised, mocked, named, and held up to the cold light of […]

The arsonist complains about the smoke

27 April 2026 Michael Taylor 7

I nearly choked on my vanilla slice. There was Donald Trump, sitting down with 60 Minutes, solemnly warning that America has become more violent because of the language used by Democrats. For a moment, I […]

When Silence Becomes Strategy: Hacking, Harassment, and the Quiet Suppression of Online Voices

27 April 2026 Lachlan McKenzie 6

There was a time when losing a social media account was mostly seen as a nuisance. Reset the password. Contact support. Recover access. Move on. That assumption no longer feels safe. In recent years, evidence […]

Youth, local dedication and fresh perspective versus established political insider: Farrer By-election

27 April 2026 AIMN Editorial 12

By Jack Arnold Hi, Michelle Milthorpe Team The Sydney Morning Herald appears to have picked up on shifting voter sentiment in Farrer with its recent article on One Nation candidate, David Farley. There are […]

The Quest for a Definition of Life

27 April 2026 AIMN Editorial 11

By Steve Davis In 1943 the eminent physicist Erwin Schrodinger gave a series of lectures in Dublin that were later published in book form under the title What Is Life? Its success was considerable as […]

Trump to America… “No dough for the Commons. I need it for my criminal wars”

27 April 2026 AIMN Editorial 10

By Walt Zlotow President Trump has a bizarre way of demonstrating his claim of being the Peace President deserving the Nobel Peace Prize. He spent his first term raining down tens of thousands of bombs […]

The Autumn of Things

26 April 2026 AIMN Editorial 4

By James Moore “I was born in the autumn of things.” (Richard Flanagan, Australian author). Our carburetors had to be opened up for the engines to get us up the Front Range. We had just […]

A strange honour

26 April 2026 Michael Taylor 11

The shooting that disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a stark reminder of how quickly public life can turn volatile – gunfire, confusion, and the swift evacuation of Donald Trump and other officials. […]

The Minilateralist Incentive: A Climate Change Conference in Colombia

26 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for international relations that grew from […]

The PM Explains Gas

26 April 2026 David Tyler 8

“This piece is intended as a modest tribute to the genius of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, who together created something that Australian public life has not recovered from losing: a weekly two minutes of […]

Whose Cradle? Whose Grave?

26 April 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 9

How AUKUS is Becoming the Largest Wealth Transfer in Australian History – and Why the Government Won’t Tell You the Cost Dedicated to my wife, who sees through the secrecy and still chooses to fight […]

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