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Lord Mandelson: Trapped in the Epstein Web

6 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Jeffrey Epstein certainly got around. He moved virally, galloping through the cells of the establishment. What was more, he was permitted to. Dead and buried, the financier, convicted paedophile, sex trafficker, eugenics follower, and the […]

Sorrowful day for peace largely ignored throughout America

6 February 2026 AIMN Editorial 4

By Walt Zlotow The New START Treaty between Russia and US expires today, and America largely yawned. Big story on mainstream news? Faggedaboudit. Ask the person on the street about New START and he might […]

Black Fog – If We Can’t Think for Ourselves: Must We Muzzle and Bastardise Tertiary Education and Our Public Institutions?

6 February 2026 Jon Chesterson 13

‘Antisemitism’, a disguised undercover Zionist attack on Australian Universities – political analysis and warning to Albanese – don’t do this! The Black Fog – If people can’t think for themselves, if they have no independent […]

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DePetris views America’s 66 years of degrading Cuban people largely from America’s perspective, not American imposed Cuban suffering

5 February 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By Walt Zlotow The Chicago Tribune’s foreign affairs columnist Daniel DePetris continues to do a disservice educating Tribune readers on America’s illegal, immoral and criminal foreign policies degrading, destroying numerous countries. (Note: The Chicago Tribune is my […]

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The Corporate Insiders on the RBA Board and How to Break Their Grip

5 February 2026 David Tyler 5

The Corporate Insiders on the RBA Board and How to Break Their Grip Philip Lowe may have tip-toed into a cushy retirement among the well-clipped hedges and manicured lawns of leafy Randwick, but his RBA […]

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How Advertising Saturation Shapes Australian Society

5 February 2026 AIMN Editorial 20

By Denis Hay Description Advertising is everywhere in Australia. This article explains how constant exposure shapes behaviour and democracy, and what citizens can do to push back. Introduction – Living Inside Advertising From breakfast […]

A Crisis of Complicity: Why the Herzog Invitation Represents a Constitutional Failure Greater than 1975

5 February 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 12

Abstract The 1975 constitutional crisis was precipitated by a failure to guarantee Supply – the financial lifeblood of the state. The crisis precipitated by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog is […]

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Operation ChatGPT – a fair go too far (Part 3)

4 February 2026 AIMN Editorial 1

By Alicia Lucas Company use of data and “blackbox” algorithms in day to day management Uber appears to use the data it collects to micromanage drivers, to monitor and advertise to passengers and increasingly to […]

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Australia doesn’t need Trump. We’ve already rejected him – loudly

4 February 2026 Roswell 11

Almost daily, social media produces one of its more durable fantasy genres: “If Donald Trump ran in Australia, he’d win in a landslide.” Many are followed with pleas that Australians are desperate for a […]

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Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit to Australia

4 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Things are getting rather ropey on the invitation of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia on February 8. It came amidst the anguish following the Bondi Beach attacks of December 14, 2025 on attendees […]

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Political Futures: Can More Interest Rate Pain Be Avoided?

4 February 2026 Denis Bright 23

Following an overly generous rate cut in August 2025, the RBA Board made a unanimous decision to move from On Hold Status to the first-interest rate hike since the post-COVID recovery under the Morrison Government. […]

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The Psychiatric Leviathan: How Clinical Authority Enables State Violence and Erodes Democracy

4 February 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 4

A Critical Analysis Abstract: This article argues that the fusion of state power with the unchecked epistemic authority of clinical psychiatry creates a pathological form of governance capable of reframing atrocity as treatment and dissent […]

Trump to Congress: “I don’t need your stinkin’ approval to fund Israeli genocide in Gaza”

4 February 2026 AIMN Editorial 12

By Walt Zlotow Trump is so anxious to continue funding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Gaza that he won’t wait for customary congressional approval. He authorized a mammoth weapons tranche of $6.6 billion to Israel which […]

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The Sledgehammer and the Scalpel: Why the RBA is Punishing You for Corporate Greed

4 February 2026 David Tyler 4

As we stumble through the economic wreckage of 2026, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s addiction to interest rate hikes lays bare a basic misdiagnosis of our national crisis. The RBA’s logic is a fossil of […]

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Beware these dangerous writers in the world of journalism

3 February 2026 Noel Wauchope 18

I had in mind to look at Australia’s dangerous writers, in no particular hurry. But that’s changed. You see, the Australian Prime Minister, in his wisdom, decided to invite Isaac Herzog, the President of our […]

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