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Ghosts of Albanese

Welcome to Australia I thought today of all days to mark this special occasion on the Australian Independent Media Network (AIMN), we’d celebrate world events from our unique perspective in the southern hemisphere as you […]
Statue of Liberty against a cloudy sky.
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American Sentence

‘Send these the homeless tempest-tost to me’, blind bats to my ‘golden door’,   deaf to the dimming of the light and slaughter from whence they crossed those seas. Miss Liberty hurls her truncheon, shattered […]
Person amidst collapsed buildings and debris.
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Apoplexy

There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land (Euripides 480-406 BC – ‘Medea’) Mors nobis inimica est   invidia lucem obscurat They spit, they scowl, they squeal and bite […]
Ancient seashore with ships and people.
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The Last Lament

On 15 March 1889, three American and three German warships, and HMS Calliope of the Royal Navy’s Australia Station protecting British interests, were tightly anchored in a standoff in the tiny harbour of Apia, Samoa, […]