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The California wildfires and the unmentioned threat of nuclear radiation

11 January 2025 Noel Wauchope 3

So far, the corporate media is not mentioning the potential threat of the Los Angeles horror fires to the Santa Susana Field Nuclear Laboratory. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) is located approximately 18 miles […]

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My Kangaroo Island

11 January 2025 Michael Taylor 13

The looks of excitement on our faces was sure evidence that Mr Borham’s idea was met with class approval. It was 1966. Trevor Borham was our class teacher at the Parndana Area School on Kangaroo […]

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Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo

10 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the US naval facility of Guantánamo Bay. Notice of this repatriation was […]

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Make brain health your New Year’s resolution in 2025

10 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Dementia Australia Media Release As many Australians start the year with a New Year’s resolution to increase their physical activity, Dementia Australia is cheering them on. Physical inactivity is the nation’s largest contributing modifiable risk […]

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Jimmy Carter’s place in the sun

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Peter Boyer In June 1979, on a warm and sunny morning in Washington, President Jimmy Carter stood with minders and media people on the roof of the White House to view what they imagined […]

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Monash experts: Andrew Tate launches political party

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

Monash University Media Release Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has this week launched a political party in the UK and announced his intention to attempt a political career. His party is titled ‘Britain Restoring Underlying Values’, […]

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Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia

8 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Here’s one for the ages, first published on our old site on June 23, 2014. “To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We […]

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Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests

8 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For […]

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The polar playground for a suicidal species?

7 January 2025 Noel Wauchope 2

Where to begin on this mind-boggling story about epic changes on a very small planet? Well, let’s begin on the fun part. The Australian Antarctic Program encourages some pretty innocuous recreational activities, plus of course, […]

Netflix Robodebt Australia’s War Against The People

7 January 2025 David Ayliffe 8

Bigger Than ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ I have just watched Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, a fantastic four part series about the ineptitude of the British Post Office and a corrupt computer […]

Was the Cold War avoidable? George Kennan.

Take Your Money and Shove it: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia’s Economic Trauma

7 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on no government in Russia.” (Peter J. Stavrakis, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, 1993). Diplomatic […]

Join the Army; Travel to Exotic, Distant Lands; and Radicalise

6 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions are meant to cope and cure the condition, not foster it. Like some errant form, […]

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The Revolutionary Act of Real Conversations

5 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Sue Barrett How Conversations Build Bridges, Empower Change, and Challenge the Status Quo Conversations are the foundation of every meaningful change in society. They are the revolutionary act that empowers us to dismantle division, […]

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What I wished I’d known at 45

4 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

It was a question, asking for advice, I think. I’m old, much older than 45, so the question may well have been asking for guidance or advice. Can you tell me one thing you know […]

Ignoring a Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria and Courting Dictators

3 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance, they will wander, leaving their principles aside like unwanted impediments. This was certainly the case […]

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