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Today’s indexation fails to meet needs amid escalating crisis

1 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release The Federal Government must urgently lift income support payments as cost of living pressures are expected to take centre stage in the next budget and 2025 federal […]

Military mansplaining dispels any nonsensical ideas about “the sanctity of space”

31 December 2024 Noel Wauchope 4

Doncha love mansplaining? It simplifies everything, takes away your worries, and you can now complacently forget about any silly way-out anxieties that you might have had about technological progress. As our military defenders develop advanced […]

Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question

31 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents. Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching […]

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Number 1 for 2024: New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network

30 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 7

The wait is over! Number 1 can at last be revealed. This March article by Lucy Hamilton put New Zealand on AIMN reader’s maps. A worthy winner. Well done, Lucy. Just as the Atlas Network-connected […]

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Working

29 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 3

By James Moore When I was offered the job I was a bit stunned. Summertime employment in the car factories of Michigan was mostly an impossible dream for college students. The work was generally relief […]

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Number 3 for 2024: Gaza

28 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 3

Great to see Keith Davis make his debut in the Top 5, with this topical article on Gaza from January. Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? Palpably so. But have you bothered for even a […]

Sinking Mike Pompeo: Tucker Carlson, Assange and Trump

28 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Mike Pompeo’s role in the first Trump administration as both director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Secretary of State will be forever associated with the venom and desperation he had in targeting Julian […]

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Number 4 for 2024: Peter Dutton still yet to deny he has shares in Coles!

27 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 2

What’s a Top 5 for the year if a Rossleigh article isn’t in it? Answer: We don’t know, because he’s always in it. He comes in at number 4 with this gem from January on […]

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Convenient generalisations

27 December 2024 Bert Hetebry 6

Generalisations are good, aren’t they? “They (Young people) have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great […]

Suing Antony Blinken: The US State Department, Israel and the Leahy Law

27 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

On December 17, a number of Palestinians alleging human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) against the US Secretary of […]

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No 5 for 2024: The Harman Undertaking

26 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 6

We begin our annual top five most widely read articles for the year. Number 5 in 2024 goes to Dr Jennifer Wilson for The Harman Undertaking, published in April. A most disturbing revelation, with profound […]

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