The Australian Independent Media Network

This Is Our Moment: A Call to Reclaim Democracy and Secure a Better Future for all Australians

2 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 15

By Sue Barrett The two-party system has failed us. It’s time for people-powered politics to deliver a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable future for everyone. I don’t know where you are right now and how […]

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Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports and Israel

2 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can surprise. The evolving body of law stripping back the immunity of heads of state for […]

The Atlas Network and the threat of nuclear war

2 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

The Atlas Network’s primary junktank is not content with promoting the potential collapse of “civilisation” through climate change. It has long been pivotal in constructing the kind of society that is now making memes celebrating […]

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Is it Armageddon?

1 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

I cannot be sure, but I seem to recall that Scott Morrison’s attitude to global warming ran something like, ‘it doesn’t matter much, Jesus is coming back soon, and the world as we know it […]

A farce only a monster could love

1 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

Though our original site will still be up for another couple of years, it is a horrid thought knowing that it will eventually be gone, and with it, thousands of articles that are a record […]

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This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory… It’s Not Clickbait, Either

1 January 2025 Rossleigh 13

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” (George Orwell, 1984). “I guess it’s worth pointing out the obvious – that the very governors and […]

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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 […]

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A year has ended. Another has begun.

1 January 2025 John Lord 6

In this pivotal moment in our history, the necessity for clear, evidence-based writing has reached unprecedented urgency. The year 2024 has heralded a significant transformation, marked by a disconcerting rise in politically motivated right-wing aggression […]

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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Greenland Redux: Trump and America’s Continuing Obsession

30 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen through sham contracts and undertakings. […]

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Number 2 for 2024: Israel’s argument at The Hague: We are incapable of Genocide

29 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 13

Dr Binoy also makes his debut in the Top 5, and well-deserved too, with this article from January. Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and […]

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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 […]

Climate Change and Genocide

29 December 2024 Bert Hetebry 9

The average rainfall in the wine growing region of Margaret River in South West Western Australia is around 1,130mm per year with rain recorded around 129 days of the year. In recent years, however, annual […]