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Politics

Operation ChatGPT – a fair go too far (Part 1)

17 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 0
By Alicia Lucas OpenAI released ChatGPT in Australia and elsewhere in 2022. OpenAI had by then gone from a totally non-profit company to operating ChatGPT in a profit subsidiary of the non-profit company. OpenAI seems […]
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Politics

The Manufactured Silence: How Australia’s Education and Institutions Were Engineered for Consent

16 January 2026 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 10
Abstract This investigation traces the deliberate transformation of Australia’s education system from a public good to a commodity of ideological control, orchestrated by a confluence of neoliberal policy, Zionist influence networks, and media consolidation since […]
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Health

Aftermath of the Bondi massacre

14 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 5
By Antony Loewenstein Welcome to 2026. The year has started with a US invasion and kidnapping in Venezuela, ongoing Israeli killings in Gaza, surging violence in the West Bank, huge protests in Iran against its […]
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AIM Extra

Religious hate speech from the Bible and the Quran

13 January 2026 Bert Hetebry 8
The challenge of having freedom of religion and the way both the Bible and the Quran deal with difference makes the idea of legislating against hate speech from religious leaders and their followers an almost […]
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Politics

Raw, Rude, and Angry – in the new world of journalism

13 January 2026 Noel Wauchope 8
Amongst the many types of new independent journalism, my favourite is Raw, Rude and Angry, a type that would never have got into conventional “mainstream” media, which keeps up the facade of respectability (even while […]
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Politics

Is the U.S. preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as a U.S. puppet?

13 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 4
By Walt Zlotow   Nationwide anti-government protests are wracking Iran with over 500 killed and 10,000 detained. The U.S. political establishment is ecstatic about the possibility of regime change of the hated Iranian Islamic government which […]
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Health

Why Australia is Outsourcing Essential Services

12 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 10
By Denis Hay   Description Government outsourcing essential services shifts public money to profit while access and outcomes decline. Introduction Outsourcing essential services has quietly reshaped daily life in Australia. This shift toward outsourcing essential […]
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Politics

Senate Republicans edging toward War Powers Resolution to curb Trump’s crazed Venezuelan war

12 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 0
By Walt Zlotow In a rare pushback to one of Trump’s many illegal wars, five Senate Republicans joined all 47 Democrats to advance a War Powers Resolution to prevent President Trump from launching another attack […]
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Politics

What has become of America?

11 January 2026 Michael Taylor 10
There was a time when America liked to see itself – and be seen – as a flawed but striving democracy. Loud, imperfect, often hypocritical, but anchored to the idea that power should be constrained, […]
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Politics

Kristi Noem just hundreds of millions off in praising Trump’s drug deaths reduction

10 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 5
By Walt Zlotow   “You’ve saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem proclaimed that at a December 2 Cabinet meeting praising Trump’s mass […]
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Politics

Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent

8 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3
Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges […]
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Politics

Trump’s Annexation Threats: Australia’s Alliance Dilemma

7 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 6
By Alasdair Black How can we, Australia, remain allied to the US if they threaten annexation of an ally’s territory? This throws into question our AUKUS pact with the UK and US, and sets America […]
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AIM Extra

Shared Borders, Shared Futures

7 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 3
By Niu Honglin Peace doesn’t always fall apart because of distant rivals. Peace breaks down because neighbours stop talking. Borders are challenged, and trust chipped away. Small disagreements fester and become permanent. In a world […]

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