Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health
The desperate attempt by the US imperium to nab Julian Assange was elevated to another level on August 11 in a preliminary hearing before the […]
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Cultivated Delusions at the Tokyo Olympics
Australia’s Channel 7 team was all about ignoring history as its selected commentators went into describing, poorly, the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. The […]
Silicon Valley, New Zealand and Pandemic Exceptionalism
There are some crises that never touch the well-heeled. Money, like flab, insulates them from bruising. The generally applied laws of a state can be […]
Homer the Greek and his lock-downs
I know, this will be somewhat controversial, this view of mine about Homer, I mean but, oh well, let the controversy explode and let’s see […]
Fighting Malta’s Rule of the Jungle: The Daphne Caruana Galizia Inquiry
The Public Inquiry into the murder of the resourceful journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia handed down its findings on July 29. Firm aim was taken at […]
Rio Tinto in Serbia: The Jadar Lithium Project
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture […]
Global Britain Slashes International Aid
“Decisions on aid are eroding trust and eroding relationships between the UK and developing countries.” (Abby Baldoumas, Financial Times, July 15, 2021). Politics is not […]
The contagion of conspiracy theories
On February 22nd 2020, AIMN author John Lord penned an insightful observation. In an essay entitled ‘Truth doesn’t have the same importance it once did’, […]
Hello, national security? It’s QAnon here.
By Karen Stewart Mr Morrison, I was rather shocked by your choice of the word “ordinary” to describe the recent Four Corners episode regarding QAnon. […]
Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence […]
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Afghanistan, Failure and Second Thoughts
It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is […]
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
“The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts.” Martin Müller, European Urban […]
Tokyo’s Pandemic Games Open
The auguries are not good for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Resignations have filled the ledger, including Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, organising committee president Yoshiro Mori […]
Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights
They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for […]