Call for a Global Plan for Human Survival
Media Release from the Commission for the Human Future Canberra, March 28, 2020: A group of Australian scientists, business leaders, public servants and academics has called for […]
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Barbaric Decisions: Coronavirus, Refusing Bail and Julian Assange
“To expose another human being to serious illness, and to the threat of losing their life, is grotesque and quite unnecessary. This is not justice, […]
Eating Tomatoes in Portugal – some AIMN fun!
Feel like a break from all the bad news? Well here we are, the AIMN writers and regular commenters on those articles, spending plenty of […]
Goodbye Gabbard
The Democratic establishment is deriving some delusionary cheer from it. The line of candidates for the presidential nomination has thinned, many falling out and proceeding, […]
Coronavirus and the Prison Industrial Complex
The legacy of the coronavirus pandemic, at least in so far as responses are concerned, is thickening by the day. Behavioural changes are being urged, […]
We were once prepared for this
I must be a prophet. Of doom, unfortunately. I began writing this article on January 11, with the title ‘Are we prepared for a pandemic?’ […]
Business as Usual: Coronavirus, Iran and US Sanctions
Never discount the importance of venality in international relations. While pandemics should provide the glue for a unified front in response – we keep being […]
The Pandemic Surveillance State
In anticipation of the post-COVID-19 world, bold statements are being made on how we will, as a race, be wiser, even kinder; cautious, and reflective. […]
Home Alone – Punishment or Privilege?
By Elizabeth Dangerfield A question of attitude In our extraordinary full lives, we rush headlong from one event or task to another with no time […]
Preventing the spread of COVID-19
A practical guide for the home Overview First off, there are plenty of other useful sources out there that explain the importance of washing your […]
Viral Reactions: The Smugness of Celebrity Self-Isolation
The rush to elevate self-isolation to Olympian heights as a way to combat the spread of COVID-19 has gotten to the celebrities. Sports figures are […]
Surf the Internet Instead: Britannic Herd Immunity and Coronavirus
Epidemiologist William Hanage was more than perplexed by the plan. “When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan,” he reflected in The Guardian, “I […]
The Taliban Scores a Coup
It threatened to disappear under the viral haze of COVID-19, but February 29 saw representatives from the US and Taliban, loftily acknowledged as the Islamic […]
The Release of Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning’s release last Thursday by order of Virginia District Court judge Anthony Trenga had an air of oddness to it. “The court finds Ms. […]
For Heaven’s Sake Sanitise! Coronavirus as a Way of Life
“Anything we say in advance of a pandemic happening is alarmist; anything we say afterwards is inadequate.” (Michael Leavitt, US Health and Human Services Secretary, […]