Nexus (magazine)
Nexus is an Australian-based bi-monthly alternative news magazine. It covers geopolitics and conspiracy theories; health issues, including alternative medicine; future science; the unexplained, including UFOs; Big Brother; and historical revisionism. The magazine also publishes articles about freedom of speech and thought, and related issues. The magazine is or has been published in over 12 languages and is sold in over 20 countries. When including digital editions, Nexus has approximately 100,000 Australian readers and 1.1 million readers globally. It is owned and edited by Duncan Roads.[1][2][3][4]
Statement of purpose
In the magazine's masthead, a statement of purpose is printed:
NEXUS recognises that humanity is undergoing a massive transformation. With this in mind, NEXUS seeks to provide 'hard-to-get' information so as to assist people through these changes. NEXUS is not linked to any religious, philosophical or political ideology or organisation.
History
The magazine was first formed in 1986 by Ramses H. Ayana as a quarterly publication covering human rights, the environment, alternative health, women's rights, New Age, Free Energy, alternative science and the paranormal. Co-founder of the magazine was Jenni Elf and both founders had previously worked on the independent Australian magazine Maggie's Farm. R. Ayana now publishes sites new illuminati and Her(m)etic Hermit. Nexus was handed on to Duncan Roads in 1990, continuing a long tradition of keeping alternative publications alive in Australia, regardless of monetary considerations. Following the handover, the topics covered by Nexus were changed and it moved to a bi-monthly publication schedule. Duncan Roads and his partner Catherine Simons have produced the magazine since then.
Criticism
In 1997, the Stephen Roth Institute listed the Nexus website as one of the "main sites which contained or actively promoted anti-Semitism".[5]
More recently, the magazine has been criticized for supporting the claims of Jim Humble for his "Miracle Mineral Supplement" (MMS)[6] Humble has been a speaker at the Nexus conference.
Publication
The magazine's headquarters are located in Mapleton, Queensland, Australia. It is published in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, and Russia. Nexus has also been translated in Swedish, Korean and Japanese.
In the USA, the magazine is published as Nexus New Times. In Greece, the magazine was first published as Nexus and, following a period of inactivity, as New Times Nexus. The Polish edition is published as Nexus. Nowe Czasy (English: Nexus. New Times.), A Swedish edition was published between 1998 and 2000 with the title NEXUS Nya Tider.[7]
See also
- List of magazines of anomalous phenomena
- Marcus Allen - publishes and distributes Nexus in Britain
- Philip Coppens, a contributor to Nexus magazine who died in 2012
References
- ↑ Believers in conspiracies , UFOs, the unexplained gather for Nexus conference in Queensland, ABC News (Australia)
- ↑ pages 91-92, Conspiracy Encyclopedia
- ↑ Conspiracy Theories Page 37, Robin Ramsay (editor)
- ↑ "The growth of alternative media". TVNZ ONE news. July 2010.
- ↑ Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. Annual Reports 1997: Australia. Archived by Wayback Machine 18 August 2013
- ↑ Signs of the Times: A Branson, "Down the Rabbit Hole - The Assassination of JFK, Bishop Jim Humble And The Nexus Conference". Accessed 3 January 2013
- ↑ "Nexus Nya Tider" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-23.