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Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Welcome To Tariff Land: The Retreat Of Free Trade
Friday, 11 October 2024, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Free trade remains, in general, a fantasy, dangerous for the naïve who feel that by embracing it, they are somehow enlarging their appeal and standing. Often, countries extolling its value are only those desiring exclusive or privileged access to a market. More >>
License To Muzzle: Taking Offence At Flag Wavers For Hezbollah
Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 2:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the previous first three instances, all outfits were integrated into the political fold of their countries, revealing the flimsy nature of badging organisations as terrorist entities. War makers and practitioners of violence can become peacemakers ... More >>
Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting Of The Chagossians
Sunday, 6 October 2024, 2:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The advocacy group, Chagossian Voices, deplored “the exclusion of the Chagossian community from the negotiations which have produced this statement of intent concerning the sovereignty of our homeland.” More >>
Handmaiden To The Establishment: Peter Greste’s Register Of Journalists
Friday, 4 October 2024, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Greste now wishes, with dictatorial sensibility, to further impress his views on journalism through Journalism Australia, a body he hopes will set “professional” standards for the craft and, problematically, define press freedom in Australia. More >>
Unrealisable Justice: Julian Assange In Strasbourg
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 2:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Assange’s full testimony began with reflection and foreboding: the stripping away of his self in incarceration, the search, as yet, for words to convey that experience, and the fate of various prisoners who died through hanging, murder and medical neglect. More >>
Presidential Marxism: AKD And The Sri Lankan Elections
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 1:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
AKD’s presidential victory tickles and excites the election watchers for various reasons. He does not hail from any of the dynastic families that have treated rule and the presidential office as electoral real estate and aristocratic privilege. More >>
The Illusion Of A Solution: Killing Hassan Nasrallah
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Another Nasrallah is bound to be in tow, with several others in incubation. More >>
Zelenskyy Joins The US Election
Friday, 27 September 2024, 1:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Ukrainian president has succeeded most brazenly in getting himself, and the war effort, into the innards of the US presidential election. In doing so, he has become an unabashed campaigner for the Democrats and the Kamala Harris ticket while offering ... More >>
Project Disharmony: The Murdoch Family In Court
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 2:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In upending the nature of the trust, Rupert intends to consolidate the power of the media imperium in the hands of his eldest son Lachlan. More >>
Predatory Instincts: The Phoney Pharaoh Of Harrods
Sunday, 22 September 2024, 1:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Underneath Harrods’ glitz and glamour,” observes US lawyer and prominent women’s right advocate Gloria Allred, “was a toxic, unsafe and abusive environment.” That, it seemed, was far from phoney. More >>
Failed Machismo: Israel’s Pager Killings
Friday, 20 September 2024, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The pager killings in Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17 that left almost 3000 people injured and 12 dead were just another facet of this move. On September 18, a number of walkie-talkies used by members of Hezbollah were also detonated, ... More >>
Peter Doherty: Public Science Communicator
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 2:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When it finally comes to Doherty’s turn to speak, one is immediately disabused by the image of a tyrannical professor lording over labs, staff and students. With mischief, he enters, unevenly, that treacherous field of educating the public about ... More >>
Beyond Irritation: Bali’s Tourism Scourge
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 5:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In its modern form, Bali’s tourism industry has become a plague of monumental proportion. A group calling itself Responsible Travel is not shy in calling the Indonesian island “one of the world’s most high-profile victims of mass tourism.” More >>
Bypassing Sanctions: Russia, Trade Routes And Outfoxing The West
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:19 am | Binoy Kampmark
Russia’s inventive response to sanctions has revitalised its economy and trade, forging new routes and partnerships, particularly with China and India, amidst ongoing conflict in Ukraine. More >>
Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension Of Arms Export Licenses To Israel
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To offer some mild reassurance to the disgruntled, notably regarding arms sales to Israel, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy promised to revisit the policy, editing it, as it were, to see if it stood the test of international humanitarian law. More >>
Killing Bazaars: The Land Forces Expo Down Under
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The protest outfit Disrupt Land Forces, one that so far boasts 50 different activist collectives, has been gathering some steam. More >>
Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 1:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of encouraging fine circumspection and growing maturity, these laws encourage comforting insularity and prolonged immaturity. More >>
A Return To Form: Expediting US Arms To Israel
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
August proved to be the second busiest month for US arms deliveries to Israel’s Nevatim Airbase since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas. More >>
Protecting The Widow Maker: The US Marines Exonerate The Osprey
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Osprey has pride of place in a military force that specialises in lethal aviation mishaps during training and routine operations. More >>
Protecting The Merchants Of Death: The Police Effort For Land Forces 2024
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 11. Melbourne. The scene: the area between Spencer Street Bridge and the Batman Park-Spencer Street tram stop. Heavily armed police, with glinting face coverings and shields, had seized and blocked the bridge over the course of the morning, preventing ... More >>
