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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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Thank You For Emitting: The Hypocrisies Of COP29
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 ... More >>
Natural Resources And Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation
Sunday, 17 November 2024, 9:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank remains under the thick thumb of occupation, deliberations in foreign fora continue to take place about how to address this hideous state of affairs. More >>
Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Biden administration, through the good offices of Blinken, continues to insist on the vitality of the US imperium. But US hegemony long left unchallenged is, most certainly, at an end. More >>
They Were There First: Election Denialism, The Democratic Way
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of vanishing as aberrant over the Biden years, Trumpism has come home to roost in winning, not only the Electoral College but the majority vote by convincing margins. More >>
The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The statement here is not “lest we forget” but “what should be remembered?” Corpses are only memorable if they are useful. The fallen serve as bricks and masonry for the next slaughter, engineered by war criminals, the negligent and the incompetent. More >>
The Musings Of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions Of An Asian NATO
Monday, 11 November 2024, 1:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Kritenbrink’s analysis hardly gets away from the suspicion that the “latticework” theory of US security in the Indo-Pacific is but a form of NATO in embryo. More >>
The Price Of Eggs: Why Harris Lost To Trump
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From the start, the Democrats had tied themselves in knots by convincing President Joe Biden that he could not only last the tenure of his office but run against Trump. Doing so, and deriding those wishing to see a change in the guard, created a needless ... More >>
South Africa’s Memorial To The ICJ: More Evidence On Israel’s Genocide
Sunday, 3 November 2024, 7:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Acts and omissions by Israel, argued the South African government, were alleged to be of a “genocidal” nature, “committed with the requisite specific intent … to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, ... More >>
Virtuous, Smug And Venal: British Electoral Interference In The US
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
US politics remain a matter of enormous importance to the UK. Interfering in US elections is a habit that dies hardest of all. More >>
Cattle Dog Gusto: How Bluey Conquered The United States
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 1:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The series in question, Bluey, features an Australian dog of the Blue Heeler variety: one Bluey, a six-year-old cattle dog who lives in the Queensland city of Brisbane with sister Bingo, and parents Bandit and Chilli. More >>
Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment Of Palestinians
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel’s efforts to malign and cripple UNRWA remains a vital part of the agenda of murderous collective punishment, one used against a people seen more as mute serfs and submissive animals than sovereign beings entitled to rights and protections. More >>
Political Labelling: The EU’s Legal Stance On Goods From Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Friday, 25 October 2024, 2:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A 2015 policy brief from the European Council on Foreign Relations describes it as “a de facto policy of differentiating between Israel and settlement activities in the Occupied Territories within its bilateral relations.” More >>
Stifling The Sikh Diaspora: India’s Continuing War On Khalistan
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The response from New Delhi was one of unbridled indignation. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal claimed that Canada had “presented us no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations it has chosen to level ... More >>
Widening The War: The US Sends Troops To Israel
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 1:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a measure that should have garnered bold headlines, the Biden administration has announced the deployment of some 100 US soldiers to Israel who will be responsible for operating the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. More >>
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering On Iran
Friday, 18 October 2024, 6:45 am | Binoy Kampmark
The nuclear option is now available to governments that should never have had them. But acquiring the dangerously untenable followed. To assume that brutal, amputation loving theocrats in Tehran should not have them defies the trajectory of a certain ... More >>
Israel’s War On The United Nations
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 11:56 am | Binoy Kampmark
On its establishment, the UN became a hostage to the political intrigues and power blocs that have continued to plague it for its duration. Of particular concern was the body’s pursuit of international law protocols – formulation, drafting and ... More >>
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 >>
