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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 >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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