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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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Junk Science And Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project
Friday, 11 April 2025, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in identifying a form of predictive criminality perpetuates similar sins. The trend towards data heavy systems that supposedly offer insight into inherent, potential criminality has captured police departments ... More >>
Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War On Palestinian Health
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 12:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Since October 7, 2023, the death toll of health workers in the Gaza Strip has been impressively grim, reaching 1,060. Health facilities have been destroyed, with hundreds of attacks launched on health services. More >>
Withdrawal Symptoms: Hungary, Europe And The International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 11:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
On the arrival of the Israeli leader for a four-day visit, there was a conspicuous absence of any law officer or police official willing to discharge the duties of the Rome Statute. The reception for Netanyahu featured a welcoming ceremony at the ... More >>
Addressing Hate Speech And Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable In Africa
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is yet another example of holding the conduct of tech behemoths to account for the convulsive information ecosystem they have so blithely created and exploited. More >>
Closed For Business: The Oddities Of Trump’s Tariffs
Friday, 4 April 2025, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A baseline tariff of 10% was applied on goods imported by the US. Countries were then singled out for being particularly mischievous, in the eyes of the administration, not so much for having their own tariffs on US goods and products so much as having ... More >>
For The Love Of Landmines: European States Exit The Ottawa Convention
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 1:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the vibrant war chat that has gripped European capitals, the stockpiling and use of landmines is now being revisited as a genuine possibility. In its 2023 Landmine Monitor report, Human Rights Watch found that the active remnants of landmines killed ... More >>
Secrecy And Virtue Signalling: Another View Of Signalgate
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Other countries, notably members of the Five Eyes alliance system, are also voicing concern that their valuable secrets are at risk if shared with the Trump administration. Again, the focus there is less on the accountability of officials than the cast iron ... More >>
Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War On Israeli Institutions
Friday, 28 March 2025, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The convulsions in Israeli politics have been evident from various efforts to stall, if not abandon the legislation altogether. The law changing the judicial appointments committee had received 71,023 filed objections. While it passed 67-1, it only did ... More >>
Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The original SDI was heavy on the intended development and use of energy weapons, lasers being foremost among them. But even after four decades, US technological prowess remains unable to deploy such weapons of sufficient power and accuracy to eliminate ... More >>
Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding And The IOC
Monday, 24 March 2025, 12:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Little was given away on the more environmental or ecological aspect of the Games, which persist in altering local landscapes, redirecting and using valuable resources, and causing social disruption and hardships to local populations. More >>
Careless People, Meta And Restricting The Digital Town Square
Saturday, 22 March 2025, 2:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While Meta has suppressed and will prevent discussion of the book on its platforms, it is cheering to authentic defenders of the town square that discussion about such companies takes place. Their mighty, unprincipled dominance necessitates that. More >>
Back To Tried Failures: The New Offensive On Gaza
Friday, 21 March 2025, 1:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel and the United States have justified the resumption of hostilities on Hamas’ reluctance to release more hostages prior to commencing negotiations on ending the war. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has always been lukewarm to any notion of a durable ... More >>
The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The response to Jones in Australia proved heated. A petition seeking deportation was launched, receiving over 40,000 signatures. The Wombat Protection Society expressed shock at the “mishandling of a wombat joey in an apparent snatch for ‘social ... More >>
The Script Of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination
Monday, 17 March 2025, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Poland would receive collective military aid in any case should it be attacked. But, as Jon Wolfsthal of the Federation of American Scientists reasons, an innate concern of being abandoned in the face of aggression continues to cause jitters. More >>
Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, The Olympics And Climate Change
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 5:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If care of the planet is what these athletes sincerely want, a swift abolition of the Olympics, along with a virtuous cancellation of the IOC, would achieve their goals. Why wait for extreme weather to either modify or even do away with the games ... More >>
Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug
Friday, 14 March 2025, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The March 6 meeting of the Special European Council was a chance for 27 leaders of the European Union to make that point. It was time to cash in on the Russia threat and promote a strategic vision that spoke of elevated dangers. More >>
Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cyril Connolly remarked, are bound to have their critical faculties blunted by the poor quality of books available for review, Trump as both subject and method has cut through the undergrowth of sensible discourse. The illness hypothesis is yet ... More >>
More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash
Saturday, 8 March 2025, 2:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The aid budgets of wealthy states should never be seen as benevolent projects. Behind the charitable endeavour is a calculation that speaks more to power (euphemised as “soft”) than kindness. Aid keeps the natives of other countries clothed, fed ... More >>
Macron’s Offer: France And The Delusions Of Nuclear Deterrence
Friday, 7 March 2025, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The trouble with deterrence chatter is that it remains hostage to delusion. Strategists talk in extravagant terms about the genuine prospect that nuclear weapons can make any one state safer, leading to some calculus of tolerable use. More >>
Righteous, Confused And Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 7:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given their lack of punch and prowess, one arising from years fed by the devitalising US teat, European states are simply playing with toy soldiers. Eventually, they will have to play along if peace in Ukraine, however much detested in its form, is to ... More >>
