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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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Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI And The Pacing Fallacy
Thursday, 17 September 2026, 2:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Anthropic-OpenAI gambit here is to have it all ways: forecast terror in models that they are designing, propose a means of regulating that terror or just slowing their pace of development, and then, when necessary, unleashing that terror. More >>
Money Morals: Leon Black In Epstein Land
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 12:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
According to the Dechert review, Black saw little in the way of problems using the services of a man convicted for two felony offences involving the procuring of a person under the age of 18 for prostitution and solicitation for prostitution. More >>
Hubris In Action: Netanyahu And The Warnings Of October 7
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 7:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
Netanyahu, according to a report by Smadar Perry writing for Ynet, is said to have told Kamel that, “In Gaza, we are in the picture, we are in control. Our problem is with the West Bank, and that’s where we are diverting our forces.” More >>
A New Sanctions Regime: Targeting Israel’s West Bank Settlements
Thursday, 10 September 2026, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
International Court of Justice, in its 2024 advisory opinion, clarified the point that the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem had “been established and are being maintained in violation of international law. More >>
Skidding Pacts: An AUKUS Delusion Update
Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 12:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“AUKUS,” according to Streeting, “says to our adversaries that if you attack one of us, you are challenging a coalition that is willing to stand together to defend the values we cherish and to fight alongside one another.” More >>
Slanted Cartography: The Politics Of Mapping
Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 10:57 am | Binoy Kampmark
The remarks made at the General Assembly recapitulate the theme that cartography is geography made political. Mark Monmonier is one who has spent time on the nature of how maps are used to advance the cause of States while limiting those of others. More >>
Dreams About Gaza: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Proposals
Saturday, 5 September 2026, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It had been one of those moments of mental arrest, but Trump engendered a sharp frisson in the ranks of the Netanyahu government with his February 2025 proposal to relocate the residents of Gaza. More >>
Slander And Impunity: The World Central Kitchen Killings In Gaza
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Behind the cover of bureaucratic plausibility and spread-sheet analysis, the Israeli authorities have conveniently packaged the charity worker with combat or terrorist groups, giving them equal standing in targeting. More >>
Autonomous Weapons And Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits
Monday, 31 August 2026, 2:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The faith placed by the military establishment in murderous machines remains an unshakeable one, with the idea of human control over decision making increasingly thinned in favour of the uncritical human consumer of data. More >>
Sensible Invalidations: Striking Down France’s Social Media Ban For Minors
Monday, 31 August 2026, 4:21 am | Binoy Kampmark
The role of parents and legal guardians would have to be a central feature in any social media restriction for children. More >>
Purgatorial Ethics: Sudan, The UAE And Australia’s Arms Trade
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
President of AWPR penned a sharpish piece for Michael West Media telling readers that there was “credible evidence that Australia may be contributing to serious atrocities in Sudan, where civilian massacres have been documented over the past ... More >>
Fagan’s Damning Verdict: Vandalism And Antisemitism Down Under
Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Fagan’s reasons provoked howls of protest from the offices of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. This was a dangerous example of judicial “activism” that avoided “the community impact”. More >>
Deprived At Sea: The Tribulations Of The USS Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 1:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On August 22, crew members of the Lincoln finally received news of a scheduled port call, with a possible planned rest and recreation stop in Thailand come early September. More >>
Exonerating Murder: The IDF And The World Central Kitchen Killings
Saturday, 22 August 2026, 1:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The IDF, and its foam flecked supporters, always insist that international law is something observed, though no one quite seems to know what version is being applied. More >>
Imperial Nostalgia: Afghanistan After Five Years Of Taliban Rule
Thursday, 20 August 2026, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Taliban, for their part, have shown that they can master the modern lingo of false advertising, claiming to observe modest change in such areas as women’s rights while still holding the fundamentalist line. More >>
Charlatans In Academe: When Jason Arday Went Too Far
Wednesday, 19 August 2026, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There has been much in the way of sorrow and utterances of tragedy regarding Arday. It is disingenuous for others to claim a share of it, reeking, as it does, of the Diana-effect. There is, however, an element of pity in it all. More >>
Colluding With Violence: Aiding Israeli Settlers In The West Bank
Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 3:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The official policy of the Netanyahu government is to regard the attacks as the nasty work of errant juveniles or delinquents who should know better. More >>
Wounding Victory: Nigel Farage Beats Count Binface
Saturday, 15 August 2026, 3:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Farage’s wounding victory was exactly what he deserved. Defeat would have afforded him a martyr’s exit, an unworthy dispensation. More >>
Undiplomatic Melons: Anthony Albanese’s Oafish Bungle
Thursday, 13 August 2026, 7:44 am | Binoy Kampmark
For Albanese, it all began with an interview on one of those podcasts best left to warble in cyberspace. But this is a PM eager to please, keen to be modish, so getting on the Bush Deep podcast (the warning is in the title) was just the ticket. More >>
Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention Turns 75
Tuesday, 11 August 2026, 2:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Filippo Grandi, the 11th UN High Commissioner for Refugees, insists on a sounder strategic approach towards displacement routes and the identification of protective measures for those on the move, and those parties hosting them. More >>
