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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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Students And The Apolitical Sword: The Defeat Of Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić
Tuesday, 27 October 2026, 4:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The government response, which took the form of funded groups keen on harassing and pigeonholing the students as beneficiaries of foreign largesse, proved incessant. More >>
Terrorists In The West Bank: Settler Violence And The Excusing Hand
Sunday, 25 October 2026, 2:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Netanyahu has an election to win, and the security and military forces have become his electioneering playthings. More >>
Defective Products: OpenAI, Dangerous Chatbots And Deception
Thursday, 22 October 2026, 2:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The theme of deception runs like a thick thread through the lawsuits. OpenAI allegedly advertised itself to the public as “a responsible actor”, with ChatGPT being “a safe, youth-appropriate tool that puts safety first”. More >>
Attempted Assassinations: The Attack On Helen Haines
Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 2:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Curiously enough, a parliament filled with the likes of Haines and her crossbench colleagues would be a start. Out with the machine types and clod apparatchiks; in with the sentient, sensitive human, at long last. More >>
The Language Of Extermination: NAZA, Artificial Intelligence And Gaza
Monday, 19 October 2026, 9:38 am | Binoy Kampmark
NAZA serves to, as the Israeli American historian Omer Bartov points out, address a “state of denial” by “actually speaking about the issue of what happened in Gaza rather than refusing to speak about it.” More >>
Sportswashing The Racing Circuit: Rwanda And Formula One
Friday, 16 October 2026, 1:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In its Oct 13 statement, FI glows with the announcement that motor racing will “return to Africa for the first time since 1993.” The language of the announcement resembles the best traditions of sporting colonialism on the hunt for willing consumers. More >>
Taunting The Bullies: Navi Pillay Wins The Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday, 15 October 2026, 12:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Their choice of South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a former International Criminal Court (ICC) justice, was conspicuously apposite. More >>
Entertainment, Free Speech And Judicial Murder: Hegseth And Livestreaming Executions
Tuesday, 13 October 2026, 5:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Previous court cases on the subject of limiting witnesses to an execution have considered the soundness and scope of regulations made by prison authorities on how the gory process is to be viewed. More >>
An Ignoble Work Of God: Jeffrey Archer And The Cult Of The Conman
Monday, 12 October 2026, 2:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When elected to the Lincolnshire seat of Louth in the December 1969 by-election, Jeffrey Archer repeatedly insisted he was the youngest Member of Parliament at the time. (He was the fourth.) More >>
Waffling At The UN: OpenAI, Anthropic And Selling Artificial Intelligence
Saturday, 10 October 2026, 7:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
UN officials are certainly in a muddle about how to approach what is both a poisoned chalice and rich cornucopia of opportunity. More >>
Flying Scared: The Evacuation Of US Bombers From RAF Fairford
Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 2:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The war against Iran was meant to conclude in a popular insurrection against the theocrats in Tehran and the blooming of various flowers in the Orangerie of democracy. There was no insurrection and certainly no flowering. More >>
Managed Deception And Imperial Politics: Trump’s Greenland Deal
Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 1:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Mindful of the alleged threats posed by “adversaries to expand influence and control in Greenland”, a greater muscularity in American invigilation on who invests in the territory is offered. More >>
Perilous Surrender: The Pentagon Falls For Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 8:13 am | Binoy Kampmark
Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was already running simulated aerial trials of combat engagements between AI agents and seasoned pilots. More >>
Lawless Lands: Trump Preaches At The United Nations
Friday, 2 October 2026, 4:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Where relevant, international customary law should advance, not limit, the power of the state. Trump’s America, in league with other like-minded nation states, have decided to trash the order and soil the sanctum. More >>
Denial As A Way Of Life: Netanyahu On Egyptian Warnings About October 7
Thursday, 1 October 2026, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What is telling for Netanyahu is the fact that he received three warnings in total from the Egyptians, the second having been personally delivered by Kamel in late September 2023. More >>
Haphazard Luck: Operational Oddities, Terrorist Proxies And RAF Fairford
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The men in question, according to the police, remained under investigation, with their release “subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others”. More >>
School Deaths And Narco Killings: The UN And US Crimes In International Law
Friday, 25 September 2026, 2:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In terms of recommendations, Saul’s report proposes that Washington conduct necessary, impartial, independent and transparent investigations into the killings to comport with international standards More >>
Bidding Wars And Nonsense Targets: Cutting Migration Down Under
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 12:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The university sector in Australia has treated the international student body as a never-ending milch cow without necessarily concerning itself with their welfare. More >>
False Advertising: Albanese, Digital Safety And Australia’s Security Council Bid
Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 1:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of his premiership. Politically, he is so invested in it as to have become a salesman of sorts. More >>
Guinness Meditations And Fine Retreats: The Drunken Poet Turns Twenty
Sunday, 20 September 2026, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There are those of various faiths, beliefs and persuasions who find, even in the boisterous atmosphere, a sanctuary. This is the midpoint retreat, a barricade against the unpleasant. More >>
