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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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Caught In Belgium: Universal Jurisdiction And The IDF
Friday, 25 July 2025, 2:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On the glittery surface, apprehending two soldiers of the IDF and temporarily detaining them seems a case of pruning rather than uprooting. The problems remain, festering away in the suffering feats of endurance for those in Gaza. More >>
How Not To Reform A University: Trump’s Harvard Obsession
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 2:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In various splenetic statements, the President has made no secret about his views of the university. On Truth Social, we find him berating the institution for “hiring almost all woke, Radical left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’”. More >>
Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement On Gaza
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 12:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Till Israel assumes the status of a pariah state it seemingly craves to become, its rogue army confined and depleted, its economy humbled and isolated, the industrial appetite for slaughter and dispossession will only continue. More >>
Propaganda Siren: Silencing The Voice Of America
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 2:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The falling out of favour with Trump, not just of the Voice, but such anti-communist creations of the Cold War like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, is a loss for the propagandists. More >>
Ominous Plans: Making Concentration Camp Gaza
Friday, 18 July 2025, 1:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Camps of concentrated human life – concentration camps, in other words – are often given a different dressing to what they are meant to be. Authoritarian states enjoy using them to re-educate and reform the inmates even as they gradually kill ... More >>
K-Defense Day: Pimping For The Arms Dealers
Sunday, 13 July 2025, 4:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Militarism, following the seedy rationale to allow small & medium enterprises to participate, should not just be for the big corporations and arms manufacturers. In the business of killing, the little guys should also be given a chance. More >>
Death By Fungi: Cashing In On Erin Patterson
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 7:44 am | Binoy Kampmark
Having an opinion on this case has become standard fare, amassing on a turd heap of supposition, second guessing and wonder. The former court official interviewed about the killer’s guilty mind and poisoning stratagems, stating the obvious and ... More >>
Gunfire Communication With “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation And The IDF
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If nothing else, it is high time that the GHF scrap any pretence of being humanitarian in its title and admit to its true role: an adjutant to Israel’s program of extirpating Gaza’s Palestinian population. More >>
The Fanatic’s Gaze: Louis Theroux And The West Bank Settlers
Sunday, 6 July 2025, 1:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
People once seen as marginalised pioneers seeking land in the West Bank have become the spear of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More >>
An Economy Of Genocide: Israel And The Albanese Report
Friday, 4 July 2025, 1:22 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Central to the multifaceted economy of genocide, the report charges, is the military-industrial complex that forms “the economic backbone of the State.” More >>
Trump, Leakers And Journalists: The Assange Precedent And Revisiting The Espionage Act
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Recent threats by Trump against journalists who published and discussed the findings of a leaked preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency are hard to dismiss. The report dared question the extent of damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear facilities ... More >>
Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged?
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 12:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump was never going to be anything other than optimistic about the result. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images,” he blustered. “Obliteration is an accurate term!” More >>
A Vassal’s Impulse: Australia Backs US Strike On Iran
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Albanese government has shown not only historical illiteracy but an amnesia on the matter. Unfortunately, it’s the sort of amnesia that has become contagious, afflicting a goodly number of Washington’s satellites, vassals and friendly states. More >>
The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise Of War
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 1:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The centrepiece of the Hague Summit Declaration is a promise that 5% of member countries’ gross GDP will go to “core defence requirements as well as defence and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations”. More >>
Hastie’s Sensible Advice: More Transparency On US Forces In Australia
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Australian government had “long and full knowledge and concurrence arrangements in relation to America’s force posture in Australia, not just in relation to Pine Gap, but in relation to all of its force posture in Australia. More >>
Directive To Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good
Monday, 23 June 2025, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The joining of the United States in the war against Iran made Washington a co-conspirator to soiling international law and profaning its salient provisions. More >>
Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran And Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Rather than chastise Israel for committing a crime against peace, Iran was chided for exercising a retaliatory right that arose the moment Israeli weaponry started striking targets across the country on June 12. A villain had been identified, but ... More >>
Shelling The Aid Seekers: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Project In Gaza
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The previous day, 34 people awaiting to collect food were killed by IDF personnel near an aid centre operated by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a body whose dubious credentials never cease to amaze. More >>
Self-Defence And Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams Of Regime Change
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 1:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The pre-emptive, illegal strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure by Israel was not merely an attempt to arrest an alleged existential threat from yielding fruit (that weapons of mass destruction canard again); it was also a murderous exercise ... More >>
Condemning The Right To Self-Defence: Iran’s Retaliation And Israel’s Privilege
Monday, 16 June 2025, 7:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The calculus regarding the use of force by Israel vis-à-vis its adversaries has long been a sneaky one. It is jigged and rigged in favour of the Jewish state. More >>
