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Genocidal Tremors: Taking Israel To The International Court Of Justice

Sunday, 31 December 2023, 6:58 am | Binoy Kampmark

Litigating against countries is the stuff of esoteric delight for international lawyers. Such matters become yet more complex when it comes to claims of genocide or broader crimes against humanity. Accusations, however motivated, are always easy ... More >>

Amoral Compass: Palantir and its Quest to Remake the World

Friday, 29 December 2023, 7:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Finance analysts free of moral scruple can point to Palantir with relish and note that 2023 was a fairly rewarding year for it. The company, which bills itself as a “category-leading software” builder “that empowers organizations to create ... More >>

Constitutional Violations: Julian Assange, Privacy and the CIA

Thursday, 28 December 2023, 6:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark

As a private citizen, the options for suing an intelligence agency are few and far between. The US Central Intelligence Agency, as with other members of the secret club, pour scorn on such efforts. To a degree, such a dismissive sentiment is understandable: ... More >>

A Growing Butcher’s Bill: Israel’s War Spending

Wednesday, 27 December 2023, 7:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron is worried. He is keeping an eye on the ballooning costs of his country’s war against Gaza and the Palestinians. Initially, the Netanyahu government promised to increase its defence budget by NIS 20 billion (US$5.48 billion) ... More >>

Red Sea Deployments: Canberra Says No

Tuesday, 26 December 2023, 6:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The failure of the United States to convince the Australian government to send one vessel to aid coalition efforts to deter Houthi disruption of international shipping in the Red Sea was a veritable storm whipped up in a teacup. The entire exercise, ... More >>

Day X Marks The Calendar: Julian Assange’s ‘Final’ Appeal

Friday, 22 December 2023, 1:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Julian Assange’s wife, Stella, is rarely one to be cryptic. “Day X is here,” she posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter. For those who have followed her remarks, her speeches, and her activism, it was sharply clear what this meant. ... More >>

A Merry AUKUS Surprise, Western Australia!

Thursday, 21 December 2023, 7:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The secretive Australian government just cannot help itself. Clamouring and hectoring of other countries and their secret arrangements (who can forget the criticism of the Solomon Islands over its security pact with China for that reason?) the Albanese ... More >>

Cardinal Crimes: Absolute Rule And Fleecing The Holy See

Monday, 18 December 2023, 3:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Like a bank with branches everywhere, the Catholic Church will go after its own when circumstances permit, wherever they are. In other instances, it will take the opposite tack, shielding the detractors or deviants from local scrutiny, and concealing ... More >>

False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28

Sunday, 17 December 2023, 3:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows how a worthless activity, caked (oiled?) with appropriately chosen words, can actually ... More >>

Flirting With Nuclear Energy Down Under

Friday, 15 December 2023, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark

It was a policy that was bound to send a shiver through the policymaking community. The issue of nuclear energy in Australia has always been a contentious one. Currently, the country hosts a modest nuclear industry, centred on the Australian Nuclear Science ... More >>

A Flawed And Dangerous Presence: US Troops In Syria

Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 11:48 am | Binoy Kampmark

Despite a focus on boxing China in the Indo-Pacific, US involvement in the Middle East continues to be widespread and problematic. While Israel is given its regular steroid diet of murderous arms, US military personnel find themselves scattered throughout ... More >>

Censoring Israeli Violence: Western Media Outlets Capitulate

Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 12:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one. In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed. Historical inconveniences are filed and rendered inaccessible. The only sermons tolerated will be those satisfying and serving the ... More >>

Accidents Of Eccentricity: Israel’s Pacific Hold

Sunday, 10 December 2023, 7:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Cunning, subtle, understated. Israeli policy in the Pacific has seen United Nations votes cast in its favour, the foreign policies of certain countries adjusted, and favours switched. While China may be considered the big, threatening beast competing ... More >>

The View From Washington: Let The Killing In Gaza Continue

Sunday, 10 December 2023, 4:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify ... More >>

The View From Washington: Let The Killing In Gaza Continue

Sunday, 10 December 2023, 4:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify ... More >>

Actuarial Justice: Released Refugees And Secondary Punishment

Thursday, 7 December 2023, 2:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark

In most instances, the justice system of a liberal democracy presumes absence of arbitrary and cruel treatment by the State. Punishment, when levelled, is finite. It might see out the term of a convict’s natural life, but that would only be for ... More >>

COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go To Gloat

Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The sequence of COP meetings, ostensibly a United Nations forum to discuss dramatic climate change measures in the face of galloping emissions, has now been shown for what it is: a luxurious, pampered bazaar for the very industries that fear a dip ... More >>

Refreshing The Camelot School: Kennedy Hagiography At Sixty

Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 12:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record. With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, ... More >>

Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees

Sunday, 3 December 2023, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Across the globe, refugees, always treated as the pox of public policy, continue to feature in news reports describing anguish, despair and persistent persecution. If they are not facing barbed wire barriers in Europe, they are being conveyed, where ... More >>

Sovereignty Surrendered: Subordinating Australia’s Defence Industry

Thursday, 30 November 2023, 1:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark

One could earn a tidy sum the number of times the word “sovereignty” has been uttered or mentioned in public statements and briefings by the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. But such sovereignty has shown itself to be counterfeit. The net ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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