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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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The US Congress and the Omnibus Military Bill
Monday, 21 December 2015, 10:08 am | Binoy Kampmark
“The funding to continue the war against ISIL is an authorization of force against ISIL, albeit a quiet one, designed not to attract public attention.” Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare, Dec 17, 2015 More >>
Bloody Entanglements: Saudi Arabia, Britain and Yemen
Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 11:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
“How our ally is using British arms runs counter to our self-proclaimed role in the world, and our aid efforts.” Major General Tim Cross, Dec 14, 2015. More >>
Trump, Islam and the Rationale of Exclusion
Monday, 14 December 2015, 12:22 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Donald Trump has had it in for the followers Allah and the Prophet from the start of his campaign. Much of this, however, is histrionics. Adopting a salesman’s pitch, Trump changes the message depending on his audience. If one is to go back into the ... More >>
COP 21: The Ambitions and Flaws of the Paris Agreement
Monday, 14 December 2015, 10:22 am | Binoy Kampmark
Seeing the clapping and hollering enthusiasm from the likes of Al Gore and others in Paris, one would have thought the earth had been saved. “I now invite the COP to adopt the decision entitled the Paris Agreement outlined in the document,” came ... More >>
Searching for Satoshi Nakamoto and Hunting Bitcoin
Thursday, 10 December 2015, 10:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
“The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized… We try until it works.” Craig S. Wright, Jan 10, 2009 More >>
Climate Change, Lord Monckton and Reverse Conspiracies
Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 4:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Eccentricity in the British sense is often a behavioural code for apologetics. If the man is totally off scale, somewhat dotty, he can be forgiven for being, well, eccentric. Never mind that he ignores the science, or regards the earth as flat. ... More >>
The Problems with Hacker Philanthropy
Monday, 7 December 2015, 10:42 am | Binoy Kampmark
“If Zuck wants a ‘gives 99% to of his stock to charity’ headline, he ought to earn it – by giving 99% of his stock to actual charities. Charities that aren’t named after him. Charities he doesn’t control.” Ted Rall, CounterPunch , Dec ... More >>
Battleground USA: The San Bernardino Shootings
Monday, 7 December 2015, 10:18 am | Binoy Kampmark
Spectacular violence has again made its reaping appearance, a brutal but sure sign that the distinction between militia and civilian has ceased having any value in the US context. The militarisation of the society has become the most vigorous of ... More >>
Incoherence and Bombing Mania in the British Commons
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 4:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Cameron’s approach is bomb first, talk later.” Jeremy Corbyn, British Labour leader, The Guardian, Dec 2, 2015 More >>
Straining the Republic: France’s State of Emergency
Monday, 30 November 2015, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
France is not alien to the notion of emergency powers. The French revolutionary state was very much an ongoing child of emergency, one safeguarded by the notorious and suppressing parent known as the Committee of Public Safety. In such swaddling clothes, ... More >>
British Austerity: Cutting One’s Own Backyard
Friday, 27 November 2015, 1:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Have you ever wondered how the prime minister sleeps at night?” George Monbiot, The Guardian, Nov 11, 2015 More >>
The Perils of Certainty: Obama and the Assad Regime
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 12:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In Kuala Lumpur, the US president continued the line that Bashar al-Assad had to go. His approach, one that has failed on all fronts thus far, has been to marginalise Assad while supplying a fictional grouping of regime opponents conveniently designated ... More >>
Animals in Conflict
Wednesday, 25 November 2015, 4:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When it was realised that a police Belgian Shepherd by the name of Diesel had perished at the end of a last act of defiance in St. Denis by suspected ISIS militants, social media, allied to the sentimental industrial complex, took over. Extensive coverage ... More >>
Closing the Door: US Politics and the Refugee Debate
Monday, 23 November 2015, 10:51 am | Binoy Kampmark
“If I err, it will be on the side of not having another Paris, France.” Tennessee State Rep. Glen Casada, Nov 19, 2015 More >>
Convenient Blame: Edward Snowden and the Paris Bombings
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 11:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
When intelligence services fail their calling; when institutions armed to the teeth with surveillance capacities and anti-terrorism laws falter in preventing what was their purpose to prevent, the cult of blame is bound to surface. Given his role in ... More >>
The Paris Aftermath: Global Manhunts; Halting Refugees
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 10:20 am | Binoy Kampmark
On this Monday morning, the CNN network is scrolling features about a “global manhunt” for those said to have been involved in the Paris attacks on Friday. Attackers are “at large”. The imaginary of global terror feasts yet again on the body of reason. ... More >>
Collusion and Control: Europe Pays Africa to Keep Refugees
Monday, 16 November 2015, 9:35 am | Binoy Kampmark
Things are getting their populist worst in Europe, with proposals of payment to various regimes to control the flow of refugees assuming grand proportions. Various African governments (Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia) have been offered in the order of 1.8 billion ... More >>
Paris, the Terrorists’ Magnet
Monday, 16 November 2015, 9:20 am | Binoy Kampmark
Twenty-four hour news cycles have made adolescents of us. Captivated by the brutality, the horror, and the disgust of it all, we venture into the world of around the clock news with blindness that finds everything exceptional, without precedent. In the ... More >>
David Cameron’s Gimmick: Negotiating with Brussels
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 10:35 am | Binoy Kampmark
It’s a bit like threatening to walk out of a marriage of four decades because your husband doesn’t put the top on the toothpaste tube.” Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Relations Director, New York Times, Nov 10, 2015 More >>
The Privilege of Exclusive Blame
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When the International Olympic Committee gets judgmental about a country, we know the moral ride ahead is going to be an odd one. Strange sight, indeed, to have such remarks that Russia deserves special sanction in allegations of mass doping violations ... More >>
