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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 Politics of the Angry Man: Stephen Harper’s Canada
Saturday, 17 October 2015, 11:22 am | Binoy Kampmark
“He brought to Ottowa an oilman’s attitude to climate change and a sheriff’s approach to law and order.” The Economist on Stephen Harper, Oct 17, 2015 More >>
Defending Henry Kissinger
Saturday, 17 October 2015, 11:20 am | Binoy Kampmark
One of the most lamentable features of international relations courses remains the continued, and looming presence, not merely of Henry Kissinger the statesman but Henry Kissinger the theorist. Whatever one may think of old Heinz, he shaped geopolitics ... More >>
Lifting the 24 Hour Siege
Friday, 16 October 2015, 10:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
Lifting the 24 Hour Siege: Julian Assange, London’s Metropolitan Police and Continued Detention Binoy Kampmark More >>
Dangerous Skies: MH17 and the Culpability of Civil Aviation
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 4:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It shows a degree of poor sight from a civil aviation perspective, but disturbingly, the refusal on the part of Ukrainian authorities to heed concerns that the airspace in the eastern part of the country should have been closed to civilian aircraft prior ... More >>
Speaking at the Cambridge Union: Assange
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 9:37 am | Binoy Kampmark
“As always, it seems Julian Assange has exposed divisions right in the heart of the establishment.” More >>
What We Always Knew: The TPP and Intellectual Property
Monday, 12 October 2015, 12:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“This is about increasing the ability of global corporations to source wherever they can at the lowest cost.” More >>
FIFA Gets “Ethical”: Banning Blatter, Platini and Valcke
Monday, 12 October 2015, 12:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When the ethical arm of FIFA decides to lift its withered self from slumber, a sense of the unusual is in the air. In many ways, the committee members had little choice. The external forces – prosecuting teams in both the US and Switzerland – had ... More >>
The Curse of the Speaker’s Chair: Chaos within the GOP
Saturday, 10 October 2015, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While the Republican contenders swish and sway through the presidential race with mixed success, their recent engagements of the GOP on the Hill can only be described as disastrous. Much of this centres on one of US politics most important positions: ... More >>
Mercenary of Reaction: Lynton Crosby in Canada
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 10:54 am | Binoy Kampmark
Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Chaos in Kunduz
Monday, 5 October 2015, 11:35 am | Binoy Kampmark
Having the BBC herded along with Afghan government troops in heavily armed convoys as they made their way through Kunduz was hardly comforting for the official account. That account suggested that the government was gaining control of a city that had ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark - The Killings in Oregon: Business as Usual
Monday, 5 October 2015, 11:32 am | Binoy Kampmark
Normalised mass violence has become the unmentioned subject of US school syllabi. Teacher’s meetings and academic retreats must be getting longer and more perturbed: How do those in a university setting cope with an armed assailant who will take a ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: The British Army and Jeremy Corbyn
Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 5:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Having stirred the soup of British politics sufficiently to make it interesting again, UK Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn finds himself exciting one conservative grouping after another. The pacemakers are refusing to work. Cardiac arrest in some circles, it ... More >>
Getting Blatter’s Number Two: The Travails of Jérôme Valcke
Saturday, 19 September 2015, 10:23 am | Binoy Kampmark
Corruption is conditioning. In the world’s most notable mafia sporting organisation, it should barely register a shock that FIFA’s Secretary General has been fiddling with tickets. To be precise, Jérôme Valcke is said to have been involved in email ... More >>
Schools of Violence: The American University and the Gun
Wednesday, 16 September 2015, 8:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
“A few minutes into the class we heard these popping noises and we all went completely silent.” Charlie King, Delta State University student, Sep 14, 2015. More >>
The Fall of Tony Abbott
Tuesday, 15 September 2015, 9:17 am | Binoy Kampmark
“This will be a thoroughly Liberal government. It will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market.” More >>
Jeremy Corbyn Wins the Labour Leadership
Sunday, 13 September 2015, 9:32 am | Binoy Kampmark
Jeremy Corbyn has done it. The agitation of the Left in a deflated, and to a large extent ruined British Labour Party, raised Corbyn from the status of the rank outsider to that of leader with a mighty 59.5 percent of the vote. The Times deemed him a ... More >>
Housing Misery in the World: Juncker’s Refugee Quota System
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 2:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“It is true that Europe cannot house all the misery in the world. But we have to put it into perspective.” More >>
Australian Border Force Gore
Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 8:41 am | Binoy Kampmark
Last Friday, Australians got a taste of what the operational nature of the Prime Minister’s Border Force might look like. It began with a 9.16am press release that was issued featuring Don Smith, the Australian Border Force Regional commander for ... More >>
Fearing Mohács: Orbán’s Recipe for Refugees
Sunday, 6 September 2015, 10:44 am | Binoy Kampmark
“Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian?” More >>
Closing In: Tony Abbott and the Electoral Letter of Suicide
Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 12:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This Australian weekend has been getting pollsters and pundits salivating. Every political observer loves a good slaughter, and for some time now, Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has been willing to offer himself up for the billing. More >>
