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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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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 >>
Out of the Closet: Fiorina and the China Threat
Saturday, 15 August 2015, 12:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The China Threat continues to remain the plate du jour on the menu of American security commentators. It is also very much at the forefront of political chatter. But explicit statements of China as power monger, hungering to challenge US primacy, tend to be ... More >>
The Problems with an MH17 Tribunal
Sunday, 2 August 2015, 10:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark The statement from the Australian Prime Minister’s office on July 30 cast a strong light on a mind that has its hazy moments. “Russia’s veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution to establish a tribunal to ... More >>
When Will the Rogue Resign? Blatter and FIFA
Saturday, 1 August 2015, 12:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even he admitted it. Having ridden roughshod over those who questioned his authority to be at the helm of the world’s most famed sports mafia enterprise, Sepp Blatter decided to resign from his position as FIFA head. Only, he hasn’t. More >>
Dead Again: Mullah Omar
Friday, 31 July 2015, 8:07 am | Binoy Kampmark
What is it about these rubbery like figures of history? Death becomes them, and obituaries are fairly useless, less they suggest finality. The point about such fantasy producing tropes such as the “war on terror” is that they cannot allow their subjects, ... More >>
Shark “Attack”: Mick Fanning and Surfing with the Animals
Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 8:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It happened at the J-Bay Open surf event in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, featuring Australian surfer Mick Fanning and a shark that found itself grabbing the champion surfer’s leg rope. “It just kept coming at my board and I was kicking and screaming.” ... More >>
Expansion by Stealth: UK strikes in Syria
Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 8:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is worth noting that the UK Parliament was against it, namely, enlarging a campaign against the Islamic State that would also involve targeting Syrian positions. The security cognoscenti were always insisting that any conflict with IS worth its salt ... More >>
Censorship in Adelaide
Saturday, 18 July 2015, 6:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The more things change, the more they stay the same in all their decaying tedium. And so, the censors in Australia have been busying themselves through the not so intelligent arm of the law by insisting that copies of Bret Easton Ellis’ American ... More >>
Warring Against Windmills: Tony Abbott and Renewable Energy
Saturday, 18 July 2015, 11:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
Stone age politics continues its creaky, inscrutable way in Canberra, with the Australian Prime Minister keen to show his acute lack of understanding about the renewable energy sector. One wonders whether he believes in its existence at all. On this occasion, ... More >>
