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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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White Smoke And Speculation: The Election Of Pope Leo XIV
Sunday, 11 May 2025, 3:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A mischievous remark was once made by an Australian commentator on Church matters that you would have better chances picking a winner at the Melbourne Cup horse race than the next pontiff. More >>
Bratty Royal: Prince Harry And Bespoke Security Protection
Friday, 9 May 2025, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The latest tremor of narcissistic display on the Duke’s part involved an interview with the BBC which could be billed as confession and advertisement: “I confess; I advertise”, with an afterthought of “Please Forgive Me Daddy” while funding ... More >>
Expulsion And Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:17 am | Binoy Kampmark
Within the Israeli cabinet, ethnocentric and religious fires burn with bright fanaticism. The Israeli Finance Finister Bezalel Smotrich remains a figure who ignores floral subtlety in favour of the blood-stained sledgehammer. More >>
Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes And Labor Triumphs
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 12:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Expansive, broad ideas were eschewed in favour of minutiae and objects of bribery: tax matters, cutting fuel excise, forgiving some student debt, improved Medicare services and child care assistance. More >>
Fantasy And Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal
Friday, 2 May 2025, 12:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Details remain somewhat sketchy, but the agreement supposedly sets out a sharing of revenues in a manner satisfactory to the parties while floating, if only tentatively, the prospect of renewed military assistance. More >>
The ICJ, Israel And The Gaza Blockade
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 12:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In yet another round of proceedings, this time initiated by a UN General Assembly resolution, the International Court of Justice is hearing from an array of nations and bodies (40 states and four international organisations) regarding Israel’s ... More >>
Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups
Sunday, 27 April 2025, 6:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This profaning of protest in a university setting is a convenient trick, using the popular weasel words of “offensive” and “unsafe” while deploying, more generically, the pitiful policy inventory that makes freedom of expression an impossibility. More >>
Fallibility, Dirty Wars And Pope Francis I
Friday, 25 April 2025, 1:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Pope Francis I, eulogised as the pontiff of the periphery and the oppressed, was not averse in his pre-papal iteration to courting the powerful and the authoritarian when a US-backed military dictatorship seized power in his native Argentina in 1976. More >>
The Selling Of America: Ending The US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 3:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Curious events are unfolding as a result of Trump’s carnivalesque approach to trade and markets. While the value of the greenback has fallen, the returns from 10-year US government bonds have risen. More >>
Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers And Self-Investigation
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In marking its own report card, and giving it a credible pass, the IDF found, using the dulling terms that make murder an afterthought, that the deaths were of minor if regretful consequence. More >>
Dotty And Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS
Sunday, 20 April 2025, 3:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To add to the more specialist literature calling large parts of AUKUS expenditure into question comes the emergence of disquiet in political ranks. Former Labor senator Doug Cameron, who fronts the Labor Against War group, is a symptom of growing dissent. More >>
De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy
Friday, 18 April 2025, 1:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Displacement orders, euphemised as “evacuation orders”, have become the staple of operating doctrine, the means of creating buffers of guns and steel. More >>
Flexible And Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia And Australian Anxiety
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 2:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Just as Australia would rather not see Pacific Island states form security friendly ties with China, an anxiety directed and dictated by Washington, it would also wish those in Southeast Asia to avoid the feelers of other countries supposedly unfriendly ... More >>
Gender Stunts In Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On their return, the female cast performed their contractual undertakings to bore the press with deadly clichés and meaningless observations, reducing space travel to an exercise for the trivial. More >>
Junk Science And Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project
Friday, 11 April 2025, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in identifying a form of predictive criminality perpetuates similar sins. The trend towards data heavy systems that supposedly offer insight into inherent, potential criminality has captured police departments ... More >>
Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War On Palestinian Health
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 12:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Since October 7, 2023, the death toll of health workers in the Gaza Strip has been impressively grim, reaching 1,060. Health facilities have been destroyed, with hundreds of attacks launched on health services. More >>
Withdrawal Symptoms: Hungary, Europe And The International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 11:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
On the arrival of the Israeli leader for a four-day visit, there was a conspicuous absence of any law officer or police official willing to discharge the duties of the Rome Statute. The reception for Netanyahu featured a welcoming ceremony at the ... More >>
Addressing Hate Speech And Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable In Africa
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is yet another example of holding the conduct of tech behemoths to account for the convulsive information ecosystem they have so blithely created and exploited. More >>
Closed For Business: The Oddities Of Trump’s Tariffs
Friday, 4 April 2025, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A baseline tariff of 10% was applied on goods imported by the US. Countries were then singled out for being particularly mischievous, in the eyes of the administration, not so much for having their own tariffs on US goods and products so much as having ... More >>
For The Love Of Landmines: European States Exit The Ottawa Convention
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 1:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the vibrant war chat that has gripped European capitals, the stockpiling and use of landmines is now being revisited as a genuine possibility. In its 2023 Landmine Monitor report, Human Rights Watch found that the active remnants of landmines killed ... More >>
