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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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Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged?
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 12:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump was never going to be anything other than optimistic about the result. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images,” he blustered. “Obliteration is an accurate term!” More >>
A Vassal’s Impulse: Australia Backs US Strike On Iran
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Albanese government has shown not only historical illiteracy but an amnesia on the matter. Unfortunately, it’s the sort of amnesia that has become contagious, afflicting a goodly number of Washington’s satellites, vassals and friendly states. More >>
The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise Of War
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 1:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The centrepiece of the Hague Summit Declaration is a promise that 5% of member countries’ gross GDP will go to “core defence requirements as well as defence and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations”. More >>
Hastie’s Sensible Advice: More Transparency On US Forces In Australia
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Australian government had “long and full knowledge and concurrence arrangements in relation to America’s force posture in Australia, not just in relation to Pine Gap, but in relation to all of its force posture in Australia. More >>
Directive To Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good
Monday, 23 June 2025, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The joining of the United States in the war against Iran made Washington a co-conspirator to soiling international law and profaning its salient provisions. More >>
Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran And Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Rather than chastise Israel for committing a crime against peace, Iran was chided for exercising a retaliatory right that arose the moment Israeli weaponry started striking targets across the country on June 12. A villain had been identified, but ... More >>
Shelling The Aid Seekers: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Project In Gaza
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The previous day, 34 people awaiting to collect food were killed by IDF personnel near an aid centre operated by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a body whose dubious credentials never cease to amaze. More >>
Self-Defence And Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams Of Regime Change
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 1:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The pre-emptive, illegal strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure by Israel was not merely an attempt to arrest an alleged existential threat from yielding fruit (that weapons of mass destruction canard again); it was also a murderous exercise ... More >>
Condemning The Right To Self-Defence: Iran’s Retaliation And Israel’s Privilege
Monday, 16 June 2025, 7:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The calculus regarding the use of force by Israel vis-à-vis its adversaries has long been a sneaky one. It is jigged and rigged in favour of the Jewish state. More >>
Rogue States And Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 3:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The broader Israeli logic here is less the coherence of the nuclear threat than one of settling scores and crippling a rival it has long accused of directing operations against its interests, if not directly than through its proxy militias. More >>
AUKUS: A Very Antipodean Stupidity
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 2:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Washington’s interests come first, and Australia’s own idiotically misplaced interests are barely visible in the White House situation room. More >>
The Morality Of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers
Friday, 13 June 2025, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One point is certainly true: the selective moves against the dastardly two leaves the murderous apparatus intact, and the IDF war machine undiminished. Most of all, it will do nothing to halt the construction of a single settlement or save a single ... More >>
Catching Israel Out: Gaza And The Madleen “Selfie” Protest
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
As the formalities are being chewed over, the broader designation of the effort by the Madleen and her crew as those of a “selfie yacht” offer the pool’s reflection to Israeli authorities. More >>
Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias In Gaza
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With Hamas now the target and sworn enemy, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu feels that the same, failed experiment adopted at stages since the 1970s can be replicated: backing and encouraging yet another group of Palestinians to undermine any sovereign ... More >>
The Inevitable Souring: Elon Musk Falls Out With Donald Trump
Friday, 6 June 2025, 12:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump’s response to Musk’s latest gobbet of accusation proved almost melancholic. “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago.” He went on to praise “one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress.” More >>
Off To War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 12:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite a mammoth majority and a dramatically diminished Tory opposition, the Prime Minister acts like a man permanently besieged, his Labour Party seemingly less popular than Typhoid Mary. His inability to be unequivocal to questions of whether he will ... More >>
Thieves In The Kitchen: The Stealing Of Recipes
Monday, 2 June 2025, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Iconoclastic Jonathan Meades rightly notes that the pathology of originality arises from the emergence of the cult chef, the God creator in the kitchen. More >>
Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 8:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In both practice and spirit, this seedy, cynical enterprise violates the four essential principles of humanitarian action: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. More >>
Roads To War: The EU’s Security Action For Europe Fund
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 2:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The broader militarisation agenda is confirmed by linking SAFE with broader transatlantic engagement and “complementarity with NATO.” More >>
Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan And Operation Sindoor
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 7:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
The only ones to be notably ignored in this display of subcontinental machismo were the Kashmiris themselves, who face, in both the Pakistan and Indian administered zones, oppressive anti-terrorism laws, discriminatory practices and suppression of ... More >>
