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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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Bungling over Mladic: The Tribunal’s ‘unpleasant surprise’
Friday, 18 May 2012, 3:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The trials in the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia have had a habit of misfiring in its most high profile cases. Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic cheated the prosecutors with his well timed death after a four year period ... More >>
Hollande and Merkel: The Prospects for Disunion
Friday, 18 May 2012, 12:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Europe is, economically speaking, in dire straits, and the two most powerful economies on the continent are, at least on paper, led by individuals with considerable differences. More >>
Getting on the Bus: Obama and Same Sex Marriage
Monday, 14 May 2012, 6:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The gay marriage debate in New Jersey has gone national, with President Obama throwing his own hat in the ring with resounding approval for same-sex unions. Evangelicals are shuddering, and various pro-Obama supporters are shaking their heads. More >>
The Gibson Cauldron: Mobster Fantasies and Get the Gringo
Monday, 14 May 2012, 6:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was supposedly a trumpet blast signalling Mel Gibson’s return, but Get the Gringo was released straight to view-on-demand in the US having failed to make a decent theatrical run. (Indeed, it might even be said it made no run at all.) More >>
The Language of Occupation: The Greek Collapse
Friday, 11 May 2012, 11:54 am | Binoy Kampmark
I take to the streets and go to rallies but maybe I should go to parliament to blow my brains out. Dimitris Christoulas to a friend, Business Insider , Apr 5, 2012 More >>
BoJo’s Return: The London Mayoral Election
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 5:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When he first won the London Mayoral elections, writers threatened to leave in droves, have sex changes or become French. But Boris Johnson, known to many as BoJo, has been re-elected in a bitter and closely fought contest with his sparring partner ... More >>
The European Elections: The Assault on Austerity
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 5:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has been a busy weekend. France finds itself with a new president, its first socialist leader since François Mitterand left office in 1995. Greek voters flocked to the parties of the anti-bailout movement with indignant enthusiasm. The liberals seem ... More >>
The De-Civilising of Society: Apple Tax Avoidance
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
It’s been gaining traction in broad circles, but Charles Duhigg’s work on Apple and the iEconomy in the New York Times is alarming in its revelations, though few can claim to be too surprised by them. The world’s most profitable company is also ... More >>
Tymoshenko and Football
Saturday, 5 May 2012, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A familiar battle is unfolding between sports and politics, with various countries taking a stance on Ukraine’s treatment of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko. The choice of battleground is the Euro 2012 championships which are being co-hosted by the Ukraine ... More >>
Twenty Years On: Official Negligence, Rodney King, the Riots
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 10:13 am | Binoy Kampmark
Even after twenty years, the Los Angeles riots that were precipitated as a reaction to the Rodney King trial divide rather than affirm positions. So much in the pursuit of life’s answers lies in exposing errors rather than unearthing truths. The King ... More >>
Adult Certification Needed: Lady Gaga in South Korea
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
She has a habit of lousing up proceedings with a manic dedication. Now, Lady Gaga has overly impressed South Korean authorities and religious groups with her particular branding of religious interpretation and provocation. More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:48 am | Binoy Kampmark
One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously doddering manner after the closure of The News of ... More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Friday, 27 April 2012, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously ... More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Friday, 27 April 2012, 10:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously doddering manner after the closure of The News of ... More >>
A Silly Sort of Patriotism: Meditations on ANZAC Day
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 9:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
Anzac Day is a volatile dynamic phenomenon (that) will keep changing as we do David Malouf More >>
The Le Pen Factor: France’s Presidential Elections
Monday, 23 April 2012, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As with every election, the readers of the tea leaves often have a habit of misreading the signs. Illiteracy stumbles in. Confusion becomes its own most valued currency. The first round of the French presidential elections revealed that Marine Le Pen ... More >>
Softening the Metal: Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:11 am | Binoy Kampmark
Gore Vidal claimed that the second unfortunate thing to befall Abraham Lincoln was not merely his assassination but falling into the hands of biographer Carl Sandburg. With such hideous hagiography, the actual historical figure shrinks just as his myth ... More >>
The ACLU and Obama’s Assassination Program
Monday, 2 April 2012, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The policies around the assassination program of the United States are surreal. Trafficking in murder while espousing noble things is a habit regimes fall into, though the more sinister ones tend to use weasel words to conceal that fact. More >>
Binoy Kampmark: George Galloway and the Bradford Spring
Monday, 2 April 2012, 11:34 am | Binoy Kampmark
A looney, inhabiting a distant planet. A bomb thrower. A parliamentary absentee. Many things have been directed at George Galloway of the Respect Party, a few deserved. But when it came to his astonishing success in the polls in the Bradford West by-election, ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Civilian Policing: Killing Trayvon Martin
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 1:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
'Civilian Policing: Killing Trayvon Martin and Neighbourhood Watch' A hundred years of lynching, justifiable homicide. Same thing. Protester’s sign, Sanford, Mar 21, 2012 More >>
