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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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Committing Suicide in Fear of Death: The Greek Referendum
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The patient is now well on the way to committing suicide. But the patient was suffering what was amounting to a terminal illness in any case. Greece has decided to throw another spanner into the works of world finance, calling a referendum on its five-day-old ... More >>
Going ‘Rogue’ in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Civilising missions are always fraught with danger, especially when the subjects of the effort are less than interested, if not openly hostile. Time and time again, the coalition forces in Afghanistan have shown themselves to be unable to forge an ... More >>
Going Mad at Qantas: Industrial Relations Down Under
Monday, 31 October 2011, 11:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
Qantas is at war with its employees. The battle for supremacy over wages and operations of the Australian airline has moved to its penultimate phase: a grounding of the world fleet of 108 aircraft in 22 airports across the globe. 68,000 customers have ... More >>
The Seven Dwarves in Action: The Irish Presidential Election
Sunday, 30 October 2011, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Elections are often affairs where the bored vote for the dull. The disaffected non-voter has become the set piece of elections the world over, and one is simply relieved to get an election that boasts some measure of colour. More >>
The China Solution: Saving the Eurozone from Implosion
Friday, 28 October 2011, 4:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The eurozone geniuses of delusion who gathered in Brussels this week to deal with the ever deepening crisis in Greece have come up with a plan that suggests how cock-eyed the financial system has become. Europe is now going global with an appeal for alms, ... More >>
Gangsters for Capitalism: Moving in on Libya
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 3:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Market liberalisation is the new message of the punch-drunk victors in Libya (if, indeed, victory has been attained). Gaddafi is dead, the Islamic socialist who managed to combine a worship of Allah with socialism and spiritual eccentricity. But the ... More >>
Saving a Country: The All Blacks at Eden Park
Monday, 24 October 2011, 2:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For so long, a nation that has produced a string of outstanding rugby sides has stumbled at the last hurdle. Gods take it upon themselves to destroy those they deem gifted. The World Cup is hardly something that populates the otherwise stacked All-Back trophy ... More >>
Battling the Mushrooms: Murdoch in Los Angeles
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 2:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The emperor might be jaded after the phone hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the News of the World , but he remains as immoveable as a Bourbon monarch. Rupert Murdoch did battle with shareholders at the annual News Corp. meeting in Los Angeles ... More >>
Ways of Dying: The End of Muammar Gaddafi
Friday, 21 October 2011, 10:23 am | Binoy Kampmark
The words of the human rights lawyer and spokesman for the National Transitional Council, Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, were stated with chilling effect and certainty. ‘Our revolutionaries managed to get the head of the tyrant, who has met his fate and destiny ... More >>
Blowing up the Ambassador: Terror Chat and Tehran
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It’s all the rage at the moment, and seems to resemble something from the lunatic fringe of policy. Two men have been charged in the US over a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir. More >>
Nightmare in New Zealand: The Astrolabe Reef Disaster
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has all the makings of a growing catastrophe. The 236m Rena, inclined and spilling oil into pristine seas on Astrolabe Reef 14 miles off Tauranga, New Zealand, providing a murderous cargo that has already killed hundreds of fish and sea birds. Three tug ... More >>
Globalising the Occupation: Wall Street and the World
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It all began without a body, without a party, without even, it seems, a program. A day of rage against the iniquitous financial system was being organised in the Manhattan Financial District in the spring of this year to take place in September. More >>
The Jobs Factor: The Cult of Apple
Monday, 10 October 2011, 5:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One gets giddy just hearing it, let alone reading the gushing material. There are the camped queues, the nerd proselytes, the apps mongers and ‘fanboys’. The cult of Apple, the cult of chic, and the fashionable. The passing of Steve Jobs, innovator ... More >>
Those Damned Games: The Delhi Farce
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 4:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Large scaled sporting events are a costly business. They dislocate populations. They drain treasuries with stunning efficiency. They have a nasty tendency of producing white elephants with dreary predictability. So now, the pictures keep coming about ... More >>
The Acquittal of ‘Foxy Knoxy’
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 1:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The wheels of justice, poorly oiled and laborious, continue to turn in Italy as Amanda Knox, touted to be ‘Foxy Knoxy’, had her murder conviction of December 2009 overturned, along with that of Raffaele Sollecito, a state of affairs that stunned the family ... More >>
Back to Death Commissions: Case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Monday, 3 October 2011, 2:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It seemed like a bright vision. And that was primarily because it did not feature President George W. Bush. But here, the Obama administration has undertaken what it said it would not do – run trials before military commissions it promised it ... More >>
Battling Bollywood: Bangladesh’s Seduction by Celluloid
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 3:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Since 1972, Bangladesh has been firm about the films of the monster that we all know as Bollywood, a beast so prolific it disgorges some thousand films a year. No viewings of Bollywood films have been permitted in Bangladesh’s cinemas – till ... More >>
British Labour, Balls or Balls-up: The Austerity Obsession
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 10:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
He is not a popular man, a person who reminds the economically worn British about another era: the era of New Labour, where the swagger and self-confidence beamed with an almost reckless indifference. Ed Balls, Britain’s opposition financial ... More >>
The Business with Flags: Copulating under the Southern Cross
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 10:05 am | Binoy Kampmark
What a bit of silliness. The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and her partner, Tim Matthieson, are being persistently lampooned in merciless fashion in Amanda Bishop’s ABC production At Home with Julia. But wherever one stands on Bishop’s taste, the ... More >>
The Killing of Troy Davis
Monday, 26 September 2011, 5:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Troy Davis is dead by the hand of the state. He was passing his years on death row since 1991, when he was convicted for the murder of Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail. More >>
