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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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Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma
Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 3:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While historical forces, local conditions and cultural idiosyncrasies will always guide the development of any state and community, there is something to be said that post-Cold War Russia might have taken something of a different path had Merry’s ... More >>
Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalise
Monday, 6 January 2025, 3:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Those with such records were also abundantly linked to far-right domestic extremist groups and movements (73.5%), while 15%, or 24 offenders, “were inspired by or connected to foreign Islamist extremist groups” such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic ... More >>
Frail Egos And Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, The United States And Invading Iraq
Saturday, 4 January 2025, 2:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What makes Australia’s own involvement even worse, was that the reason to go to war lay less in an international security threat than a weak ego and reputational yearning: to be cringingly worthy to Washington. More >>
Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators
Friday, 3 January 2025, 1:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In an echo of history, the current UK government has found a new man of transactional worth in Damascus. The great usurper, Jolani, has taken Bashar’s place. His Al Qaeda and Islamic State past is being strategically sanitised, the revolutionary ... More >>
Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports And Israel
Thursday, 2 January 2025, 1:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While the European Union dithers and stalls on responding to this subject, despite the ICJ’s interim rulings that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide, bureaucrats have been busy. More >>
Jimmy Carter, Israel And The Apartheid Question
Tuesday, 31 December 2024, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Beyond his stint in office, the tongue worked more easily, and opinions expressed with greater ease. Over time, for instance, he frowned with matronly disapproval at Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. More >>
Greenland Redux: Trump And America’s Continuing Obsession
Monday, 30 December 2024, 12:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen through sham contracts and undertakings. They might also ... More >>
Sinking Mike Pompeo: Tucker Carlson, Assange And Trump
Saturday, 28 December 2024, 2:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the return of Trump to the White House, whose campaign was aided by various figures sympathetic to Assange’s publishing efforts, the eyes shifted, once again, to Pompeo. Would the now leaner figure make a return, probably as Defense Secretary? ... More >>
Jesting On The Environment: Australian Mining Gets A Present
Thursday, 26 December 2024, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The institute pointed out that the three mines, in the current state of operation, “were already so large that they could almost cover greater Sydney, or most Australian cities.” More >>
Concentrated Markets And Iceless Fokkers
Monday, 23 December 2024, 1:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It’s a scheme that has become the central strategy of governments, administrative and corporate entities the world over. More >>
Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware And The Liability Of The NSO Group
Sunday, 22 December 2024, 5:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In this woefully unregulated industry, Israel’s poster child of spyware will most likely cough up and continue to make money from the pathologies of government insecurity. They will just have to be mindful of the US market from hereon in. More >>
The Strawman Of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ever the opportunist, Netanyahu saw a chance to see unsubstantiated links between the bombing in Melbourne, Australian foreign policy and antisemitism. The conclusion was childishly simple: “Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism.” More >>
Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 2:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israeli troops have militarised the demilitarised zone inside Syria created in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, including Mount Hermon, a site overlooking Damascus. More >>
Last Acts: Time For Biden To Pardon Assange
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Assange campaign has now shifted its focus to obtaining a pardon for the publisher, with a goal of persuading up to 30,000 people to write to US President Joe Biden to do just that. More >>
Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires
Monday, 16 December 2024, 8:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Media vultures in search of carrion see this ruling as remarkable – probably more so than it is. More >>
Finding The Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel And Genocide
Saturday, 14 December 2024, 2:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No amount of pedantry and disagreement can arrest the sense that Israel’s lethal conduct, whatever threshold it may reach in international law, is directed at destroying not merely Palestinian life but any worthwhile sense of a viable sovereignty. More >>
Ding Dong, Australia’s Misinformation-Disinformation Bill Is Dead
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Facing certain defeat, the Albanese government revealed its position a few days later. “Based on public statements and engagements with senators, it is clear that there is no pathway to legislate this proposal through the Senate,” conceded Communications ... More >>
The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 7:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Turkey's intervention in Syria’s conflict was motivated by 2 main goals: the containment, if not elimination, of Kurdish militants in northern Syria, & creating conditions of stability or “safe zones” that would enable a return of Syrian refugees when ... More >>
FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not all has been smooth on the matter of endorsing FIFA’s decision, at least at the level of various football organisations whose approval is also sought. But even there, Saudi sporting strategy has been in evidence to ensure a lack of dissent. More >>
The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For one, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has a series of goals. It purports to be an indigenous movement keen on eliminating the Assad regime, establishing Islamic rule and expelling all Iranian militias from Syrian soil. More >>
