Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.

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In Westminster At Last: The Threat Of Nigel Farage

Monday, 8 July 2024, 1:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Farage is already promising rapacious raids into enemy territory. “We are coming for Labour … be in no doubt about that.” While eschewing notions of working with the Conservatives, he offered an olive branch by way of invitation: Tory members ... More >>

Massacre At The Ballot: The Punishing Of The Tories

Sunday, 7 July 2024, 3:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Given that Labour proved the largest beneficiary of a voting system that should only ever apply in a two-way contest and given the prospect of Reform and the Greens posing ever greater threats from either wing of politics, appetite for electoral reform ... More >>

The US Supreme Court Outs The Imperial Presidency

Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 1:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The US Supreme Court has much to answer for. In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and legislature. Of late, the judges have seemingly confused that role. More >>

Assange’s Return To Australia: The Resentment Of The Hacks

Monday, 1 July 2024, 1:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark

His return to Australia after striking a plea deal with the US Department of Justice sees him in a state with some of the most onerous secrecy provisions of any in the Western world. More >>

Hunted Biden: The First Presidential Debate Disaster

Sunday, 30 June 2024, 12:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark

While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden seemed a vanishing shadow, longing for soft slippers and the fireplace with cocoa, a case of comfort rather ... More >>

Assange’s Release: Exposing The Craven Media Stable

Friday, 28 June 2024, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of the Fourth Estate have always preferred to remain uncritical of power and ... More >>

The Release Of Julian Assange: Plea Deals And Dark Legacies

Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 1:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Alleged to have committed 18 offences, 17 novelly linked to the odious Espionage Act, the June 2020 superseding indictment against Assange was a frontal assault on the freedoms of publishing and discussing classified government information. More >>

DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate For Murder And Torture

Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark

DINA was, according to the decree, created for “the purpose of producing intelligence collection requirements for the formulation of policies, plans and adoption of measures required for the security and development of the country”. More >>

Victory For The Disposables: The Sentencing Of The Hindujas

Monday, 24 June 2024, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark

On June 21, four members of the Hinduja family, the UK’s wealthiest according to the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated value of £37.196 billion, were convicted in a Swiss court of first instance for exploiting staff at their Geneva ... More >>

Quibbling About Killing: Netanyahu’s Spat With Washington

Saturday, 22 June 2024, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

No longer could Israel be seen to be self-sufficiently impregnable, its defences firmly holding against all adversaries. In a perverse twist on that dilemma, a strong ally providing support is bound to be resented. More >>

Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves The War Cabinet

Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet, which had served as a checking forum against the conventional security cabinet, presented a perfect opportunity for those who felt his presence stifling. More >>

Ukraine, Continued Aid, And The Prevailing Logic Of Slaughter

Saturday, 15 June 2024, 8:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark

With Ukraine looking desperately bloodied at the hands of their Russian counterparts, the horizon of the conflict had seemingly shrunk of late. Fatigue and desperation had set in. More >>

Diamonds And Cold Dust: Slaughter At Nuseirat

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:22 am | Binoy Kampmark

The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity’s gloomy archive. It was intended as a golden operation and had been months in the making. More >>

The Eu Elections: The March Of The Right

Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 12:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogeneous in any sense, nor hoping for a single theme of triumph. More >>

Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning Of Hindutva

Saturday, 8 June 2024, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Whatever Modi’s sweet words for the Indian republic, there was no getting away from the fact Hindutva’s juggernaut has lost its shine. More >>

Tory Nightmares: The Return Of Nigel Farage

Thursday, 6 June 2024, 12:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. More >>

Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems And Australia’s Future Fund

Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The findings gave Shoebridge a chance to spray the board administering the fund with gobbets of chastening wisdom. “The Future Fund is meant to benefit future generations. That rings hollow when they are investing in companies making equipment that ends ... More >>