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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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Protecting The Merchants Of Death: The Police Effort For Land Forces 2024
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 11. Melbourne. The scene: the area between Spencer Street Bridge and the Batman Park-Spencer Street tram stop. Heavily armed police, with glinting face coverings and shields, had seized and blocked the bridge over the course of the morning, preventing ... More >>
Beware The Derogators: The Geneva Conventions Turn 75
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Better, it would seem, a world with the Geneva Conventions than one without them. What is needed, Policinski reminds us, “is not more or different rules” but “better respect for existing rules, something all states have a stake in.” More >>
Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness On AUKUS
Sunday, 25 August 2024, 2:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For those who hold the reins in Canberra, the march to war amidst the false sounding notes of peace is not only inevitable but desirable. More >>
Apologists For Rape: The Sde Teiman Protests
Friday, 23 August 2024, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The unit was also involved in a violent disruption at the Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert, where detained Palestinians from the Gaza Strip had been subjected to various forms of torture and maltreatment. More >>
Violating The Sherman Act: Google’s Illegal Monopoly
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia found that Google acted as a monopoly in its “general search” and “general search text advertising” markets and had breached Section 2 of the Sherman Act ... More >>
Wellness As Tyranny: The Cult Of Toxic Happiness
Monday, 19 August 2024, 12:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Unhappiness has become the hunted enemy, and stomped upon. The time has come for a constructive sense of informed unhappiness to take over, the sulky, the gravely sullen and the profoundly introspective to have their time in necessary bleakness. ... More >>
Tactical Paranoia: Peter Dutton’s Palestinian Problem
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Coalition opposition to granting visas to Palestinians voicing support for Hamas is also implausible in another respect. While claiming to be defenders of that most weaselly of terms, “social cohesion”, Dutton and his stormtroopers seek to demolish ... More >>
Bloody Eschatology: Israel And The Next Big War
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 1:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. More >>
Resisting AUKUS: The Paul Keating Formula
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 5:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From his own redoubt of critical inquiry, the former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has made fighting the imperialising leprosy of the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the United States a matter of solemn duty. More >>
AUKUS Revamped: The Complete Militarisation Of Australia
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 4:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The deeper incorporation of Australia’s own military requirements into the US military complex “across land, maritime, air, and space domains, as well as the Combined Logistics, Sustainment, and Maintenance Enterprise” will allow US military forces ... More >>
Tim Walz For Veep: Barely Noticed Or Noticeable
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 12:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Walz may have an advantage insofar as he is utterly unknown to the voters that will swing the election. Outside his state, he is clean, cold tabula rasa and utterly without distinction. The figure of no record can create something anew. More >>
The ASIO Astrologers: Terror Threats And Radicalisation Down Under
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 1:22 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The director general of ASIO, Australia’s domestic intelligence service, is very much of the belief that drumming up threats is indispensable. To that end, Mike Burgess is proving to be one of the most garrulous chiefs of what is otherwise a secretive ... More >>
Political Pretence: The Democrats And The Palestinians
Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 11:08 am | Binoy Kampmark
The fact that the Democrats currently occupy the White House has done little to ruffle the equation of blood and gore in the Middle East, notably regarding the fate of the Palestinians. More >>
Kamala Harris: Papier-mâché Coronation
Saturday, 3 August 2024, 7:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The idea of a valid contest within the party has well withered on the vine, adding even more succour to the authoritarian varnish Harris’ critics identify as critical. The sycophantic celebration of her presumptive nominee status adds even more of a ... More >>
Assange, CIA Surveillance And Spain’s Audencia Nacional
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 12:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
US officials have persisted in their reticent attitude, refusing to cooperate with Spain’s national high court, the Audiencia Nacional, regarding its investigation into the Agency’s espionage operations against the publisher, spearheaded by the ... More >>
Greasing Palms: The Thales Blueprint For Corruption
Tuesday, 30 July 2024, 6:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As Bernard Keane of the Australian publication Crikey observes, “bribery might be a tool in Thales’ arsenal for dealing with defence officials around the world, along with stringing out negotiations for its own ends and refusing to comply with ... More >>
The Olympic Games: Perennially Costly And Always Over Budget
Sunday, 28 July 2024, 5:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For the budget-minded types, the Olympics, and analogous monumental sporting events, continue to lose their appeal – along with the finances. The extortionate strain on the public wallet, the bleeding of funds from budgets, has made them most unattractive ... More >>
Rwanda Elections' Foregone Conclusions: Paul Kagame Retains Power
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 2:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whatever the broader stated goals of Kagame for his country, he remains motivated by a desire to preserve the position of the Tutsis, keeping the rival Hutus in check. Ethnicity, far from vanishing as a consideration, retains an aggressively beating ... More >>
Puppet Realisations: Biden Stands Aside
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 9:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten and harried into leaving the way open for another candidate. It involved some movement of political furniture, ... More >>
Conventional Wisdom: The ICJ Ruling On Israeli Settlements
Monday, 22 July 2024, 2:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given the avalanche of international opinions, deliberation and understanding on the status of the settlements that arose after 1967, the ICJ was merely revising homework and reiterating home truths of international law. More >>
