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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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Exploiting Useful Enemies: Ukraine In Hungary’s Elections
Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 1:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Orbán project has been electorally successful but tends to create false gods of exaggerated potency. The threat transmutes into a villainous figure one can almost sympathise with. More >>
Omissions On A Cruel Trade: The Neglected Role Of African Slavers
Monday, 6 April 2026, 3:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The historical role of slavery in various African kingdoms is an extensive one, continental, sprawling and international. While there was demand in Europe and the Americas, there were more than willing suppliers. More >>
Food Time Bombs And Predicted Starvation: The Prospects Of A Hormuz Transit Deal
Sunday, 5 April 2026, 5:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even if some arrangement spectrally reminiscent of the Black Sea Initiative was to get off the ground and through the water, it would only haphazardly deal with a crisis that is increasingly crippling for vulnerable global populations. More >>
Executing With Prejudice: Israel’s Death Penalty Law
Saturday, 4 April 2026, 7:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This bill is but the start of a series of measures signalling Israel’s intention to further limit Palestinian resistance to its predations with punitive finality. More >>
Closing Air Spaces And Cracking Alliances: Trump’s Growing Problem With Allies
Thursday, 2 April 2026, 2:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As has become customary, US President Donald Trump has led the growls of grievance, billowing with anger on Truth Social about the reluctance of European partners to throw in their lot in what is, at best, a criminal enterprise. More >>
Inspiring The Authentic Journalist: The Pentagon’s Renewed Attack On Press Credentials
Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 2:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The irony there is that the Pentagon media pack do not, for the most part, need to be encouraged by such feeding practices. They normally swallow the slop and staple whole. More >>
Bring On The Iranian Nuke
Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 3:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite these celebratory self-awarded accolades, Israel and the United States would initiate a savage and ongoing encore that began on February 28, with Trump again stating that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon. More >>
The Iran War: A Great Carbon Emitter
Monday, 30 March 2026, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Along with the staining criminality of those who have soiled the peace, climate change is exactly one of those things, something that will storm back to the fore with menacing consequences. More >>
Auguries Of Failure: Israel Invades Lebanon, Yet Again
Friday, 27 March 2026, 1:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The order of the day is historical repetition, with hard lessons ignored and vengeance favoured. The hateful heart can hunger and prove insatiable. More >>
Operation Epic Fury And US Unreadiness For War
Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 1:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Iran War is all but confirming that; the unready have been found wanting. More >>
More Parleying Nonsense: Trump, Iran And Promised Negotiations
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did little to fan the dust away, claiming that Trump and the Pentagon had “predicted it would take approximately 4-6 weeks to achieve this mission.” More >>
No Naval Escort For Trump: US Allies And The Strait Of Hormuz
Friday, 20 March 2026, 1:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or dictating. More >>
Opportunistic Asylum: How Australia Exploited The Iranian Women’s Football Team
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 1:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
That display was all the more contemptible given that Australia was in wholehearted agreement with the illegal attack on Iran, having refused to call it a breach of the United Nations Charter. More >>
Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait And Agricultural Shock
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is abundantly clear that the planners behind the war on Iran have shown themselves both contemptible and inept in appreciating that fact. More >>
Costly And Depleting: The Growing Problems Of Operation Epic Fury
Sunday, 15 March 2026, 5:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Washington is battling through the another malady Trump had once campaigned against: the debilitating entanglement of a foreign war with ill-defined objectives involving a resourceful, obstinate foe. More >>
Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz
Friday, 13 March 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Through an approach of existential attrition, the clerical regime in Tehran is now causing shocks and tingles in the global market, striking where influence is strongest: the petrol pump, the cash register, the hip pocket. More >>
Middle Power Nonsense: Australia, Canada And Capitulating To The Iran War
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 3:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
So far, the middling powers have not gotten far. In fact, they have shown themselves despicably fawning and incapable of taking a stance on the legality of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. More >>
Starmer’s Self-Defence Fudge: The UK’s Growing Involvement In The Iran War
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The public inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the war, chaired by John Chilcot, noted that “the circumstances in which it was decided there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from satisfactory”. More >>
Doctrine And Proliferation: France, Forward Deterrence And Going Backwards
Monday, 9 March 2026, 1:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whether it is put down to Russia or the Iran War, neither of which justifies matters, the genie of nuclear proliferation is truly out of the bottle and running amok. More >>
It’s About Children And Education: Melania Trump At The UN Security Council
Saturday, 7 March 2026, 3:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As the UN, with its viscera, becomes increasingly confined to sepulchral functions, eyeing the tomb of international institutions, the mad in power are showing, at least for the moment, that they are setting and settling scores. More >>
