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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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Ted Turner: The Devil Behind Cable News
Monday, 11 May 2026, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The argument about cable television news ever being factual is a moot point. CNN’s coverage of the 1991 Gulf War only served to illustrate how subservient a news outlet could be to official narratives. More >>
Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom
Friday, 8 May 2026, 2:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As with everything in this cerebrally cloudy and foolish conflict, descriptions and names are untethered to a discernible reality. Was Project Freedom separate from the blockade of Iran? Yes, said certain administration officials. More >>
The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy And Abduction On The High Seas
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel’s attempts to stifle the focus on Gaza has not worked, though the authorities were careful, unlike their previous violent outing of piracy and abduction, not to detain Thunberg longer than was needed. More >>
Dangers To The Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index
Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The authoritarian regimes have done little to move up the index. China remains confidently oppressive of reporters at 178, with North Korea stoutly taking the spot below. More >>
Brussels, Russia And The Venice Biennale: Art As Politics And Hypocrisy
Monday, 4 May 2026, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The reasoning fashioned against the Russian participants is a most troubling reading of the artistic temperament. If artists are to be reduced to the same culpability as their political leaders, what does it say about their art? More >>
Show Me The Money: A Loutish Administration Confronts A Craven Congress
Friday, 1 May 2026, 12:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The business of the United States is business, and it follows, money. Cut the money supply, and, at the very least, leave the war mongers grumpy. Along the way, Trump’s opponents might find their mislaid backbones. More >>
Starmer’s Silly Talking Points: King Charles III Visits Washington
Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 2:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Starmer, as advisor-in-chief, clearly fed the monarch a rather odd assortment of dishes to temper and placate the businessman tyrant trainee. More >>
Ideas Of Expulsion: Trump, NATO And Spain
Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 4:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Of all the allies, Spain has proven a model objector, arguing that the pre-emptive war launched by Israel and the US on February 28 was and remains illegal. More >>
The Minilateralist Incentive: A Climate Change Conference In Colombia
Sunday, 26 April 2026, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The format of the conference purposely departs from the clumsy, ungainly model of the COP talks. The gathering is smaller and winnowed of any potential saboteurs and fossil fuel touters. More >>
Defiling Statues Of Jesus: Israel’s Counterfeit Outrage At Cultural Vandalism
Friday, 24 April 2026, 12:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The smashed statue of Jesus has received a worthy replacement, though not in the form of the IDF offering, which proved smaller and less proximate in appearance to the original More >>
Space Loos, Lunar Exploitation And Colonial Escapism: The Artemis II Mission
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 2:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Colonial pursuits are often preceded by the spirit of discovery, economic reconnaissance, inquiry. Then comes the appropriation, the brazen theft, the seizure wrapped in the jolly packaging of blood, civilisation and empire. More >>
Troubled Relations: Pope Leo XIV And President Donald Trump
Tuesday, 21 April 2026, 1:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Pope Leo XIV, for his part, has become increasingly perturbed by President Donald Trump’s metamorphosis from an alleged eschewer of war to that of a spluttering warlord. More >>
Confused Closures And Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas In The Hormuz Strait
Sunday, 19 April 2026, 5:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Increasingly, the US imperium is resembling a paper tiger, incapable of stalking and capturing its far more resourceful prey. More >>
Putting The Calamity Makers In Charge: Anthropic And Claude Mythos Preview
Saturday, 18 April 2026, 4:46 am | Binoy Kampmark
What a fine picture this is turning out to be. And there are the questions on Anthropic’s reliability here. Will it be as good at finding vulnerabilities as fixing them, acting as both poacher and gamekeeper? More >>
Ceasefire Exemptions And Quarries Of Death: Israel’s War On Lebanon
Saturday, 11 April 2026, 4:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The momentum is against Israel, however slow the turning. More >>
Trump, Hegseth And The Language Of War Crimes
Thursday, 9 April 2026, 1:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Far from being unbecoming aberrations, these comments from Trump and Hegseth are not out of character in the history of American warfare. More >>
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 >>
