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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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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 >>
Ming Vase Politics: UK Labour And Purging The Corbynistas
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 12:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Riling, obstructing and barring such figures serves to cloud the message, impairing an electoral effort that may, ironically enough, see the Ming Vase slip out of Starmer’s desperate hands. More >>
The Stuffing Of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Israeli response to attacks on its citizens on October 7 last year, increasingly enfeebled by reality, long ago moved into the realm of farce. More >>
Soaking Sunak Calls The Sodding Election
Friday, 31 May 2024, 5:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
On July 4, the United Kingdom will be going to the polls. More >>
A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence In New Caledonia
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
Much of the violence, stimulated by pressing inequalities and propelled by more youthful protestors, have caught the political establishment flatfooted. Even Kanak pro-independence leaders have urged such protestors to resist resorting to violence in favour of political ... More >>
Australia’s Anti-ICC Lobby
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 1:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite being an enthusiastic signatory and ratifier of conventions, Canberra has tended to blot its copybook over the years in various key respects. More >>
A Misplaced Purity: Democracies And Crimes Against International Law
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In this context, the application for warrants regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, merits particular interest. More >>
The Assange Case: A Flicker Of Hope In The UK High Court
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It remains to be seen whether this legal victory for the ailing Australian will yield a sweet harvest rather than the bitter fruit it has. He remains Britain’s most prominent political prisoner, refused bail and subject to jailing conditions vicariously ... More >>
Promising The Impossible: Blinken’s Out Of Tune Performance In Kyiv
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 1:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even by the standards of US Secretaries of States, Blinken’s conduct in Kyiv proved brazen and shameless. More >>
A Brutal Punishment: The Sentencing Of David McBride
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 6:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
McBride is the only one to be convicted in the context of alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, not for their commission, but for furnishing documentation exposing them, including the connivance of a sullied leadership. The world of whistleblowing ... More >>
Dodging The Issue: The Biden Administration Report On Israel’s Use Of US Weapons
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 3:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a pitiful dodge, the report claims it is “difficult to determine facts on the ground in an active war zone”, a state of mind that is bound to lend itself to justifications. “The nature of the conflict in Gaza and the compressed review period ... More >>
A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
Sunday, 12 May 2024, 2:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Some clue of what will happen when the matter comes up for discussion in the Security Council can already be gathered by the sinking of a previous resolution for Palestinian admission last month. More >>
A Modest Proposal: The UN General Assembly and Palestinian Recognition
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite being described in some circles as such, the latest vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine’s status is hardly extraordinary. For one, it does not vest the Palestinian territories with statehood but burnishes its credentials ... More >>
Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering Of Al Jazeera
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 4:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Going after the motley press and news outlets while claiming to be a card-carrying member of the democracy club is far from prudent and more than a touch foolish, bound to make the critics croak and other fellow members decry. More >>
Forces Of Impunity: The US Threatens The International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 11:19 am | Binoy Kampmark
Far from threatening democracies of whatever flavour, the actions of the ICC can serve the opposite purpose, holding individuals in high office accountable for egregious crimes in international law. More >>
