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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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Cultural Cover-Up: The Sydney Opera House Turns 50
Monday, 23 October 2023, 5:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Commemorative occasions are often draped in fatty platitudes. Within such platitudes lie excuses and apologies. People are celebrated after the fact, not for their faults but for their virtues. It’s just the polite thing to do. At the time of their achievement, ... More >>
Rambo’s Pacific Peace Zone
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 8:27 am | Binoy Kampmark
There has always been something impressive, if slightly idiosyncratic, about political ideas emanating from Pacific states. In recent years, on the world’s largest body of water, the various island states seeing themselves as part of the Blue Pacific ... More >>
Fruitless Gestures: Victoria Bans The Nazi Salute
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 1:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It took place with hardly any debate, though it interested some parliamentary members at the committee stage. The Australian state of Victoria now faces laws that will lock a person up for 12 months or punish individuals with fines of A$23,000 or above ... More >>
A Losing Voice: The Fall Of An Indigenous Referendum Measure
Sunday, 15 October 2023, 7:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in dire straits. Referenda proposals are rarely successful in Australia: prior to October 14, 44 referenda had ... More >>
Violence Against Human Animals: Images From The Israel-Hamas War
Saturday, 14 October 2023, 9:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the body count rising in this latest, and particularly bloody Israel-Hamas War, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has now been annexed to Israel the just warrior State, fighting darkness and primaeval stone age barbarism. ... More >>
Breaking Bread At The Terminus Of Learning
Friday, 13 October 2023, 7:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Let this be a lesson to you students. You are now coming to the end of another semester, arbitrarily designated as having an even number of weeks, crammed with a range of objectives that no doubt most of you have not met. For one thing, you did not read. ... More >>
Indecency’s Conspiracy Of Silence: Hamas, Israel And The Use Of Force
Monday, 9 October 2023, 11:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
Shock and horror. But to and for whom? At 6.30 am on October 7, the State of Israel was certainly in shock. From the south, its citizens faced attacks by, as news reports put it, air, sea and land executed by the Islamic militant group Hamas. Within a ... More >>
Nuclear-Powered Fixations: The Trump-Pratt Disclosures
Saturday, 7 October 2023, 8:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In April 2021, the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt had a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. According to an ABC News report , “Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, ... More >>
Modi’s Cricket Ploy: Hindutva As Twelfth Man
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 2:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This week, the International Cricket Council’s One Day International tournament will commence in India. The man who will take centre stage during the occasion will be Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, whose earthly attributes are fast becoming, ... More >>
Dianne Feinstein: National Security State Diva
Monday, 2 October 2023, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The tributes for the late Democratic Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, heaped up as word got out. Having served as San Francisco mayor and a senator for three decades from what, on paper at least, is meant to be a progressive state, Feinstein ... More >>
Flagging Support: Zelenskyy Loses Favour In Washington
Sunday, 1 October 2023, 7:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Things did not go so well this time around. When the worn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned up banging on the doors of Washington’s powerful on September 21, he found fewer open hearts and an increasingly large number of closed wallets. ... More >>
Cruel Prerogatives: Braverman On Refugees At The AEI
Friday, 29 September 2023, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Suella Braverman has made beastliness a trait in British politics. The UK Home Secretary, fed on the mush and mash of anti-refugee sentiment, has been frantically trying to find her spot in the darkness of inhumanity. Audaciously, and with grinding ignorance, ... More >>
Imperial Footprints In Africa: The Dismal Role Of AFRICOM
Monday, 25 September 2023, 7:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No power in history has exercised such global reach. With brutal immediacy, forces from the United States may be dispatched and deployed within hours to combat any designated adversary. From its webbed network of bases official, semi-official and ... More >>
Fighting The Diaspora: India’s Campaign Against Khalistan
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 1:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Diaspora politics can often be testy. While the mother country maintains its own fashioned narrative, governed by domestic considerations, the diaspora may, or may not be in accord with the agreed upon story. While countries such as China and Iran ... More >>
Brief For Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
Monday, 18 September 2023, 12:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in ... More >>
Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On
Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 2:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an annual event. In the words of US President George W. Bush, it was an attack on “our very freedom”. The US had been targeted ... More >>
Ukraine’s Bandera Itch
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 7:10 am | Binoy Kampmark
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “special military operation” with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the country’s stables of Nazis. As with so many instances ... More >>
Children In Police Watch Houses: A Nasty Queensland Experiment
Friday, 8 September 2023, 7:05 am | Binoy Kampmark
They really are a brutal lot. While the Queensland Labor Government croons on matters regarding rights, liberties and, it should be said, the plight of the First Nations Peoples, its policy, notably on youth detention, is a contradictory abomination. ... More >>
Educating The US Imperium: Australia’s Mission For Assange
Wednesday, 6 September 2023, 2:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
An odder political bunch you could not find, at least when it comes to pursuing a single goal. Given that the goal is the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange makes it all the more striking. Six Australian parliamentarians of various stripes ... More >>
Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest And Climate Change
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 9:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On August 1, protesters against the Burrup Hub expansion in Western Australia, a project of one of Australia’s most ruthless fossil fuel companies, took to the Perth home of its CEO, Meg O’Neill. The CEO of Woodside was not impressed. In fact, ... More >>
