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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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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 >>
Natural Disasters & Facebook’s Information Scrub
Sunday, 3 September 2023, 6:06 am | Binoy Kampmark
Australia experienced this in February 2021. Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government. To teach Canberra mandarins a lesson, it literally unfriended the entire country, scrubbing all news ... More >>
A Killing Design: Osprey Fatalities In The Top End
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In 2022, the US Army selected Bell Textron’s tiltrotor V280 as its Black Hawk replacement. This caused more than a few eyebrows to rise in consternation. The V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, flown by the Marine Corps and Special Operations Command, has had ... More >>
Whitewashing Down Under: The Vietnam War Fifty Years On
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 12:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Vietnam War tormented and tore the societies who saw fit to participate in it. It defined a generation culturally and politically in terms creative and fractious. And it showed up the rulers to be ignorant rather than bright; blundering fools rather ... More >>
Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 12:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
We know what the regime is like. Starving a country, bombing its hospitals and strafing its schools has been minor fare for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The population of Yemen has found this out to their colossal cost. Add to this the killing of dissident ... More >>
Looting The Looters: Theft At The British Museum
Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 12:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation that the British Museum has been suffering a number of such cases with some smugness. ... More >>
Cuts At The Australian Antarctic Division
Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 8:20 am | Binoy Kampmark
Australia’s funding priorities have been utterly muddled of late. At the Commonwealth level, there is cash to be found in every conceivable place to support every absurd military venture, as long as it targets those hideous authoritarians in Beijing. ... More >>
Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair And Scholz’s Pate
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 2:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was a shallow affair. Reputed to have exceptionally poor hairdo, the figure who became one of Europe’s, and indeed one of the globe’s most lasting and influential politicians, inspired memes aplenty for what she sported on her bonce. The teases, ... More >>
Assange Be Wary: The Dangers Of A US Plea Deal
Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, in uncovering the sordid, operational details of a global military power, would always have to ... More >>
The Censors Down Under: The ACMA Gambit On Misinformation And Disinformation
Friday, 11 August 2023, 3:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum. “Information freedom,” she declared , “supports the peace ... More >>
Peter Pan Man: Elon Musk’s Rebranding Of Twitter
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 1:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“X” marks the spot. For the modern advertiser, this is problematic. It breathes pornographic escape, self-denial, elusive treasure, irresistible capture, compelling lasciviousness. And now Elon Musk has decided to impose himself upon a brand he loved ... More >>
Water Wars: Cooling The Data Centres
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis. Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton ... More >>
The Day Australian Sovereignty Died
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 1:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If a date might be found when Australian sovereignty was extinguished by the emissaries of the US imperium, July 29, 2023 will be as good as any. Not that they aren’t other candidates, foremost among them being the announcement of the AUKUS agreement ... More >>
