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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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Failed Machismo: Israel’s Pager Killings
Friday, 20 September 2024, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The pager killings in Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17 that left almost 3000 people injured and 12 dead were just another facet of this move. On September 18, a number of walkie-talkies used by members of Hezbollah were also detonated, ... More >>
Peter Doherty: Public Science Communicator
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 2:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When it finally comes to Doherty’s turn to speak, one is immediately disabused by the image of a tyrannical professor lording over labs, staff and students. With mischief, he enters, unevenly, that treacherous field of educating the public about ... More >>
Beyond Irritation: Bali’s Tourism Scourge
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 5:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In its modern form, Bali’s tourism industry has become a plague of monumental proportion. A group calling itself Responsible Travel is not shy in calling the Indonesian island “one of the world’s most high-profile victims of mass tourism.” More >>
Bypassing Sanctions: Russia, Trade Routes And Outfoxing The West
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:19 am | Binoy Kampmark
Russia’s inventive response to sanctions has revitalised its economy and trade, forging new routes and partnerships, particularly with China and India, amidst ongoing conflict in Ukraine. More >>
Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension Of Arms Export Licenses To Israel
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To offer some mild reassurance to the disgruntled, notably regarding arms sales to Israel, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy promised to revisit the policy, editing it, as it were, to see if it stood the test of international humanitarian law. More >>
Killing Bazaars: The Land Forces Expo Down Under
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The protest outfit Disrupt Land Forces, one that so far boasts 50 different activist collectives, has been gathering some steam. More >>
Childish Fantasies: Age Verification for Social Media Down Under
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 1:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of encouraging fine circumspection and growing maturity, these laws encourage comforting insularity and prolonged immaturity. More >>
A Return To Form: Expediting US Arms To Israel
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
August proved to be the second busiest month for US arms deliveries to Israel’s Nevatim Airbase since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas. More >>
Protecting The Widow Maker: The US Marines Exonerate The Osprey
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Osprey has pride of place in a military force that specialises in lethal aviation mishaps during training and routine operations. More >>
Protecting The Merchants Of Death: The Police Effort For Land Forces 2024
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 11. Melbourne. The scene: the area between Spencer Street Bridge and the Batman Park-Spencer Street tram stop. Heavily armed police, with glinting face coverings and shields, had seized and blocked the bridge over the course of the morning, preventing ... More >>
Beware The Derogators: The Geneva Conventions Turn 75
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Better, it would seem, a world with the Geneva Conventions than one without them. What is needed, Policinski reminds us, “is not more or different rules” but “better respect for existing rules, something all states have a stake in.” More >>
Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness On AUKUS
Sunday, 25 August 2024, 2:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For those who hold the reins in Canberra, the march to war amidst the false sounding notes of peace is not only inevitable but desirable. More >>
Apologists For Rape: The Sde Teiman Protests
Friday, 23 August 2024, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The unit was also involved in a violent disruption at the Sde Teiman military base in the Negev desert, where detained Palestinians from the Gaza Strip had been subjected to various forms of torture and maltreatment. More >>
Violating The Sherman Act: Google’s Illegal Monopoly
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia found that Google acted as a monopoly in its “general search” and “general search text advertising” markets and had breached Section 2 of the Sherman Act ... More >>
Wellness As Tyranny: The Cult Of Toxic Happiness
Monday, 19 August 2024, 12:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Unhappiness has become the hunted enemy, and stomped upon. The time has come for a constructive sense of informed unhappiness to take over, the sulky, the gravely sullen and the profoundly introspective to have their time in necessary bleakness. ... More >>
Tactical Paranoia: Peter Dutton’s Palestinian Problem
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Coalition opposition to granting visas to Palestinians voicing support for Hamas is also implausible in another respect. While claiming to be defenders of that most weaselly of terms, “social cohesion”, Dutton and his stormtroopers seek to demolish ... More >>
Bloody Eschatology: Israel And The Next Big War
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 1:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The push towards an all-out war in the Middle East is moving out of its sleepwalking phase to that of conscious eschatological reckoning. More >>
Resisting AUKUS: The Paul Keating Formula
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 5:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From his own redoubt of critical inquiry, the former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has made fighting the imperialising leprosy of the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the United States a matter of solemn duty. More >>
AUKUS Revamped: The Complete Militarisation Of Australia
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 4:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The deeper incorporation of Australia’s own military requirements into the US military complex “across land, maritime, air, and space domains, as well as the Combined Logistics, Sustainment, and Maintenance Enterprise” will allow US military forces ... More >>
Tim Walz For Veep: Barely Noticed Or Noticeable
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 12:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Walz may have an advantage insofar as he is utterly unknown to the voters that will swing the election. Outside his state, he is clean, cold tabula rasa and utterly without distinction. The figure of no record can create something anew. More >>
