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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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Inflated Calamities: Security Threats To Anthony Albanese
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 4:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Threats to politicians are not matters to be dismissed lightly. The AFP received 951 reports of threatening, harassing, nuisance and offensive communications to parliamentarians in the last financial year. More >>
Going Native In The Trump Jungle: How It Became Legal To Attack Iran
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 1:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Most pitiful in the repudiation of the Charter by US allies are the stances of the supposed “middle powers”, a term as flattering as middle management. More >>
Roguish Justifications: The Apologists For The Attack On Iran
Monday, 2 March 2026, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With haughty hypocrisy, Iran was told that it could never acquire a nuclear weapon, leaving aside the uncomfortable fact that Israel was an undeclared nuclear power that avoided international regulations and scrutiny of its program. More >>
Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar
Sunday, 1 March 2026, 5:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the meantime, American diplomats who open their frontier-stretched mouths claiming interest for peace and negotiations should make everyone reach for the gun. More >>
New Endings: How Starmer Lost Gorton And Denton
Saturday, 28 February 2026, 7:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The result in Gorton and Denton was appropriate punishment for Starmer’s distant, estranged, incapable leadership, a government that has seemingly not governed where it needed to, and now facing a calamitous reckoning. More >>
It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats In The Caribbean
Friday, 27 February 2026, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Cuban ministry of the interior noted the killing of “four aggressors on the foreign vessel”. Six were also injured and remain in custody. “The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance.” More >>
Biblical Writ And Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson And Israel
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 1:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a representative of the Christian evangelical movement, Huckabee sees Israel as caretakers of holy land, most notably Jerusalem, before the rapture, when Christ’s second coming will bring the world to its natural, apocalyptic conclusion. More >>
Condescending And Harmful: Australia’s Social Media Ban
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This month, Guardian Australia ran a bruising piece documenting the ban’s isolating effects on various members of the disabled community. More >>
Suing For Social Media Addiction: Mark Zuckerberg Takes The Stand
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 12:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The social media behemoths do need to be held accountable, but we should all be cautious how that accountability is asserted and enforced. More >>
Punishing Language: Queensland’s Antisemitism Bill
Saturday, 21 February 2026, 3:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In summary, the bill conferred extraordinary powers on a single Minister leading to overreach; enabled the government to criminalise political speech using “ambiguous and subjective standards for unlawful phrases”. More >>
Not Forgetting The Victims: Club Epstein And Crimes Against Humanity
Thursday, 19 February 2026, 4:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The documents revealed, according to the statement, “disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls”. More >>
Prohibitive Puffing: How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime
Wednesday, 18 February 2026, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The prohibitive nature of the tobacco excise in Australia has created a state of affairs uncannily similar to the banning of liquor for sale and distribution between 1920 and 1933 in the United States. More >>
Fearing Immigration: The Australian Coalition And The Return Of Bad Habits
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 7:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Dredged from history, unearthed from policies rusted and tried, attitudes about immigration and race issue from the usual well of dissatisfaction, anxiety and concerns that explain local problems through a frosted mirror. More >>
Misplaced Mourning: Farewelling The CIA World Factbook
Monday, 16 February 2026, 4:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Time to stop mourning a publication by an agency that failed to do with any accuracy what it was intended to do: assess with credible accuracy the political, military and economic health of the Soviet Union. More >>
Objective Fallacy: Eulogies On The Passing Of The Law Based International Order
Sunday, 15 February 2026, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ending the pantomime of the rules-based order does not spell an end to the system of power that continues to exist. It simply never went away. More >>
Blind And Deaf To AUKUS: Australian Planners And Elusive Submarines
Friday, 13 February 2026, 4:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Australian Defence Minister, Richard Marles, a fool of Chaucerian proportions, deserves a star of commendation in his denials of what AUKUS really entails. More >>
Bad Beginnings: The End Of New START
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 8:28 am | Binoy Kampmark
New START seemed to be yet another irritating fetter on an administration more enthused by ignoring international obligations than following them. More >>
Soothsaying And The Sampling Referendum: The Heralded Rise Of One Nation
Monday, 9 February 2026, 8:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Many of the views of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation were slyly and ruthlessly incorporated by the conservative government of John Howard. More >>
Lord Mandelson: Trapped In The Epstein Web
Friday, 6 February 2026, 4:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Epstein’s web is looking increasingly, and alarmingly, expansive. Not only did the wily, persuasive man of advice slither his way into the confidence of the governing classes, he invited the easy betrayal of secrets. More >>
Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit To Australia
Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 2:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“When someone is accused by the United Nations of inciting genocide, you don’t invite them for tea, you don’t give them a platform, and you certainly don’t welcome them as a guest of honour.” More >>
