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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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Avalon Militarism
Tuesday, 28 February 2023, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in its effects. It led to the cancellation, and postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It spared public money. But as the pandemic slides into the shadow of policymaking, bad habits have ... More >>
Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging Of Roald Dahl
Monday, 27 February 2023, 12:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out, stomping on assumed meanings, interpreting and removing things to ensure the masses are not ... More >>
Energy Wars: Outing The Nord Stream Saboteurs
Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 6:06 am | Binoy Kampmark
When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of guessers was mobilised. The accusation that Russia had done it seemed counterintuitive, given that the Russian ... More >>
Irresponsible Politics: Australia’s B-52 Nuclear Weapons Problem
Friday, 17 February 2023, 6:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
It is not farfetched to make the point that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons. Whatever the promises made by governments that such delivery systems will not carry such loads, ... More >>
Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation And Airborne Surveillance
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 6:31 am | Binoy Kampmark
Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing ... More >>
ChatGPT: Boon For The Lazy Learner
Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 6:46 am | Binoy Kampmark
Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do the least to achieve the most. Efforts to subvert the central class examination are the stuff ... More >>
Corrupt And Fraudulent: Laying Bare The Adani Group
Friday, 10 February 2023, 6:20 am | Binoy Kampmark
There is nothing Gautam Adani will not do for money. In this sense, he is admirably dedicated to greed, so much so he has become its foremost caricature worthy of permanent enthronement. Mark this man’s name in the scriptures of eternity: There was nothing ... More >>
Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits The Skies
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 6:09 am | Binoy Kampmark
Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for bombs and undertook surveillance tasks. High altitude balloons were also used by, of all powers, the ... More >>
Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 6:41 am | Binoy Kampmark
It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks from Western arsenals has served to confirm one thing: this is an ever-broadening war between the West ... More >>
Tempting The Banksters: Zelensky Courts US Companies
Sunday, 29 January 2023, 6:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
The transformation of Ukraine into untarnished, saintly victim, symbol of democracy and civil society savaged by brutish Russia, has been nothing less than remarkable. The endemic corruption of a state captured by oligarchic tendencies and its own breed ... More >>
Doltish Ways: Biden’s Documents Problem
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 5:39 am | Binoy Kampmark
Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His electoral victory was fortuitous, aided by a number of factors, not least the conduct of his opponent and ... More >>
When Good Refugees Turn Bad
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 6:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
When the first Russian forces began entering Ukrainian territory in February 2022, the instant reaction from Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia, was one of open commitment to Ukraine’s refugees. The relentless human trains heading westwards were initially ... More >>
A Picture Of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 6:11 am | Binoy Kampmark
International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound to be shown up as an exercise in double standards, often implicating the ... More >>
Nuclear Submarine Doubts: US Lawmakers And AUKUS
Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 7:05 am | Binoy Kampmark
The policymaking apparatus behind the AUKUS security pact was shoddy from the start. It has raised questions about the extent US power will subordinate Australia further in future conflicts; it has brought into question Australia’s own sovereignty; ... More >>
Rampant Speculation: Uranium, Dirty Bombs And Heathrow
Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 6:10 am | Binoy Kampmark
The dirty bomb and its purportedly famed radiation dispersal attributes has an undeserved mythology. It serves to bloat budgets and confer grants on specious theories propounded by specious theorists. It is all rather easy to make a security threat up, and a ... More >>
ExxonMobil, Suppressing Science And Climate Change
Sunday, 15 January 2023, 6:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil and gas company, ... More >>
Joining The War Club: Australia’s HIMARS Purchase
Friday, 13 January 2023, 6:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious stupidity. But Australia’s purchase of HIMARS (High Mobility ... More >>
Suing Meta In Kenya
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 3:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Africa has been a continent exploited since the European scramble carved it out in lines of a draughtsman’s crude design. Its resources have been pilfered; its peoples enslaved for reasons of trade and profit; its political conditions manipulated ... More >>
The Wieambilla Killings: The Sense Behind Senseless Murder
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The contradiction behind the messages is clear. This was a “sophisticated” operation involving surveillance. It was planned. Those unfortunate police officers were lured to an isolated Queensland property where they were “executed”. The details were ... More >>
Basketball, Viktor Bout And Troubling Exchanges
Saturday, 10 December 2022, 5:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Prison exchanges and swaps are never entirely satisfactory affairs. The appropriate measure in such cases is the degree of dissatisfaction that arises from them. In the instance of the exchange of US basketballer Brittney Griner for Russian arms ... More >>
