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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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Calculated Exoneration: Command Responsibility And War Crimes In Afghanistan
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 1:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Being the scapegoat of tribal lore cast out with the heavy weight of sins remains a popular political motif. Supposedly noble soldiers, by way of example, are punished for not adhering to the rules of war. In breaching the codes of killing and the protocols ... More >>
AUKUS, The Australian Labor Party, And Growing Dissent
Sunday, 26 March 2023, 5:39 am | Binoy Kampmark
It was a sight to behold and took the wind out of the bellicose sails of the AUKUS cheer squad. Here, at the National Press Club in the Australian capital, was a Labor luminary, former Prime Minister of Australia and statesman, keen to weigh in with ... More >>
Narendra Modi’s Cricket Coup
Friday, 24 March 2023, 3:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What a coup. Nakedly amoral but utterly self-serving in its saccharine minted glory. India’s showman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who otherwise appears to have clerkish, desk-bound qualities, had what he wanted: an accommodating, possibly clueless guest ... More >>
Imperial Visits: US Emissaries In The Pacific
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 2:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For some time, Washington has been losing its spunk in the Pacific. When it comes to the Pacific Islands, a number have not fallen – at least entirely – for the rhetoric that Beijing is there to take, consume, and dominate all. Nor have such ... More >>
From Balloons To AUKUS: The War Drive Against China
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 4:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When will this hate-filled nonsense stop? Surveillance balloons treated like evocations of Satan and his card-carrying followers; other innumerable unidentified phenomena that, nonetheless, remain attributable in origin, despite their designation; and ... More >>
Criminals At Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On
Monday, 20 March 2023, 12:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not being ... More >>
Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem
Sunday, 19 March 2023, 7:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and naval facilities for war like a gambling drunk, and essentially asking its officials to ... More >>
Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another country. According to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Stop the Boats was the way to go. It harked back to ... More >>
The Warring Peace: The AUKUS Submarine Announcement
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
History is filled with failed planners and plans, threats thought of that did not eventuate, and threats unthought of that found their way into the books. The AUKUS agreement is an attempt to inflate a threat by developing a number of fictional capabilities ... More >>
War Over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang Of Five
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 1:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that has never been a natural, historical enemy, nor sought to be. But as Australia remains the ... More >>
Doing Washington’s Bidding: Australia’s Treatment Of Daniel Duggan
Thursday, 2 March 2023, 2:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The increasingly shabby treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again shown that the Australian passport is not quite worth the material it’s printed on. In January this year, ... More >>
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 >>
