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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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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 >>
The US Imperium Garrisons Australia
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 1:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On December 6, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles. It was the 32nd occasion the countries had ... More >>
Baguette Listings: Why Food Is Politics
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On November 30, the French baguette was formally added to the United Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The bureaucrats had finally gotten hold of a glorified bread stick, adding it to their spreadsheet list of cultural items worthy of preservation. ... More >>
Gallic Rebuke: France And The US Rules-based Order
Friday, 2 December 2022, 2:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Gérard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?”, Araud decried the ... More >>
Julian Assange And Albanese’s Intervention
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The unflinching US effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act of 1917, has not always stirred much interest in the publisher’s home country. Previous governments have been lukewarm ... More >>
Tuvalu, Climate Change And The Metaverse
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When lost to climatic disaster and environmental turbulence, where does a whole nation go? History speaks about movements of people, whether induced by human agency or environment, finding sanctuary and refuge on other terrains, or perishing altogether. ... More >>
Football Capitulates At Qatar
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 10:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It did not take much. The initial promises of protest from a number of footballers and their teams at the Qatar FIFA World Cup were always suspect and hollow. There was Denmark’s less than impressive form of camouflaged protest via merchandise, ... More >>
Silicon Valley Fake: Elizabeth Holmes And The Fraudster’s Motivation
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 12:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has been one noisy time for the paladins of big tech. Jobs have been shed by the thousands at Meta, Amazon and Twitter; FTX, the second largest cryptocurrency company, has collapsed. Then came the conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of ... More >>
Ginger Sufferings: Gianni Infantino’s Sportswashing Performance
Monday, 21 November 2022, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, the most famous 52-year-old brat of the world football federation, has not been much in the news of late. Such creatures of authority do their best (and worst) work in the shadows. But given that the FIFA Men’s World ... More >>
The Polish Missile Narrative
Friday, 18 November 2022, 11:56 am | Binoy Kampmark
Wars tend to bury facts. What comes out of them is often a furiously untidy mix of accounts that, when considered later, constitute wisps of fantasy and presumption. Rarely accepted in the heat of battle is the concept of mistake: that a weapon was ... More >>
