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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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Privacy Woes: Google’s “Location History” Settlement
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 2:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It all speaks to scale: the attorney generals of 40 states within the US clubbing together to charge Google for misleading users. On this occasion, the conduct focused on making users assume they had turned off the location tracking function on their ... More >>
Saudi Blood Money, Golf And Adelaide
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 3:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Peter Malinauskas, the South Australian Premier, has been the latest convert to the LIV Golf circuit, showing little to no awareness about where the lion’s share of funding is coming from. When confronted with that, he paddles away the prospect ... More >>
The Secret Wars Of The US Imperium
Monday, 14 November 2022, 12:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To get to where they are, imperial powers will deceive, dissimulate and distort. The US imperium, that most awesome of devilish powers, has tentacled itself across the globe, often unbeknownst to its own citizens. In a report released by the New ... More >>
November 11: The Command Of The Donkeys Continues
Monday, 14 November 2022, 6:28 am | Binoy Kampmark
It’s a grotesque, ceremonial observance, marked by a degree of unpardonable acceptance. The First World War, which killed millions, extirpated classes in Europe, and destroyed monarchies, established a mawkish ritual that serves to continue, rather than prevent ... More >>
Micronations: Eccentric And Unthreatening
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 12:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A trolley load of books, chapters and treatises have been written on the subject of sovereignty. Usually, the concept entails control and power, the latter a corollary of the former. In international law, sovereignty finds some form of expression in ... More >>
Extradition Clouds: The Duggan Case And The Chinese Angle
Monday, 7 November 2022, 11:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
Soon, the US government may be making waves regarding another extradition request for a figure connected with that oft exaggerated notion of national security. While the high profile and insidious effort to extradite Julian Assange from the United ... More >>
Rishi Sunak: A Thatcherite In Downing Street
Friday, 4 November 2022, 12:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
They are falling like ninepins, and the Tories have now given the weary people of Britain yet another prime minister. And what a catch: stupendously wealthy, youthful – the youngest in two centuries – and a lawbreaker. As Chancellor of the Exchequer ... More >>
The Bond Vigilantes Get Busy
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 2:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While the levels of schadenfreude will be going through the roof given the unfolding farce in British politics, the resignation of Liz Truss as UK Prime Minister was troubling in one vital respect. True, her juvenile salad understanding of economics, ... More >>
Virtuous Hypocrisy: The Socceroos And The Qatar World Cup
Monday, 31 October 2022, 3:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For a time, the confused and muddled approach from Australian football (soccer to some) did much of a side-step regarding the human rights imbroglio and Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup. There was ample cash and participation in one of the ... More >>
Tactical Nuclear Fantasists
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 12:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Bogeyman politics tends to be flatly unimaginative. The image of the nuclear-mad Russian President, counting his diminishing options, has caught the imagination of press and propaganda outlets across the West. Will Mad Vlad go the distance and deploy ... More >>
Eric Schmidt: A Conflict Of Interest
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ethics and Eric Schmidt are rare bedfellows. The former Google/Alphabet CEO/Chairman exudes a sense of predatory self-interest, always making the point that what he wants aligns with what is supposedly good for the United States. He has splashed money ... More >>
A Political Solution For Assange: Jennifer Robinson At The National Press Club
Sunday, 23 October 2022, 6:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was telling. Of the mainstream Australian press gallery, only David Crowe of the Sydney Morning Herald turned up to listen to Jennifer Robinson, lawyer extraordinaire who has spent years representing Julian Assange. Since 2019, that representation ... More >>
Exit Liz Truss; Enter Lettuce
Friday, 21 October 2022, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“When are you going to govern? The only thing you have governed for the past year is your own survival.” Jess Phillips, Labour MP, October 20, 2022 British politics has revealed hidden depths, each one being sought as each prime minister succumbs. ... More >>
Feeble And Invisible: Sports Protests At The Qatar FIFA World Cup
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Sports stars are often adored like dumb show animals, suitably pretty, happily disposed to the cause they are paid for. For the FIFA Men’s World Cup being held in Qatar next month, football can count on the face of former English star David Beckham as ... More >>
Fibs And Fantasy: Scott Morrison Joins The Global Lecture Circuit
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 2:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Time for some dark amusement. Rising water levels are being recorded in Victoria and New South Wales. Homes and businesses have been inundated before swelling rivers. And Australia’s former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is being advertised in his ... More >>
The Implosion Of Liz Truss
Monday, 17 October 2022, 12:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The Tory Party is like a knight dying in his armour.” Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday , Oct 16, 2022 Liz Truss is proving to be the architect of her own spectacular demise. She laid the mines in a fit of drunken ecstasy and decided to skip across ... More >>
Charles III: Architectural Meddler And Saboteur
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 5:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a prince, the new British monarch developed some curious attitudes to architecture. He also proved to be a dedicated meddler behind building projects he did not like. Combined, this led to a number of interventions that cast a shadow over his accession ... More >>
Giorgia Meloni: The Great Replacement Moves In
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Demographic angst is a terrifying thing, especially to leaders concerned about poor returns from horizontal folk dancing. Viktor Orbán of Hungary is particularly apprehensive that precious Hungarian blood is not being propagated, facing dilution, if not disappearance, ... More >>
Facing The Warmongers: An Assange Update
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 1:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On the latest slimed path Julian Assange has been made to trod, a few things have presented themselves. The rusty sword of Damocles may be suspended above him (he, we are informed, has contracted COVID-19), but there are those, in the meantime, ... More >>
The Liz Truss Disaster Show
Friday, 7 October 2022, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Never underestimate the power of failure. As the Liz Truss Disaster Show demonstrates, the next pitfall is probably just around the corner. The UK Prime Minister has shown, along with her distinctly oblivious Chancellor of the Exchequer, how to balls up ... More >>
