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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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Scott Morrison Awaits The Apocalypse
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 5:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
The minds of defeated prime ministers are rarely pretty. In some cases, they are damnably awful places, where ruins accumulate and dust gathers in wretchedness. Such figures can become, by the admission of former Australian prime minister, Malcolm ... More >>
AUKUS, Technology And Militarising Australia
Friday, 22 July 2022, 4:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Thinktanks across Australia, tanked with cash from US sources and keen to think in furious agreement, are all showing how delighted they are with the AUKUS security pact and what potential it has for local, if subordinated industry. The United States ... More >>
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS In Afghanistan
Monday, 18 July 2022, 2:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as civilised. Restraint characterises their behaviour; codes of laws follow in their wake, rather than genocidal impulses. ... More >>
Get Gota: Holding A War Criminal Accountable
Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The fall and ignominious retreat of Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa has enlivened one distinct possibility. Having formally resigned as Sri Lankan President, a point made via email from Singapore, those wishing to see him account for war crimes may ... More >>
Vicarious Zeal: Fighting To The Last Ukrainian
Wednesday, 13 July 2022, 4:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues, the rhetoric from the imperial spear-holders in Washington and some allies is becoming increasingly fixated with one object: victory against Russia. Such words should be used sparingly, especially given their binding, ... More >>
Barely Legal: The Global Uber Enterprise
Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 12:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The lobbying of Uber should, along with those of other corporate giants, only surprise those prone to pollyannaish escapism. Its hungry, desperate behaviour takes place in plain sight, and denials merely serve to emphasise the point. It resembles, in ... More >>
Hoisted By Their Own Petard: Wimbledon’s Russian Player Ban
Sunday, 10 July 2022, 6:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was, all and all, an odd spectacle. The Ladies’ Singles victor for Wimbledon 2022 had all the credentials that would have otherwise guaranteed her barring. Being Russian-born, news outlets in Britain walked gingerly around The All England Club’s ... More >>
Whistleblower Relief: Dropping The Collaery Case
Sunday, 10 July 2022, 5:33 am | Binoy Kampmark
The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule remains a creature in state, more fetish than reality. Had the farcical prosecution of former ACT Attorney ... More >>
Abandoning The Sinking Rat: Boris Johnson Resigns
Friday, 8 July 2022, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Like the political equivalent of a cockroach, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived and endured one strike after another. His credibility was shot, his mendacity second to none. He lost the confidence of a party that delighted in his buffoonish performances ... More >>
AUKUS Submarines: Beasts Of Nuclear Proliferation
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 2:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused. Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been a dream. Those who did acquire it, in ... More >>
The Major Questions Doctrine: The US Supreme Court Blunts The EPA
Monday, 4 July 2022, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The US Supreme Court has been frantically busy of late, striking down law and legislation with an almost crazed, ideological enthusiasm. Gun laws have been invalidated; Roe v Wade and constitutional abortion rights, confined to history. And now, the Environmental ... More >>
Terms Of Condescension: The Language Of Australia’s 'Pacific Family'
Saturday, 2 July 2022, 5:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When will this nonsense on familial connection between Australia and the Pacific end? In 2018, Australia’s then Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew upon a term that his predecessors had not. On November 8 that year, he announced ... More >>
Convenient Omissions: The Ukraine-EU Candidacy Show
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 3:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instances of sympathy are rarely excuses to throw out the rule book. In the case of the European Union, throwing out the rule book about admission has tended to be a feature of enlargement. Credentials of candidate states have been, when needed, ... More >>
Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 5:50 am | Binoy Kampmark
American exceptionalism can be a dreary thing, and no more so than each time a US president promotes the country’s imperial credentials and continued prowess. But in matters of literacy, shared wealth, and health care, the US has been outpaced ... More >>
The First Attack On The Independents: Albanese Hobbles The Crossbench
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 12:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It did not take long for the new Australian Labor government to flex its muscle foolishly in response to the large crossbench of independents and small party members of Parliament. Despite promising a new age of transparency and accountability after ... More >>
The Brutality Of “Bulldozer Justice” In India
Monday, 27 June 2022, 7:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It looks all too eerily similar as a method: the expulsion of individuals from their home, the demolition of said home and the punishing of entire families. All excused by a harsh reading of local regulations. But this method, used by Israeli authorities ... More >>
Top Gun: Maverick: The Pentagon Recruitment Drive
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 12:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Hollywood, like the US press, has not been spared the influential hand of government. Under the mask of various projects, the defence establishment has sought to influence the narrative of Freedom Land’s pursuits, buying a stake in the way exploits are ... More >>
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties Of Qatar’s World Cup
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 12:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest casualty rates amongst workers in its history, marked by corruption and stained by a pharisee quality. The ... More >>
Predictable Monstrosities: Priti Patel Approves Assange’s Extradition
Saturday, 18 June 2022, 4:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The only shock about the UK Home Secretary’s decision regarding Julian Assange was that it did not come sooner. In April, Chief Magistrate Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring expressed the view that he was “duty-bound” to send the case ... More >>
Julian Assange In Ithaka
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 5:54 am | Binoy Kampmark
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for.” C. P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keeley John Shipton, despite his size, glides with insect-like grace across surfaces. He moves with a hovering sense, a holy man with message and ... More >>
