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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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Poor Adaptations: The Netherlands, Bonaire And Climate Change Obligations
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 4:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The latitude governments have traditionally had in shaping these responses is shrinking before the judicial stare, and those States with overseas territories will be nervous about the prospect of a harrying lawsuit. More >>
Hedonism’s Dance: How The Governing Classes Fell For Jeffrey Epstein
Monday, 2 February 2026, 7:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Operating in the realm of power and influence, these figures have shown themselves to be dunces and cavorters before hedonism’s dance, utterly indifferent to the prospect that they would, eventually, be found out. More >>
Dooming The Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 5:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The little Englanders from the conservative and populist side nurse dreams of Britannic relevance while citing a counterfeit concern for Chagossian welfare. More >>
The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison In Israel
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 3:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Morrison has shown that he can be a good Pentecostal when required, demonstrating the sort of charity that never leaves his home or the halls of the Hill Song Church. More >>
Dancing With European Nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth Antisemitism Conference
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 8:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
The attendance list caused problems prior to last year’s inaugural conference, not least because it included speakers from parties with memberships boasting neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers. More >>
The Gangster’s Brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega And Maduro
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 3:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
American political culture remains legal and incurably sanctimonious. It’s encased in a carapace of rhetoric that professes an appreciation of international rules when convenient, and their execration, when otherwise. More >>
The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism And Media
Monday, 26 January 2026, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Oxfam’s Resisting the Rule of the Rich has, as its subtitle, “defending freedom against billionaire power”. It’s an important link, as money, rather than knowledge, tends to be the indicator of raw power. More >>
Artificial Intelligence, Crime And Prisons: Mahmood Revisits The Panopticon
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Reforming the prison population would entail the use of a panopticon design, an all-seeing architecture where guards could witness the activity of all prisoners through the day or night without them necessarily knowing when they were being watched. More >>
Payola Laws: The Gilding Of Golden Tonsils
Friday, 23 January 2026, 8:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The central case in any prosecution brief against John Laws will always be the seamless (or so he thought) change from being a populist bank basher celebrating the oppressed yokels to an ardent advocate for banksters. More >>
Carney At Davos: Removing That Sign In The Window
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given that the United States has tried twice, and failed on both occasions, to successfully invade their northern neighbour, contingency planning is only prudent. More >>
Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board Of Peace
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 3:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The envisaged structure of control over Gaza, seen as a vital part of fulfilling Trump’s 20-point plan for the territory, opens the second phase of the peace process. More >>
Sleepwalking On The Money: Inequality, Surveillance And The Cashless Society
Monday, 19 January 2026, 1:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cash may not be the mighty sovereign it once was but it still holds court with stubborn appeal. More >>
A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition Of Gaza
Thursday, 15 January 2026, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Absolute necessity, he explained, had to “arise from military operations, that is, from combat or direct preparations for combat.” More >>
Spectral Threats: China, Russia And Trump’s Greenland Rationale
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 8:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
However negligible and piffling the imaginary threat, analysts, are always on hand to show concern with such projects as Beijing’s Polar Silk Road which is intended as the Arctic extension of its transnational Belt and Road initiative. More >>
Festival Of Cowardice: The Cancellation Of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A glance at some of the Board’s membership reveals corporate blandness and brand merchants versed in the nebulous world of “consultancy” and “communication”. More >>
Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering And Venezuelan Oil
Sunday, 11 January 2026, 5:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Putting America first,” as the Order makes clear, means just that. The Venezuelan people don’t count, except as props in tawdry oratory. More >>
The Politics Of Premature Adjudication: The Bondi Royal Commission
Friday, 9 January 2026, 4:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A bureaucratic, costly bonanza is in the offing. To Richardson’s review will be added the federal royal commission linking arms, presumably, with the NSW royal commission. More >>
Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent
Thursday, 8 January 2026, 12:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the now former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores facing such charges in New York, other world leaders are doubtless feeling a prevailing gloom. More >>
A Shameful Sham: The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels And Maduro
Wednesday, 7 January 2026, 2:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The rewritten indictment against Maduro reveals how presidential doctrines can be used to force evidence upon a Procrustean bed, sawing or extending it to fit the set dimensions of a dogma. More >>
Confronting Genocide With Civil Disobedience: The Pine Gap Protests And Gaza
Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Two of those protestors, Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker, brought attention to the base’s activities when they blocked Hatt Road, the main access route to Pine Gap in October 2023. More >>
