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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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The Iran War: A Great Carbon Emitter
Monday, 30 March 2026, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Along with the staining criminality of those who have soiled the peace, climate change is exactly one of those things, something that will storm back to the fore with menacing consequences. More >>
Auguries Of Failure: Israel Invades Lebanon, Yet Again
Friday, 27 March 2026, 1:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The order of the day is historical repetition, with hard lessons ignored and vengeance favoured. The hateful heart can hunger and prove insatiable. More >>
Operation Epic Fury And US Unreadiness For War
Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 1:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Iran War is all but confirming that; the unready have been found wanting. More >>
More Parleying Nonsense: Trump, Iran And Promised Negotiations
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did little to fan the dust away, claiming that Trump and the Pentagon had “predicted it would take approximately 4-6 weeks to achieve this mission.” More >>
No Naval Escort For Trump: US Allies And The Strait Of Hormuz
Friday, 20 March 2026, 1:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or dictating. More >>
Opportunistic Asylum: How Australia Exploited The Iranian Women’s Football Team
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 1:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
That display was all the more contemptible given that Australia was in wholehearted agreement with the illegal attack on Iran, having refused to call it a breach of the United Nations Charter. More >>
Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait And Agricultural Shock
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is abundantly clear that the planners behind the war on Iran have shown themselves both contemptible and inept in appreciating that fact. More >>
Costly And Depleting: The Growing Problems Of Operation Epic Fury
Sunday, 15 March 2026, 5:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Washington is battling through the another malady Trump had once campaigned against: the debilitating entanglement of a foreign war with ill-defined objectives involving a resourceful, obstinate foe. More >>
Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz
Friday, 13 March 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Through an approach of existential attrition, the clerical regime in Tehran is now causing shocks and tingles in the global market, striking where influence is strongest: the petrol pump, the cash register, the hip pocket. More >>
Middle Power Nonsense: Australia, Canada And Capitulating To The Iran War
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 3:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
So far, the middling powers have not gotten far. In fact, they have shown themselves despicably fawning and incapable of taking a stance on the legality of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. More >>
Starmer’s Self-Defence Fudge: The UK’s Growing Involvement In The Iran War
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The public inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the war, chaired by John Chilcot, noted that “the circumstances in which it was decided there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from satisfactory”. More >>
Doctrine And Proliferation: France, Forward Deterrence And Going Backwards
Monday, 9 March 2026, 1:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whether it is put down to Russia or the Iran War, neither of which justifies matters, the genie of nuclear proliferation is truly out of the bottle and running amok. More >>
It’s About Children And Education: Melania Trump At The UN Security Council
Saturday, 7 March 2026, 3:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As the UN, with its viscera, becomes increasingly confined to sepulchral functions, eyeing the tomb of international institutions, the mad in power are showing, at least for the moment, that they are setting and settling scores. More >>
Inflated Calamities: Security Threats To Anthony Albanese
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 4:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Threats to politicians are not matters to be dismissed lightly. The AFP received 951 reports of threatening, harassing, nuisance and offensive communications to parliamentarians in the last financial year. More >>
Going Native In The Trump Jungle: How It Became Legal To Attack Iran
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 1:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Most pitiful in the repudiation of the Charter by US allies are the stances of the supposed “middle powers”, a term as flattering as middle management. More >>
Roguish Justifications: The Apologists For The Attack On Iran
Monday, 2 March 2026, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With haughty hypocrisy, Iran was told that it could never acquire a nuclear weapon, leaving aside the uncomfortable fact that Israel was an undeclared nuclear power that avoided international regulations and scrutiny of its program. More >>
Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar
Sunday, 1 March 2026, 5:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the meantime, American diplomats who open their frontier-stretched mouths claiming interest for peace and negotiations should make everyone reach for the gun. More >>
New Endings: How Starmer Lost Gorton And Denton
Saturday, 28 February 2026, 7:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The result in Gorton and Denton was appropriate punishment for Starmer’s distant, estranged, incapable leadership, a government that has seemingly not governed where it needed to, and now facing a calamitous reckoning. More >>
It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats In The Caribbean
Friday, 27 February 2026, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Cuban ministry of the interior noted the killing of “four aggressors on the foreign vessel”. Six were also injured and remain in custody. “The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance.” More >>
Biblical Writ And Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson And Israel
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 1:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a representative of the Christian evangelical movement, Huckabee sees Israel as caretakers of holy land, most notably Jerusalem, before the rapture, when Christ’s second coming will bring the world to its natural, apocalyptic conclusion. More >>
