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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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Backyard Jitters: Australia, China’s Military And The Solomon Islands
Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 1:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The impression given was that of a temple burgled by blaspheming reprobates. But Australian politicians were having none of it. A draft official document published online by an adviser to the Malaita Provincial Government of Premier Daniel Suidani ... More >>
Aroused By Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right
Sunday, 27 March 2022, 6:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the losing end, sentiments are rather different. Complicity and cause in murder come to mind. The late US Secretary ... More >>
Weaponizing Coal: Australia Gives Ukraine A Gift
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 2:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of coal and proceeded to praise it with the enthusiasm of a fetish worshipper. “Don’t be afraid,” he told fellow parliamentarians. ... More >>
Ukraine, Russia And The Sporting McCarthyites
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 6:35 am | Binoy Kampmark
The cultural vandals and iconoclasts have been busy of late, removing Russians from the stables at short notice and demanding what might be called a necessary affirmation of disloyalty. It’s all good to talk about world peace and the resolution of disputes, ... More >>
Troubled Ideas: A Nuremberg Tribunal For Putin
Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 2:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a good number of Western states, the ruling classes, former and current, have lost their heads. Bugbear and boogieman Vladimir Putin’s efforts in Ukraine have lent themselves to some rather extreme suggestions, ranging from assassination to ... More >>
When Politics Kills: Kimberley Kitching, Politics And Bullying
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 6:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Politics can, literally kill. It can seep into the vitals, gnaw away and suck life. Some of the worst battles are waged against colleagues within your own party, all driven by a crazed Social Darwinism to survive. Individually, they may be human and ... More >>
Normal Butcheries: Saudi Arabia’s Latest Mass Execution
Friday, 18 March 2022, 1:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Great reformers are not normally found in theocratic monarchies. Despite assertions to the contrary, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains archaic in the way it deals with its opponents. In its penal system, executions remain standard fare. With liberal ... More >>
Homicidal Drives: US Dreams Of Killing Putin
Thursday, 17 March 2022, 2:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Wars disturb and delude. The Ukraine conflict is no exception. Misinformation is cantering through press accounts and media dispatches with feverish spread. Fear that a nuclear option might be deployed makes teeth chatter. And the Russian President ... More >>
Rotten Rulings: Julian Assange And The UK Supreme Court
Tuesday, 15 March 2022, 2:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Julian Assange, even as he is being judicially and procedurally tormented, has braved every legal hoop in his effort to avoid extradition to the United States. Kept and caged in Belmarsh throughout this farce of judicial history, he risks being extradited ... More >>
Foreign Policy Tripe: Scott Morrison’s “Arc Of Autocracy”
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Grand foreign policy speeches are not usually the specialty of Australian Prime Ministers. Little insight can be gleaned from them. A more profitable exercise would be consulting the US State Department’s briefings, which give more accurate barometric ... More >>
Cutting Ties: The West, Ukraine, And The Russian Academy
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 3:22 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Working with Russian academics and institutions. The attack upon Ukraine by Russia. These are two features playing out heavily in university discussions. As typifies such chitchat, nuance features rather less than cant and sanctimony. As writer and ... More >>
Advertising Gimmicks: Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarines
Monday, 7 March 2022, 3:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Never trust anything that comes out of a politician’s mouth in an election year. Pledges are made to be broken; promises are made to seduce, not convince. When the subject matter involves fictional submarines, even greater care should be taken. ... More >>
The Ukraine War And The “Good” Refugee
Friday, 4 March 2022, 3:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“These people are not people we are used to… these people are Europeans.” Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Associated Press , March 1, 2022 In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal ... More >>
Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine: Outing The Iraq War White Washers
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 2:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The guilty can be devious in concealing their crimes, and their role in them. The greater the crime, the more devious the strategy of deception. The breaking of international law, and the breaching of convention, is a field replete with such figures. Vladimir ... More >>
The She’ll Be Right Mate Syndrome: Australia’s Doomed Koalas
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 3:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a country expert in killing off mammal species at a rate exceeding that of others (to be fair, there are so many more to destroy, with more to come), Australians now face the prospect that the koala, one of its most singularly recognisable animals, ... More >>
Antarctica: Where Realpolitik And Science Meet
Friday, 25 February 2022, 3:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A frozen continent. Another potential frontier for conflict and competition. Antarctica is a part of the world were realpolitician meets scientist; the desire for finding exploitable resources meets environmental expectations and fears. Countries have ... More >>
Bipartisan Consensus As Myth: The Manchurian Candidate In Australian Politics
Friday, 25 February 2022, 6:28 am | Binoy Kampmark
A few dragons have been breathing fire of late, and these need to be slayed. One is the notion that Australia has had some miraculous sense of bipartisan understanding about national security, its politicians well briefed, cooperative and objective ... More >>
Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington’s Regime Change Agenda
Monday, 21 February 2022, 4:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Nation states are habitually doomed to defeat their best interests. Conditions of mad instability are fostered. Arms sales take place, regimes get propped up or abandoned, and the people under them endure and suffer, awaiting the next criminal regime change. ... More >>
Tapping Fortress Australia: Priti Patel’s Border Force Review
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 6:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When in opposition, Alexander Downer, destined to become Australia’s longest serving foreign minister in the conservative government of John Howard, was easy to savage. The Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating was particularly keen to skewer ... More >>
Failure In Moscow: Liz Truss Loses Britannia’s Way
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 11:40 am | Binoy Kampmark
Incompetent politicians and diplomats are on the level with ill-prepared generals fighting current wars with dated methods. They err, they stumble, and they may well be responsible for the next idiotic slander, misfire or misunderstanding. UK Foreign ... More >>
