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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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Blacklisting The Merchants Of Spyware
Monday, 8 November 2021, 12:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a modest effort to disrupt the global spyware market, the United States announced last week that four entities had been added to its blacklist. On November 3, the US Department of Commerce revealed that it would be adding Israel-based companies ... More >>
Hypersonic Panic And Competitive Terror
Saturday, 6 November 2021, 9:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
During his eventful time in office, US President Donald Trump took much delight in reflecting about the lethal toys of his country’s military, actual or hypothetical. These included a hypersonic capability which, his military advisors had warned, was ... More >>
Cleo Smith And The Lost Child Syndrome
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 3:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the twenty-four-hour news cycle, scraps of information become flecks of distracting gold. Information sifters go through coverage with anorak enthusiasm. Instead of good copy and measured consideration, journalists are encouraged to become manufacturers ... More >>
Lies, Lies And Nuclear Submarines
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 12:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It looked like something of an ambush, but a coterie of Australian journalists had their man where they wanted him. Between sessions at the G20 Summit in Rome, and French President Emmanuel Macron found himself blunter than usual. The sundering ... More >>
The CIA, Empty Assurances And Assange’s Defence
Friday, 29 October 2021, 4:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The second day of appellate proceedings by the United States against Julian Assange saw the defence make their case against the overturning of District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January ruling . Any extradition to the US, she concluded, would be ... More >>
Crystal Ball Jurisprudence: The US Appeal Against Assange Opens
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 3:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It’s time to ready yourself for ghoulishly bad behaviour. Shred your bill of rights or whatever charter of liberties you have handy. Flatulent, dangerous and fatuous, the US prosecution of Julian Assange took to the UK High Court on October 27, opening ... More >>
Congress, Skulduggery And The Assange Case
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 1:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Is the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence Committee is on a mission of discovery. Its subject: a Yahoo News report disclosing much material that was already in the public domain ... More >>
Cancelling Cartoonists
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 3:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On January 7, 2015, the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo found themselves facing a form of cancel culture before it became fashionable in the Twaddle sphere. It was of the most severe, lethal sort. Twelve people were butchered and ... More >>
Space Dildoing With William Shatner
Friday, 22 October 2021, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Overpaid breakfast hosts on an Australian network sniggered, wondered and pondered. Why is that top throbbed Blue Origin capsule heading to space shaped that way? Is Jeff Bezos’s effort nothing more than a phallic spurt into the heavens? The implications ... More >>
Melbourne: The Longest In Lockdown
Thursday, 21 October 2021, 2:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a city, Melbourne previously prided itself with the air of a prim and proper heiress, one without peer in Australia: a gastronomic wonder, a sporting goddess, and a place of orderly public transport. The Economist Intelligence Unit glowed with ... More >>
Colin Powell: Establishment Warrior
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 2:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
History is strewn with the broken branches of twisted irony. An individual who found himself entangled in it was the late Colin Powell, who, as a military man, gave a doctrine his name only to forgo it as a diplomat. The Powell Doctrine was one of ... More >>
War Talk From The Mad Monk: Tony Abbott Goes To Taiwan
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 2:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No one can stop him. He can barely stop himself. The former Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, seems to be everywhere, fighting the poor cause. At the very least, he is everywhere with the press cameras, the niggling concerns, the irritations that ... More >>
Cheap Grace And Climate Change: Australia And COP26
Sunday, 17 October 2021, 6:41 am | Binoy Kampmark
It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a famed coal hugger, has vacillated about whether to even go to the climate conference ... More >>
Funeral Rites For COVID Zero
Friday, 15 October 2021, 2:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with. Run down SARS-CoV-2. Suppress it. Crush it. Or just “flatten the curve”, which could have meant versions of all the above. This created a climate of numerical sensitivity: ... More >>
Waking Up To Climate Change Dinosaurs
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Morning listening on October 13. Australia’s Radio National. Members of the Morrison government are doing their interview rounds with the host, Fran Kelly. We enter a time warp, speeding away into another dimension where planet Earth, and Australia, ... More >>
COVIDSafe: The Failure Of An App
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 6:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The returns have not been impressive. For an app essentially anointed as a saviour for tracing purposes in the worst pandemic in a century, COVIDSafe is a lesson in exaggerated prowess and diminished performance. It was billed as necessitous and ... More >>
Sportswashing At Tyneside: Saudi Arabia Moves Into English Football
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 5:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The recent acquisition of the Newcastle United football club by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, along with financier Amanda Staveley and the billionaire Reuben brothers, was a source of much excitement for some former players. Old boy ... More >>
Blowing The Whistle At Facebook
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 3:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with ... More >>
Trump, Twitter And The Digital Town Hall
Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 3:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The merits are hard to stomach for partisans long jaundiced by presumption and dislike, but the cheer at the deplatforming of Donald Trump by a range of social media platforms said as much about the nature of any sentiment about democracy as it did about those ... More >>
Britannia Turns Back The Boats
Saturday, 2 October 2021, 5:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Pushing people back across borders; turning asylum seekers away from shores. When such tactics were openly adopted and used with impunity by Australia’s navy and border force, it caused outrage and concern in the maritime community and pricked ... More >>
