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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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Sanitising Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership
Thursday, 5 August 2021, 1:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information” on its platform. The company reiterates its commitment that people ... More >>
Fighting Malta’s Rule Of The Jungle: The Daphne Caruana Galizia Inquiry
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 2:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Public Inquiry into the murder of the resourceful journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia handed down its findings on July 29. Firm aim was taken at the Maltese State, which had “to shoulder responsibility for the assassination because it created ... More >>
Rio Tinto In Serbia: The Jadar Lithium Project
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 3:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture it eviscerated in a matter of hours in May last year, Rio Tinto could think grandly about another future. The ... More >>
Global Britain Slashes International Aid
Saturday, 31 July 2021, 2:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Decisions on aid are eroding trust and eroding relationships between the UK and developing countries.” Abby Baldoumas, Financial Times , July 15, 2021 Politics is not merely the art of the possible but the pursuit of concerted hypocrisy. When ... More >>
Papers Instead Of Human Lives: The Sentencing Of Daniel Hale
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 7:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence analyst Daniel Everett Hale with five counts of providing classified information ... More >>
Afghanistan, Failure And Second Thoughts
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 3:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is now wondering if it should return – in some form. The Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs ... More >>
Greenwashing The Tokyo Olympic Games
Saturday, 24 July 2021, 4:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts”. Martin Müller, European Urban and Regional Studies , 2015 The organisers of the Olympics have always been ... More >>
Tokyo’s Pandemic Games Open
Friday, 23 July 2021, 4:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The auguries are not good for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Resignations have filled the ledger, including Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, organising committee president Yoshiro Mori and the creative director Hiroshi Sasaki. Then there is the lamentable ... More >>
Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware And Human Rights
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 4:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveillance tools to spy on those they deem of interest. The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that ... More >>
Infectious Follies: Britain’s Freedom Day
Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He can scant resist a slogan, but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s insistence on describing Britain’s exit from lockdown as Freedom Day came with its usual kitschy quality. All would be splendid as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in the “move ... More >>
How CDN Providers Break The Internet
Monday, 19 July 2021, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“After years of IT experts telling us that we ‘can’t break the internet’ by pressing the wrong button, it turns out we can do it by updating our settings.” Phil Coughlin, The Guardian , Jun 11, 2021 On June 8, an internet blackout was precipitated ... More >>
Branson Goes To Space
Friday, 16 July 2021, 2:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Profligate, vain and utterly pleased with himself, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson could boast about his latest adventure of megalomania. Unlike others of the stinking rich set, he is incapable of keeping quiet. He pretends to be the people’s ... More >>
When Football Did Not Come Home
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 1:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
They were in with a shot. The English team, deliriously floating on chants of Football’s Coming Home , had made it to their first major tournament final since 1966. The UEFA European Football Championship would be decided at Wembley against ... More >>
Australia’s Hermit Nation Strategy Unravels
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 2:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia, like other island states, has had spells of isolationist fancy and hermit dispositions. Protected by geography, distant and vast, the country’s first bit of legislation in 1901 was the Immigration Restriction Act. This nasty little statute ... More >>
Sydney Mockdown: The Delta Variant Strikes
Sunday, 11 July 2021, 4:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Dear customers, if you are standing there reading this sign you are part of the problem. STAY THE **** HOME! Best, Sydney.” - Note on store front, Sydney, Twitter , July 10, 2021 It is proving to be an unfolding nightmare. For a government that ... More >>
Protecting Eden: Pornography And Age Verification Down Under
Friday, 9 July 2021, 3:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Sex on the screen and on the page has often incurred the wrath of Australian censors. Over the years, the opaquely functioning Office of Film and Literature Classification has been guarding Australians like the children of Eden, fearful that their sensibilities ... More >>
The US Appeals The Assange Ruling
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It took over half a year, but the US government’s case against Julian Assange continues its draining grind. Even the Biden administration, which claims to tolerate a free press and truthful dialogue with the fourth estate, has decided to exhaust ... More >>
Secrecy And Calamity In Australia’s Vaccine Rollout
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With a lamentable, even disgraceful vaccination rate, confusion over how best to deal with the AstraZeneca supply, vague promises about the arrival of other COVID-19 vaccines, and a degree of complacency, half of Australia found itself in lockdown ... More >>
Thordarson’s Fabrications: Another Hole In The Julian Assange Prosecution
Monday, 5 July 2021, 3:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The tyrannical, brutal cynicism of keeping Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison remains one of the more inglorious marks of the British legal system and, it should be said, its sponsors and colluders. Having won his case against extradition to the US, if ... More >>
Leaving Bagram Airbase: The Day The US Imperium Turned Tail
Sunday, 4 July 2021, 5:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From the Bagram Airbase they left, leaving behind a piece of the New York World Trade Centre that collapsed with such graphic horror on September 11, 2001. As with previous occupiers and occupants, the powers that had made this venue a residence ... More >>
