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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 Known Knowns Of Donald Rumsfeld
Friday, 2 July 2021, 4:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“On the morning of September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld ran to the fire at the Pentagon to assist the wounded and ensure the safety of survivors,” expressed a mournful George W. Bush in a statement . “For the next five years, he was in steady ... More >>
The Known Knowns Of Donald Rumsfeld
Friday, 2 July 2021, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“On the morning of September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld ran to the fire at the Pentagon to assist the wounded and ensure the safety of survivors,” expressed a mournful George W. Bush in a statement . “For the next five years, he was in steady ... More >>
Clinching In The Breach: Matt Hancock Resigns
Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 3:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From his secure fortress of contented spite, Dominic Cummings, exiled from the power he once wielded at Number 10 as one of the chosen, must have felt a sense of satisfaction. Biliously, the former top aide to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had scorned the ... More >>
Let The Vandalism Begin: Adani Strikes Coal
Saturday, 26 June 2021, 3:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He began on RN Breakfast by claiming that he, and his company, would be open and transparent about mining operations. But Lucas Dow, chief executive of Adani’s Australian operations, soon revealed in his June 25 interview that his understanding ... More >>
The Insurgency Against Big Oil
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 1:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While Australian politicians languish in a world blotched by climate change scepticism and fossil fuel love-ins, global oil and gas companies have been shaken. Three titans of oil fame – Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron – faced a range of decisions in May ... More >>
The Great Barrier Reef Wars
Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To float over such an aqueous body is to find a majestic creature unparalleled in beauty and expanse, stretching at 2,300km. There are other stunning formations on the planet, but the Great Barrier Reef has such dimension, form and cocksure brilliance ... More >>
Vaccine Failings: The European Commission And AstraZeneca
Monday, 21 June 2021, 4:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the messy, underhanded world of global health responses to COVID-19 it was only appropriate that lawyers should find themselves enriched on respective sides of a dispute about vaccine supply. The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has been getting ... More >>
The Conviction And Sentencing Of Witness K
Saturday, 19 June 2021, 4:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
After tormenting the man for years, it became clear that the Australian authorities were willing to, for want of a better word, compromise. The more accurate word would be compromising. Instead of banishing former spy turned bean spiller Witness K to ... More >>
Wither Encryption: What Operation Trojan Shield Reveals
Friday, 18 June 2021, 12:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
My, were they delighted. Politicians across several international jurisdictions beamed with pride that police and security forces had gotten one up on criminals spanning the globe. It all involved a sting by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ... More >>
Publicity And Exploitation: Fortress Australia And The Family From Biloela
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 2:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australian officials and paper mad types are running out of ideas as to how to be cruel towards refugees. We need to give them some credit: for years they have tried to do what most autocratic and murderous regimes do in a heartbeat: ignore international ... More >>
Vague Alternatives And G7 Summitry: The Build Back Better World Initiative
Sunday, 13 June 2021, 4:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Summits often feature grand statements and needless fripperies. In Cornwall, the leaders of the G7 countries were trying to position and promote their relevance as the vanguard of democratic good sense and values. They, the message went, remained ... More >>
Less Freedom, More Money: Tony Blair’s Vaccine Passport
Friday, 11 June 2021, 2:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Sincere Tony is again on the stump, promoting his vision of how best to return to a lovely, unruffled world of capitalist endeavour, circuit lecturing and summit meetings that no longer need to be held online. And when Blair has visions, they are bound ... More >>
ET, You Bore Me: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena And The Pentagon
Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 4:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Those of you drawing sustenance and stimulation from the traditional acronym UFO best brace yourselves. The less exciting and dull term accepted by the defence clerks – unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – is renewing its march into the extra-terrestrial ... More >>
Denmark Offshores The Right To Asylum
Monday, 7 June 2021, 4:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like Australia, where processing refugees and asylum-seekers is a task offloaded, with cash incentives, to third countries (Papua New Guinea and ... More >>
Of Plagues And Rodents: Australia’s War Against Mice
Sunday, 6 June 2021, 4:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not a day goes by these days without a casual remark about animal extermination in Australia. Mice have moved to the front of the queue in terms of animal species Australians would most like to liquidate. The language used has various registers: ... More >>
Suicidal Games: Tokyo’s Coronavirus Olympics
Thursday, 3 June 2021, 12:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A pandemic crisis. A state of emergency. Overwhelming public opinion bristling with alarm. Notwithstanding these factors, Tokyo is still on track to host the Olympics that was cancelled last year in response to the global pandemic. The first sports ... More >>
That Old Story: Spying On Friends
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One has to be repeatedly reminded that the theatre of international relations knows no friends and only national interests, whatever those might be. Intelligence services, being an expression of those interests, do not necessarily discriminate in targeting ... More >>
Laying The Bear Trap: Orbán Visits No 10 Downing Street
Monday, 31 May 2021, 2:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
His comments would not have fallen on deaf ears. While metropolitan London would have been aghast at his pedigree and remarks, a Brexit-audience in the rustbelts and areas of deprivation, would have felt a twang of appreciation. For them, migration ... More >>
The Dominic Cummings Show
Friday, 28 May 2021, 3:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The former chief strategist for Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in a stroppy mood before the UK parliamentary Health and Science committee. For seven hours , Cummings unleashed salvo after salvo against his former boss and the government coronavirus ... More >>
How It All Went Wrong: The Global Response To COVID-19
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 11:23 am | Binoy Kampmark
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never likely to hand down a rosy report with gobbets of praise. Organised by the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last May, the panel’s gloomy assessment ... More >>
