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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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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 >>
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 >>
