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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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Spending More On Nukes: STRATCOM’s Nuclear Death Wish
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing. But beware the trappings of zeal. When it comes to the business of retaining an inventory for humanity’s annihilation, the zealous should be kept away. But there Admiral Charles Richard was in April this ... More >>
Going To Court: The EU Sues AstraZeneca
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 4:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has been a relationship of characterised by bitterness and misunderstanding. It began with a poorly negotiated agreement – poor, that is, from the European Union perspective – between Brussels and AstraZeneca for the supply of COVID-19 ... More >>
A Very British Case: Postmasters And Miscarriages Of Justice
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 4:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
British justice is a splendidly odd animal. Its miscarriage is one of those wonders of institutional repetition. When textbooks are written on the subject, one will feature prominently. On April 23 this year, the convictions of 39 former sub-postmasters ... More >>
Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel And Apartheid
Monday, 3 May 2021, 4:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed , a report by Human Rights Watch, lit several fires of rage and disapproval. Israel, according to the authors, ... More >>
Forgetting Citizenship: Australia Suspends Flights From India
Sunday, 2 May 2021, 4:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous Australia has taken the decision to suspend all flights coming into the country till mid-month. The decision was reached by the Morrison ... More >>
Mike Pezzullo And Giving War A Chance
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 3:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Those madly titillated by conflict have become bolder of late in the corridors of the isolated Australian capital. In such spaces, insanity can be nurtured with a sickening attention to detail, much of it fictitious. One of the most powerful bureaucrats ... More >>
Joe Biden, Recognition And The Armenian Genocide
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 3:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Attributing names to the brutal acts humans are capable of inflicting upon each other is never without problems. There are gradations of terror, hierarchies of atrocity and cruelty. In these, the pedants reign. Disputes splutter and rage over whether ... More >>
Ethnic Engineering: Denmark’s Ghetto Policy
Sunday, 25 April 2021, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The very word is chilling, but has become normalised political currency in Denmark. Since 2010, the Danish government has resorted to generating “ghetto lists” marking out areas as socially problematic for the state. In 2018, the country’s parliament ... More >>
Virtual Bunny Hugging: Boasting About Climate Change Goals
Friday, 23 April 2021, 2:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He seemed frustrated. While Scott Morrison’s international colleagues at the Leaders Summit on Climate were boastful in what their countries would do in decarbonising the global economy, Australia’s feeble contribution was put on offer. Unable to ... More >>
Mixed Sight: New Zealand, The Five Eyes And China
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 5:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Five Eyes arrangement between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has always resembled a segregated, clandestine club. Focused on the sharing of intelligence between countries of supposedly like mind, it has shown that ... More >>
Greed And The European Super League
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 1:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Suffocating the grassroots. Mocking the working class origins of the game. World football, and primarily European club football, has long done away with loyalties in favour of cash and contract. The professionalization of the game has seen a difficult ... More >>
Coronavirus Strikes Papua New Guinea
Monday, 19 April 2021, 1:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There was a time when it seemed Papua New Guinea had managed to dodge a bullet. Instances of SARS-CoV-2 were minimal, along with its disease, COVID-19. Through 2020, the country of eight million people recorded a mere 900 cases. The World Health Organization ... More >>
Exiting Afghanistan: Biden Sets The Date
Friday, 16 April 2021, 3:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It had to be symbolic, and was represented as such. Forces of the United States will be leaving Afghanistan on September 11 after two decades of violent occupation, though for a good deal of this stretch, US forces were, at best, failed democracy ... More >>
Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages The Natanz Nuclear Facility
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 3:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Over the weekend, Iran marked National Nuclear Technology Day. The stars of the show were going to be new advanced centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. Unfortunately, the stars did not shine and President Hassan Rouhani and his officials ... More >>
Nimble Failure: The Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Program
Monday, 12 April 2021, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“I am not going to be talking about numbers today,” Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told Australia’s Radio National on April 12. This echoed suggestions from the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who had adopted the position ... More >>
When Prince Philip Became A Monument
Saturday, 10 April 2021, 4:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The student from Ghana was insistent. “I want to meet him.” The stubborn, well-attired fool, groomed and keen to make a good impression, was attending the Senate House ceremony in Cambridge for honorary awardees. He was not the only one. In attendance ... More >>
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 1:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even in times of pandemic crises, some things never change. While Australia gurgles and bumbles slowly with its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, there are other priorities at stake. Threat inflators are receiving much interest in defence, and the media ... More >>
The Future Of Australian Universities: Bogans Of The Pacific
Monday, 5 April 2021, 4:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When Nobel Laureates open their mouths in despair and anger, their observations tend to be worth noting. Immunologist Professor Peter Doherty was willingly doing so last week, and found himself indignant at the merciless cuts to courses and subjects ... More >>
Priti Patel And The Death Of Asylum
Sunday, 4 April 2021, 5:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Nothing makes better sense to the political classes than small time demagoguery when matters turn sour. True, the United Kingdom might well be speeding ahead with vaccination numbers, and getting ever big-headed about it, but there is still good ... More >>
The Adani Business Formula: Dealing With Myanmar’s Military
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 2:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Corporate morality can be a flexible thing. Some companies see tantalising dollar signs afloat in the spilt blood of civilians and dissidents. Military governments, however trigger crazed, offer ideal opportunities; potentially, corners can be cut, ... More >>
