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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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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 >>
Cancelling Art, Dark Mofo And The Offended Classes
Monday, 29 March 2021, 3:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Last week, Australians found themselves delighting in another fit of cancel culture, this time in the art world. Tasmania’s Dark Mofo art festival prides itself on being gritty but the mood was very much about removing any grit to begin with. Interest ... More >>
Increasing Nukes And Trimming The Military: Global Britain’s Skewed Vision
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 5:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Campaigners for the abolition of nuclear weapons had every reason to clink glasses with the coming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in January. Nuclear weapon states and their allies still persisted in calling the document ... More >>
Confused In Afghanistan: The Biden Administration’s Latest Trick
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 3:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Biden administration continues to engage in that favourite activity White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki can only describe as “circling back”. And much circling is taking place in the context of Afghanistan. The cupboard of calamities is well ... More >>
Coming To The Playing Field: Biden Puts Australia First
Monday, 22 March 2021, 4:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has gotten tongues wagging in the diplomatic corps of Beijing, Washington and distant Canberra. The opening session of the two-day summit between China and the United States in Anchorage, Alaska was ill-tempered. “We do not seek conflict,” ... More >>
Biden And The Pot Heads: The Return Of The Drug Moralists
Sunday, 21 March 2021, 5:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Promises are very much made to be broken, and the Biden administration is proving to be no exception. In a moral fit, the Biden White House has gone through the ranks of staffers with a keen eye on past marijuana use and wielded the axe and cudgel. ... More >>
Green Passes And Dark Inequalities: The Push For COVID Immunity Passports
Friday, 19 March 2021, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Sensible, ideal, wonderful – if you happen to be in the European Union. This is the air of confidence surrounding the March 17 proposal for a digital COVID immunity passport, or what is officially being called the Digital Green Certificate. The Digital ... More >>
A Climate Change Vandal Goes To Paris: Mathias Cormann And The OECD
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 3:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The hallmark of any institution is the ability to withstand ironic dysfunction. The United States under the stewardship of that unintentional comic George W. Bush made John Bolton ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton had loathed the body, wishing ... More >>
