Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.

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Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction

Monday, 5 January 2026, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The January 3 kidnapping of Maduro and his wife by US forces was an audacious breach of the sovereignty guarantee under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. More >>

The Don-Roe Doctrine In Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention In Venezuela

Sunday, 4 January 2026, 6:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Venezuela has little to nothing to do with the flow of cocaine into the US. But there is oil to be seized and managed by US companies and the Don-roe doctrine to maintain. More >>

Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland

Friday, 2 January 2026, 3:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The Somaliland Foreign Ministry is playing dumb on the issue of becoming a dumping ground for Palestinians, effectively turning into a client state for Israeli interests. More >>

Spyware And Murder: The NSO Group, Governments And Khashoggi

Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 5:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The October 2020 lawsuit filed by Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) was dismissed in December 2022 by US District Judge John Bates for reasons of head of state immunity. More >>

A Thesis Confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz And The Israel Lobby

Monday, 29 December 2025, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark

One need not bother about the accusation that Epstein might have been in the specific pay of the Israeli intelligence service to show where his allegiances lay. He was a dedicated spear carrier for Israeli interests. More >>

The Charge Of The Padded Brigade: England In Australia

Sunday, 28 December 2025, 8:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The ones to really feel the pinch will be the treasurers of the Australian Cricket Board, having lost millions on games that did not make the five days. More >>

Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union And Free Speech

Friday, 26 December 2025, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark

For holding and promoting such views, an asset freeze has been placed upon him within the EU jurisdiction, along with an entry and transit ban across the EU. More >>

Indiscriminate Suppression: Attacking Pro-Palestinian Protests After The Bondi Killings

Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 4:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The fuss will come in the form of a constitutional challenge from the Palestine Action Group, Jews Against the Occupation and the First Nations-led Blak Caucus in the new year. More >>

Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates In Australia

Monday, 22 December 2025, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Australia is regarded as a liberal democracy, with a smattering of human rights legislation its various governments observe with resignation, when convenient. Along with most states, its attitude to the UN and its various emissaries remains guarded. More >>

The Problem With Machado: Assange Sues The Nobel Foundation

Sunday, 21 December 2025, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark

While this complaint remains a purist’s attempt to return the peace prize to a more conventional reading, the practice of awarding this inflated award to figures of ill-repute and sullied reputation will be hard to shake. More >>

Confusion At NATO: Rutte, Russia And Delusions About Trump

Thursday, 18 December 2025, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The howling subtext here is Ukraine’s increasing irrelevance to US foreign policy, evident in the parallel lines of European-Ukrainian negotiations on the war, and US-Russian discussions that sup from a different cup. More >>

Using The Slain: Israel Exploits The Bondi Beach Shootings

Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark

With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, his own political destiny and the interests of Jews in a terrible, terrifying mix. More >>

Culinary Muddles At UNESCO: Italian Cuisine As Intangible Cultural Heritage

Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 2:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Furthermore, how these traditions of culinary transmission and engagement survive in a post-industrial age is skirted over. But food, Barthes writes, is a medium through which one “experiences a certain national continuity”. More >>

Schemes Of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues And Human Rights

Thursday, 11 December 2025, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The UN Human Rights Council was the next fashioned target, with February’s withdrawal from the body justified on the basis that it had “protected human rights abusers by allowing them to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny”. More >>

Perfectly Appropriate: Trump, Infantino And The FIFA Peace Prize

Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Politics and sport do mix, as they have always done. Infantino, chief of the world’s foremost unchallenged sporting mafia, may claim otherwise, but his tenure shows that he knows that crude reality all too well. More >>

The Colby Review, AUKUS And Lopsided Commitments

Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 2:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark

This true steal for US diplomacy, and sad tribute to Homo boobiens on the part of the Australians, has continued with the review of AUKUS conducted by Undersecretary of Defense Policy Eldridge Colby. More >>

“Kill Everybody”: War Crimes And Pete Hegseth’s Lust For Blood

Friday, 5 December 2025, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The substance here is clearly not narcotics. Trump’s outrageous pardon of former Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernández, serving a 45-year sentence in a West Virginia prison for paving “a cocaine superhighway” to the United States, gave the game ... More >>