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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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Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz
Friday, 13 March 2026, 1:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Through an approach of existential attrition, the clerical regime in Tehran is now causing shocks and tingles in the global market, striking where influence is strongest: the petrol pump, the cash register, the hip pocket. More >>
Middle Power Nonsense: Australia, Canada And Capitulating To The Iran War
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 3:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
So far, the middling powers have not gotten far. In fact, they have shown themselves despicably fawning and incapable of taking a stance on the legality of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran. More >>
Starmer’s Self-Defence Fudge: The UK’s Growing Involvement In The Iran War
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The public inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the war, chaired by John Chilcot, noted that “the circumstances in which it was decided there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from satisfactory”. More >>
Doctrine And Proliferation: France, Forward Deterrence And Going Backwards
Monday, 9 March 2026, 1:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whether it is put down to Russia or the Iran War, neither of which justifies matters, the genie of nuclear proliferation is truly out of the bottle and running amok. More >>
It’s About Children And Education: Melania Trump At The UN Security Council
Saturday, 7 March 2026, 3:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As the UN, with its viscera, becomes increasingly confined to sepulchral functions, eyeing the tomb of international institutions, the mad in power are showing, at least for the moment, that they are setting and settling scores. More >>
Inflated Calamities: Security Threats To Anthony Albanese
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 4:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Threats to politicians are not matters to be dismissed lightly. The AFP received 951 reports of threatening, harassing, nuisance and offensive communications to parliamentarians in the last financial year. More >>
Going Native In The Trump Jungle: How It Became Legal To Attack Iran
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 1:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Most pitiful in the repudiation of the Charter by US allies are the stances of the supposed “middle powers”, a term as flattering as middle management. More >>
Roguish Justifications: The Apologists For The Attack On Iran
Monday, 2 March 2026, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With haughty hypocrisy, Iran was told that it could never acquire a nuclear weapon, leaving aside the uncomfortable fact that Israel was an undeclared nuclear power that avoided international regulations and scrutiny of its program. More >>
Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar
Sunday, 1 March 2026, 5:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the meantime, American diplomats who open their frontier-stretched mouths claiming interest for peace and negotiations should make everyone reach for the gun. More >>
New Endings: How Starmer Lost Gorton And Denton
Saturday, 28 February 2026, 7:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The result in Gorton and Denton was appropriate punishment for Starmer’s distant, estranged, incapable leadership, a government that has seemingly not governed where it needed to, and now facing a calamitous reckoning. More >>
It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats In The Caribbean
Friday, 27 February 2026, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Cuban ministry of the interior noted the killing of “four aggressors on the foreign vessel”. Six were also injured and remain in custody. “The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance.” More >>
Biblical Writ And Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson And Israel
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 1:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As a representative of the Christian evangelical movement, Huckabee sees Israel as caretakers of holy land, most notably Jerusalem, before the rapture, when Christ’s second coming will bring the world to its natural, apocalyptic conclusion. More >>
Condescending And Harmful: Australia’s Social Media Ban
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This month, Guardian Australia ran a bruising piece documenting the ban’s isolating effects on various members of the disabled community. More >>
Suing For Social Media Addiction: Mark Zuckerberg Takes The Stand
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 12:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The social media behemoths do need to be held accountable, but we should all be cautious how that accountability is asserted and enforced. More >>
Punishing Language: Queensland’s Antisemitism Bill
Saturday, 21 February 2026, 3:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In summary, the bill conferred extraordinary powers on a single Minister leading to overreach; enabled the government to criminalise political speech using “ambiguous and subjective standards for unlawful phrases”. More >>
Not Forgetting The Victims: Club Epstein And Crimes Against Humanity
Thursday, 19 February 2026, 4:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The documents revealed, according to the statement, “disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls”. More >>
Prohibitive Puffing: How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime
Wednesday, 18 February 2026, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The prohibitive nature of the tobacco excise in Australia has created a state of affairs uncannily similar to the banning of liquor for sale and distribution between 1920 and 1933 in the United States. More >>
Fearing Immigration: The Australian Coalition And The Return Of Bad Habits
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 7:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Dredged from history, unearthed from policies rusted and tried, attitudes about immigration and race issue from the usual well of dissatisfaction, anxiety and concerns that explain local problems through a frosted mirror. More >>
Misplaced Mourning: Farewelling The CIA World Factbook
Monday, 16 February 2026, 4:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Time to stop mourning a publication by an agency that failed to do with any accuracy what it was intended to do: assess with credible accuracy the political, military and economic health of the Soviet Union. More >>
Objective Fallacy: Eulogies On The Passing Of The Law Based International Order
Sunday, 15 February 2026, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ending the pantomime of the rules-based order does not spell an end to the system of power that continues to exist. It simply never went away. More >>
