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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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Assange’s Return To Australia: The Resentment Of The Hacks
Monday, 1 July 2024, 1:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
His return to Australia after striking a plea deal with the US Department of Justice sees him in a state with some of the most onerous secrecy provisions of any in the Western world. More >>
Hunted Biden: The First Presidential Debate Disaster
Sunday, 30 June 2024, 12:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden seemed a vanishing shadow, longing for soft slippers and the fireplace with cocoa, a case of comfort rather ... More >>
Assange’s Release: Exposing The Craven Media Stable
Friday, 28 June 2024, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of the Fourth Estate have always preferred to remain uncritical of power and ... More >>
The Release Of Julian Assange: Plea Deals And Dark Legacies
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 1:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Alleged to have committed 18 offences, 17 novelly linked to the odious Espionage Act, the June 2020 superseding indictment against Assange was a frontal assault on the freedoms of publishing and discussing classified government information. More >>
DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate For Murder And Torture
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 1:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
DINA was, according to the decree, created for “the purpose of producing intelligence collection requirements for the formulation of policies, plans and adoption of measures required for the security and development of the country”. More >>
Victory For The Disposables: The Sentencing Of The Hindujas
Monday, 24 June 2024, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On June 21, four members of the Hinduja family, the UK’s wealthiest according to the 2024 Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated value of £37.196 billion, were convicted in a Swiss court of first instance for exploiting staff at their Geneva ... More >>
Quibbling About Killing: Netanyahu’s Spat With Washington
Saturday, 22 June 2024, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No longer could Israel be seen to be self-sufficiently impregnable, its defences firmly holding against all adversaries. In a perverse twist on that dilemma, a strong ally providing support is bound to be resented. More >>
Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves The War Cabinet
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 1:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet, which had served as a checking forum against the conventional security cabinet, presented a perfect opportunity for those who felt his presence stifling. More >>
Ukraine, Continued Aid, And The Prevailing Logic Of Slaughter
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 8:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With Ukraine looking desperately bloodied at the hands of their Russian counterparts, the horizon of the conflict had seemingly shrunk of late. Fatigue and desperation had set in. More >>
Diamonds And Cold Dust: Slaughter At Nuseirat
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:22 am | Binoy Kampmark
The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity’s gloomy archive. It was intended as a golden operation and had been months in the making. More >>
The Eu Elections: The March Of The Right
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 12:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogeneous in any sense, nor hoping for a single theme of triumph. More >>
Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning Of Hindutva
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 1:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Whatever Modi’s sweet words for the Indian republic, there was no getting away from the fact Hindutva’s juggernaut has lost its shine. More >>
Tory Nightmares: The Return Of Nigel Farage
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 12:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. More >>
Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems And Australia’s Future Fund
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The findings gave Shoebridge a chance to spray the board administering the fund with gobbets of chastening wisdom. “The Future Fund is meant to benefit future generations. That rings hollow when they are investing in companies making equipment that ends ... More >>
Ming Vase Politics: UK Labour And Purging The Corbynistas
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 12:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Riling, obstructing and barring such figures serves to cloud the message, impairing an electoral effort that may, ironically enough, see the Ming Vase slip out of Starmer’s desperate hands. More >>
The Stuffing Of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Israeli response to attacks on its citizens on October 7 last year, increasingly enfeebled by reality, long ago moved into the realm of farce. More >>
Soaking Sunak Calls The Sodding Election
Friday, 31 May 2024, 5:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
On July 4, the United Kingdom will be going to the polls. More >>
A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence In New Caledonia
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
Much of the violence, stimulated by pressing inequalities and propelled by more youthful protestors, have caught the political establishment flatfooted. Even Kanak pro-independence leaders have urged such protestors to resist resorting to violence in favour of political ... More >>
Australia’s Anti-ICC Lobby
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 1:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite being an enthusiastic signatory and ratifier of conventions, Canberra has tended to blot its copybook over the years in various key respects. More >>
A Misplaced Purity: Democracies And Crimes Against International Law
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In this context, the application for warrants regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, merits particular interest. More >>
