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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 Ninth Day At The Old Bailey: Torture Testimonies, Offers Of Pardon And Truth Telling
Sunday, 20 September 2020, 3:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 18. Central Criminal Court, London. The extradition trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey moved into a higher gear today. Testimonies spanned the importance of classified information in war journalism, the teasing offer of a pardon for Assange ... More >>
Assange’s Eighth Day At The Old Bailey: Software Redactions, The Iraq Logs And The Extradition Act
Friday, 18 September 2020, 4:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 17. Central Criminal Court, London. The extradition trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey struck similar notes to the previous day’s proceedings: the documentary work and practise of WikiLeaks, the method of redactions, and the legacy of exposing ... More >>
Assange’s Seventh Day At The Old Bailey: Diligent Redactions And Avoiding Harm
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 5:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
September 16, Central Criminal Court, London: Proceedings today at the Old Bailey regarding Julian Assange’s extradition returned to journalistic practice, redaction of source names and that ongoing obsession with alleged harm arising from WikiLeaks ... More >>
Assange’s Sixth Day At The Old Bailey: US Prison Conditions And Politicised Prosecutions
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 3:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Central Criminal Court, London. Today, witnesses appearing in the extradition trial of Julian Assange fleshed out some points touched upon the previous day: the fate awaiting the WikiLeaks publisher in the US prison system, and the political nature ... More >>
Assange’s Fifth Day At The Old Bailey: Supermax Prisons And Special Administrative Measures
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 4:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Having had a coronavirus scare towards the end of last week, necessitating a brief suspension of proceedings for September 11, the extradition proceedings for Julian Assange resumed with Eric Lewis. The chairman of the board of Reprieve, who has cut ... More >>
Rio Tinto Turns Cultural Vandal: The Destruction Of The Juukan Gorge Caves
Monday, 14 September 2020, 4:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was a calamity in cultural terms likened to the destruction of the Buddhist statues of Bamyan and the ancient city of Palmyra. The explosive eradication of two Aboriginal sites in West Australia’s Juukan Gorge in May, said to be 46,000 years old, moved ... More >>
Power Politics And Imperial Gambles: Australia Misses Out To The Taliban
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 4:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In grand power politics, there are only national interests, not friendships. This is a point often missed on Australia’s dedicated Americanophiles. Faith is put in such untestable propositions as extended nuclear deterrence. Faith is also unqualified. ... More >>
Assange’s Fourth Day At The Old Bailey: COVID In The Courtroom
Friday, 11 September 2020, 1:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, “I’m just saying about my charger. It’s in court and I’m going to run out of battery.” It was one of those moments that said much about the fourth day of ... More >>
Assange’s Third Day At The Old Bailey: Bias, Politics And Wars On Journalism
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 6:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The third day of extradition proceedings against Julian Assange at the Old Bailey resumed on the point of politics. Assange as a figure of political beliefs; Assange as a target of the Trump administration precisely for having them. The man sketching ... More >>
Assange’s Second Day At The Old Bailey: Torture, Drone Strikes And Journalism
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 3:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The highlights of the second day of Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings at the Central Criminal Court in London yielded an interesting bounty. The first was the broader public purpose behind the WikiLeaks disclosures, their utility in legal ... More >>
Sinking Transparency At The Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 5:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition proceedings against Julian Assange. Judge Vanessa Baraitser was concerned that approximately 40 individuals ... More >>
Vaccine Nationalism, Big Promises And Warped Speed
Monday, 7 September 2020, 3:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From sneering dismissiveness of the coronavirus as nothing more than a common cold to a grand promise to find a vaccine, President Donald Trump is all promises. “We remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year and maybe even before ... More >>
Pandemic Reflexes: Lockdowns And Arrests In Victoria, Australia
Saturday, 5 September 2020, 3:13 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ugly. Rough. Police in the Australian state of Victoria muscling their way in. The father and children watching. It had all arisen because the pregnant mother in question had engaged in conduct defined as incitement. In a post on her Facebook page, Zoe ... More >>
The Face Of British Trade: Tony Abbott Goes To Blighty
Friday, 4 September 2020, 2:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The question was put by interviewer Kay Burley on Britain’s Sky News network to UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock. “Is Tony Abbott the right kind of person to represent us – even if he’s a homophobic misogynist?” Hancock, while preferring to focus ... More >>
Fruits Of Illegality: The NSA, Bulk Collection And Warrantless Surveillance
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 1:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He has become part of the furniture when it comes to discussions about privacy rights and personal liberties, arguably an odd sort of thing for a man who also dealt in the shadows of intelligence secrets. But Edward Snowden has been doing his bit to ... More >>
Good Riddance: Facebook Threats And News Opportunities
Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 12:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news want only one thing: the reassurance that their prejudice is secure and their world view left unchallenged. The reader of Rupert ... More >>
The Sentencing Of Brenton Tarrant: Jailing The Man, Not The Great Replacement
Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 8:26 am | Binoy Kampmark
Brenton Tarrant was sentenced last week. The Australian national who butchered, with relish, 51 individuals in Christchurch at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, found himself facing something unique in New Zealand: jail for life without ... More >>
Wasting The Elderly: Coronavirus And The Calculus Of Death
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 4:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welled-up because of it. In March, he feared that the world’s elderly citizens risked being marginalised in any pandemic policy. “If anything is going to hurt the world, it ... More >>
Australia-China Relations: Down Under Squabbling
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 3:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
These are proving testy times for Australian-Chinese relations. Last week, Chinese authorities announced that an investigation would be conducted into claims that Australia has been using unfair dumping practices for its wine on the Chinese market. This ... More >>
Burying The Hatchet Act: Donald Trump’s Unconventional Convention
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 4:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Conventions suggest norms, a set of accepted rules. Behaviour is agreed upon in advance. In the case of US political conventions, there is much cant and gaudy ceremony. Certain transgressions are simply not contemplated. But the Trump administration ... More >>
