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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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The Assange Case: A Flicker Of Hope In The UK High Court
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It remains to be seen whether this legal victory for the ailing Australian will yield a sweet harvest rather than the bitter fruit it has. He remains Britain’s most prominent political prisoner, refused bail and subject to jailing conditions vicariously ... More >>
Promising The Impossible: Blinken’s Out Of Tune Performance In Kyiv
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 1:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Even by the standards of US Secretaries of States, Blinken’s conduct in Kyiv proved brazen and shameless. More >>
A Brutal Punishment: The Sentencing Of David McBride
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 6:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
McBride is the only one to be convicted in the context of alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, not for their commission, but for furnishing documentation exposing them, including the connivance of a sullied leadership. The world of whistleblowing ... More >>
Dodging The Issue: The Biden Administration Report On Israel’s Use Of US Weapons
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 3:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a pitiful dodge, the report claims it is “difficult to determine facts on the ground in an active war zone”, a state of mind that is bound to lend itself to justifications. “The nature of the conflict in Gaza and the compressed review period ... More >>
A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
Sunday, 12 May 2024, 2:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Some clue of what will happen when the matter comes up for discussion in the Security Council can already be gathered by the sinking of a previous resolution for Palestinian admission last month. More >>
A Modest Proposal: The UN General Assembly and Palestinian Recognition
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite being described in some circles as such, the latest vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine’s status is hardly extraordinary. For one, it does not vest the Palestinian territories with statehood but burnishes its credentials ... More >>
Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering Of Al Jazeera
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 4:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Going after the motley press and news outlets while claiming to be a card-carrying member of the democracy club is far from prudent and more than a touch foolish, bound to make the critics croak and other fellow members decry. More >>
Forces Of Impunity: The US Threatens The International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 11:19 am | Binoy Kampmark
Far from threatening democracies of whatever flavour, the actions of the ICC can serve the opposite purpose, holding individuals in high office accountable for egregious crimes in international law. More >>
Nesting In Australia: Indian Spy Rings Take Root
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given the recent exchanges between the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, all efforts to pursue the sacred cows of prosperity and security, this was something of an embarrassment. More >>
Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 1:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Close attention should be paid to the disfiguring way Pezzullo uses history. More >>
When Safety Is A Fiction: Passing The UK’s Rwanda Bill
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 2:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On April 14, 2022, the government of Boris Johnson announced the Asylum Partnership Arrangement with Rwanda, which was intended “to contribute to the prevention and combating of illegally facilitated and unlawful cross border migration by establishing ... More >>
University Investments: Divesting From The Military-Industrial Complex
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 12:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number of US university campuses and beyond. Echoes of the Vietnam anti-war protests are being cited. The ... More >>
Anzac And The Pageantry Of Deception
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:27 am | Binoy Kampmark
This occasion is often seen as one to commemorate the loss of life and the integrity of often needless sacrifice, when it should be one to understand that a country with choices in war and peace decided to neglect them. The pattern risks repeating itself. More >>
Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
UNRWA was found to have, in place, “a significant number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure compliance with the humanitarian principles, with the emphasis on the principle of neutrality, and that it possesses a more developed approach to neutrality than ... More >>
Liz Truss And The West: A Failed Former Prime Minister Speaks
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From the outset, the premise of Ten Years to Save the West is confused. The aggrieved memoirist, rather than a sound political thinker, dominates the narrative. More >>
Warring Against Encryption: Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Those at X, and its executive, Elon Musk, begged to differ, choosing to restrict general access to the graphic details of the video in Australia alone. Those outside Australia, and those with a virtual private network (VPN), would be able to access ... More >>
Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 11:39 am | Binoy Kampmark
Platforms such as Meta and X engage in their own forms of censorship and information curation, their agenda algorithmically driven towards noise, shock and indignation. All the time, they continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism. More >>
Universities For AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 2:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
All in all, a clear wall of separation between the civic goals of learning and knowledge should be built to shield students and staff from the rapacious, murderous goals of the military industrial complex that continues to draw sustenance from deception, ... More >>
The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!
Friday, 19 April 2024, 12:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not only will Australians be paying a bill up to and above A$368 billion for nuclear powered submarines it does not need; it will also be throwing A$100 billion into the coffers of the military industrial complex over the next decade to combat a needlessly ... More >>
Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture Of Assange Continues
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded. The WikiLeaks founder has already ... More >>
