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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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Fossil Fuels At COP30: Sacred, Profane And Unmentioned
Friday, 28 November 2025, 3:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The resulting COP 30 agreement, with the aspirational title “Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change” was a tepid affair. More >>
Contract Bikies And Bribed Politicians: Australia’s Nauru Refugee Deal
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Nauru has also become an absurdly outgrown feature of Australia’s fixation with Chinese influence in the South Pacific. The Nauru-Australia Treaty of December 2024 reads like an open chequebook for the acquisitive Adeang and his grasping cronies. More >>
Keeping It Dull: Australia’s Compulsory Voting System
Monday, 24 November 2025, 2:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What becomes clear is that gamey flavour in politics is not something Australian political strategists, representatives or planners can cope with. It’s far better to have that sort of pungency boiled down to something reliable, stable and tolerable. More >>
Parochialism, Justice And International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants For Israel
Sunday, 23 November 2025, 2:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Governments the world over often misuse international law as a pretext to attack their enemies. This effort by the Turkish court system might be seen as another play in the politicisation of human rights. More >>
Things Happen: Trump, The Crown Prince And Killing Khashoggi
Friday, 21 November 2025, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Since Khashoggi’s murder, the response from the Kingdom has been one of denial, distancing and detachment. It has involved isolating the killers as wayward enthusiasts and adventurers, lacking the force of a mandate. More >>
Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza And Israeli Policy
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 1:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The conditions created by the war and its relentless prosecution, one that has left 69,000 Palestinians dead, has engendered the reasons for an exodus. And through that, ethnic cleansing is making its mark, directly or otherwise. More >>
Competing For Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest
Monday, 17 November 2025, 3:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If there is no resolution between Ankara and Canberra, the Germans have promised to step in, as reluctant as the German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth seems to be. Tens of thousands of emitting participants will be simply dying to know. More >>
Chatbot Unions: The Dawn Of AI Marriages
Sunday, 16 November 2025, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The problems of AI sycophancy, where the responses from a chatbot affirm and encourage pre-existing prejudices and views, meet at a confluence of political messiness, yearning desire and the wish to simply hear those words: “I do.” More >>
Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift To Donald Trump
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 1:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Panorama special, titled “Trump: A Second Chance?”, goes on to give the impression that flag-waving men had also converged with menacing intent after the speech. More >>
Consultants And Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick
Saturday, 8 November 2025, 2:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Seeking the services of these consultancy guided platforms is an exercise in cerebral corrosion. More >>
A Question Of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome To Australia
Friday, 7 November 2025, 1:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project supposedly more lethal ... More >>
Targeting Palantir And Nvidia: Profits, Prophets And Overvalued AI Stocks
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 1:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Surely enough, Palantir’s shares fell by 8% on November 4 despite exceeding Wall Street estimates of returns for the third quarter. The stocks had risen to skyscraper levels – 173% for the year heading into trading that day. More >>
Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption And Data Centres
Monday, 3 November 2025, 1:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Much in keeping with the conduct of governments, Amazon operates with Machiavellian glee in an environment peopled by technological princelings and ill-deserving brats. More >>
Teasing The Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement On Nuclear Testing
Saturday, 1 November 2025, 2:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The nuclear club, with its Armageddon fanciers and Doomsday flirters, remains snobbishly determined to keep the world in permanent danger. An arms race is already taking place, however euphemised it might be. More >>
Furloughing Workers For Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons And The NNSA
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 12:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump has been fuzzy on the matter of nuclear weapons, acknowledging the nonsense of increasing the pile, yet simultaneously wanting tighter deadlines to deliver ever more modern weapons to the Pentagon. More >>
Mr President, Take Our Critical Minerals: Albanese In The White House
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 1:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In this grand abdication of responsibility by the press and bought think tankers, little in terms of detail was discussed about the next annexation of Australian control over its own affairs by the US. More >>
Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March Of AI Sycophancy
Monday, 27 October 2025, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The machine species of homo sapiens, subservient to the easily accessible tools, lazy if not hostile to difference, is already upon us with narcissistic ugliness. There just might be enough time to develop a response. More >>
Fake Boats And Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet
Sunday, 26 October 2025, 3:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the end, you are almost impressed by the man, having given legs to a fictional scheme that lasted for a quarter of a century with virtually no demurral. More >>
Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel And Humanitarian Aid In Gaza
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Of enormous irritation to the Israeli authorities is the continued insistence on cooperation with UNRWA. More >>
Inchoate Blobs: The National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 2:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
To have Hedges address the stuffed shirts, it would seem, was a case of over-egging the pudding, or, as it were, adding too much tang. More >>
