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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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Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering And Venezuelan Oil
Sunday, 11 January 2026, 5:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Putting America first,” as the Order makes clear, means just that. The Venezuelan people don’t count, except as props in tawdry oratory. More >>
The Politics Of Premature Adjudication: The Bondi Royal Commission
Friday, 9 January 2026, 4:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A bureaucratic, costly bonanza is in the offing. To Richardson’s review will be added the federal royal commission linking arms, presumably, with the NSW royal commission. More >>
Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent
Thursday, 8 January 2026, 12:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With the now former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores facing such charges in New York, other world leaders are doubtless feeling a prevailing gloom. More >>
A Shameful Sham: The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels And Maduro
Wednesday, 7 January 2026, 2:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The rewritten indictment against Maduro reveals how presidential doctrines can be used to force evidence upon a Procrustean bed, sawing or extending it to fit the set dimensions of a dogma. More >>
Confronting Genocide With Civil Disobedience: The Pine Gap Protests And Gaza
Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 4:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Two of those protestors, Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker, brought attention to the base’s activities when they blocked Hatt Road, the main access route to Pine Gap in October 2023. More >>
Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction
Monday, 5 January 2026, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The January 3 kidnapping of Maduro and his wife by US forces was an audacious breach of the sovereignty guarantee under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. More >>
The Don-Roe Doctrine In Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention In Venezuela
Sunday, 4 January 2026, 6:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Venezuela has little to nothing to do with the flow of cocaine into the US. But there is oil to be seized and managed by US companies and the Don-roe doctrine to maintain. More >>
Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland
Friday, 2 January 2026, 3:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Somaliland Foreign Ministry is playing dumb on the issue of becoming a dumping ground for Palestinians, effectively turning into a client state for Israeli interests. More >>
Spyware And Murder: The NSO Group, Governments And Khashoggi
Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 5:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The October 2020 lawsuit filed by Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) was dismissed in December 2022 by US District Judge John Bates for reasons of head of state immunity. More >>
A Thesis Confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz And The Israel Lobby
Monday, 29 December 2025, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One need not bother about the accusation that Epstein might have been in the specific pay of the Israeli intelligence service to show where his allegiances lay. He was a dedicated spear carrier for Israeli interests. More >>
The Charge Of The Padded Brigade: England In Australia
Sunday, 28 December 2025, 8:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The ones to really feel the pinch will be the treasurers of the Australian Cricket Board, having lost millions on games that did not make the five days. More >>
Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union And Free Speech
Friday, 26 December 2025, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For holding and promoting such views, an asset freeze has been placed upon him within the EU jurisdiction, along with an entry and transit ban across the EU. More >>
Indiscriminate Suppression: Attacking Pro-Palestinian Protests After The Bondi Killings
Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 4:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The fuss will come in the form of a constitutional challenge from the Palestine Action Group, Jews Against the Occupation and the First Nations-led Blak Caucus in the new year. More >>
Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates In Australia
Monday, 22 December 2025, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia is regarded as a liberal democracy, with a smattering of human rights legislation its various governments observe with resignation, when convenient. Along with most states, its attitude to the UN and its various emissaries remains guarded. More >>
The Problem With Machado: Assange Sues The Nobel Foundation
Sunday, 21 December 2025, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While this complaint remains a purist’s attempt to return the peace prize to a more conventional reading, the practice of awarding this inflated award to figures of ill-repute and sullied reputation will be hard to shake. More >>
Confusion At NATO: Rutte, Russia And Delusions About Trump
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 1:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The howling subtext here is Ukraine’s increasing irrelevance to US foreign policy, evident in the parallel lines of European-Ukrainian negotiations on the war, and US-Russian discussions that sup from a different cup. More >>
Using The Slain: Israel Exploits The Bondi Beach Shootings
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, his own political destiny and the interests of Jews in a terrible, terrifying mix. More >>
Culinary Muddles At UNESCO: Italian Cuisine As Intangible Cultural Heritage
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 2:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Furthermore, how these traditions of culinary transmission and engagement survive in a post-industrial age is skirted over. But food, Barthes writes, is a medium through which one “experiences a certain national continuity”. More >>
Schemes Of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues And Human Rights
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 2:43 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The UN Human Rights Council was the next fashioned target, with February’s withdrawal from the body justified on the basis that it had “protected human rights abusers by allowing them to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny”. More >>
Perfectly Appropriate: Trump, Infantino And The FIFA Peace Prize
Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Politics and sport do mix, as they have always done. Infantino, chief of the world’s foremost unchallenged sporting mafia, may claim otherwise, but his tenure shows that he knows that crude reality all too well. More >>
