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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 Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies For Regime Change In Venezuela
Monday, 20 October 2025, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Narcotics has become the throbbing pretext, with Trump accusing Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro of being the leader of the drug trafficking organisation Cartel of the Suns. More >>
Exaggerated Utility: The Bogus Value Of The Pentagon Press Pass
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 1:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While the policy speaks to President Donald Trump’s ongoing mania with limiting the access of Fourth Estate outlets he dislikes, the question not being asked is how useful the Pentagon press ever was to begin with. More >>
Wounded Nostalgia: GQ Tips For The Modern Gentleman
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 8:13 am | Binoy Kampmark
A gentleman of the road is an opportunistic, gun toting highwayman (to be such is to be a thief accustomed to mobility). A gentleman of the “four outs” was a “vulgar upstart, without manners, without wit, without money, and without credit.” More >>
Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting And The Gaza Ceasefire
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 1:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The peace plan, in effect, is being executed to eliminate Hamas and any semblance of a Palestinian militant movement in favour of an Israel-Arab-US axis of preferment and normalisation. More >>
Outsized And Eccentric: The Farce Behind The Nobel Peace Prize
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 5:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In opting for María Corina Machado, seen as the main figure of the Venezuelan opposition to the current government of Nicolás Maduro, they have offered the prize to a Trump medium. More >>
The Factory Of Perceptions: Starmer’s Woes And Media Magnification
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 2:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In fact, media magnification has done wonders to wither and sunder Starmer’s appeal, which, in the scheme of things, wasn’t grand to begin with. More >>
Estranged Realities: Israel And The Global Sumud Flotilla
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 2:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel, for its part, aggressively sought to denude and denigrate the merits of the flotilla, both in terms of its mission and the integrity of its participants. More >>
The Shock Of The Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs
Friday, 3 October 2025, 1:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In the absence of regulations with true bite and an anti-corruption body with specific expertise on the wily, venal nature of the modern university, ideas for reform will suffer withering neglect. More >>
Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan
Thursday, 2 October 2025, 12:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump’s peace proposal comprises twenty points. They include a “deradicalized terror-free zone” and an immediate end to the war on its acceptance by the parties. More >>
Elder Abuse In International Relations: Attacking The United Nations At 80
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 5:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Security Council, the only body that approximates to a policing role in a busily anarchic international system, is often nobbled by great power disagreements. More >>
Attempts To Delegitimize: Netanyahu At The UN General Assembly
Monday, 29 September 2025, 9:11 am | Binoy Kampmark
On the issue of the two-state solution, the argument was slyly inverted. Israel did believe in the formula. It was those nasty, ungrateful Palestinians who never did. More >>
Violating The Terms Of Service: Microsoft, Azure And The IDF
Friday, 26 September 2025, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Both the IDF and Microsoft can now continue their working relationship, as long as those tepid terms of service are observed, even if it entails the continued program of extermination in Gaza and apartheid in the West Bank. More >>
Launching Silent Courier: MI6 Goes WikiLeaks
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 12:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The official announcement came from Sir Richard Moore, the outgoing M16 chief who decided to use Istanbul as the place to make it. “Today, we’re asking those with sensitive information on global instability, international terrorism, or hostile ... More >>
Symbolic Declarations: Palestinian Recognition At The UN General Assembly
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 1:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Unfortunately for the Palestinian cause, what is left in Gaza City is being levelled even as the diplomats and politicians congratulate themselves in New York. Israel’s odious ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is partially right in calling the recent ... More >>
Silvertongue’s Demise: Lord Mandelson’s Epstein Problem
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 2:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The greatest insult of all, and one that Trump inspires on most occasions, is the feigned (or genuine) ignorance of a person he has known or had an acquaintance with. More >>
Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission Finds Israel Responsible For Genocide In Gaza
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 12:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This report finds itself in the adhesive if gruesome company of such publications as Amnesty International’s December 2024 effort, You Feel Like You are Subhuman to the August 2025 conclusions of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. More >>
Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates And Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff And Students
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 12:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Should courage ever be mustered by cowed academics and the atomised student body, the cosmos of the vice-chancellor and those complicit in sustaining it can finally be terminated with little sorrow and much relish. More >>
After Five Decades, It Comes To This: The PNG-Australia Pukpuk Treaty
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 12:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With each utterance on sovereignty from Canberra, officials in Port Moresby would do well to consider the implications of the pact. PNG may have existed as a nominally independent state for fifty years, but that independence is set to come to an end. More >>
Kicking Downwards: Australia Excludes The Pacific Island Press Corps
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 7:33 am | Binoy Kampmark
Australia, long known as Washington’s regional deputy sheriff, looks down on its Pacific Island neighbours as basket cases for charity, potential enclaves for terrorism, and vulnerable to the temptation of rival powers. More >>
Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 2:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Rather than focusing on solutions that would presumably draw on people, insight and experience, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama thinks that appointing the world’s first AI minister is the way to go. Less messy, less problematic. Fewer people to ... More >>
