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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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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 >>
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 >>
