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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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Vengeful in Defeat: Hillary Fantasises about WikiLeaks
Friday, 20 October 2017, 12:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Hillary Clinton mope tour, which should have reached a high water mark, has gone global. It entails drumming up her credentials (immaculate, we are told, but unnoticed), and pouring upon the man who beat her to the White house (a danger to the world). ... More >>
Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails
Friday, 20 October 2017, 12:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This is a government that takes pride in its hard headedness and faux populism. Knowing it would have to brave a sceptical, even baffled Senate, Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, resembling a bit dictator struggling for traction, decided to ignore ... More >>
Trump’s Iran Deal
Monday, 16 October 2017, 6:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Bad deals. Very bad – unless, of course, they are minted in the United States, with Make America Great Again credentials. Hardly the stuff of presidential clout and oratorical flair, but the US president is making good his word to rain on the ... More >>
Climate Change Insurgent: Tony Abbott’s Crusade
Saturday, 14 October 2017, 6:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He is the inimitable, true political ugliness, the bad boy with a mistimed punch. While not quite professorial in his lunacy (that honour will have to go to Pauline Hanson of One Nation, whose sincere bigotry remains pungent), he aspires to it with ... More >>
Big Batteries: Elon Musk and Powering South Australia
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 1:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
At the end of last month, Tesla boss Elon Musk held a party in South Australia’s mid-north. It seemed premature, but Musk was typically confident. Construction on what will be the world’s most powerful lithium ion battery was going well. More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Signals from the Adult Day Care Center
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 5:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him.” Senator Bob Corker on Donald Trump, New York Times , Oct 8, 2017 More >>
Protesting Against Adani: The National Day of Action
Monday, 9 October 2017, 4:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Be careful, you might get run over.” So squawks an administrator from the local RMIT University as she dashes towards Princess Park, Melbourne. The need for this jet propulsion enthusiasm is clear: a gathering is being organised in the park, amongst ... More >>
Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, and the Nobel Prize
Monday, 9 October 2017, 11:08 am | Binoy Kampmark
“There are no right hands for the wrong weapons”- Beatrice Fihn, ICAN Executive Director, Oct 6, 2017. More >>
The Face of Surveillance: Turnbull’s Recognition Database
Friday, 6 October 2017, 6:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Never miss an opportunity in the security business. A massacre in Las Vegas has sent its tremors through the establishments, and made its way across the Pacific into the corridors of Canberra and the Prime Minister’s office. Australia’s Malcolm ... More >>
Boris Johnson goes Caracas
Friday, 6 October 2017, 4:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Shame people with no knowledge or understanding of Libya want to play politics with the appallingly dangerous reality in Sirte.” Boris Johnson, Twitter, Oct 3, 2017 More >>
A Cuban Mystery: The US Embassy in Havana
Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 9:38 am | Binoy Kampmark
Cuba has, for decades, been a form of political pathology for US political consciousness. Fidel Castro loomed in his indestructible guise, tormenting a succession of American presidents with his seeming indestructibility. Efforts at deposing and assassination ... More >>
What’s in a Word? Terrorism in Las Vegas
Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 9:32 am | Binoy Kampmark
‘We don’t know what his belief system was at this time.’ Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, Oct 2, 2017 More >>
Macklemore and the NRL Grand Final: The Politics of Sports
Sunday, 1 October 2017, 2:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One cultivated myth of human endeavour is the creaky and far from convincing idea that politics and sport are strangers, gazing indifferently from distant across tables, never to engage. Battles on the field can be waged without politics, while politics ... More >>
Kurdistan’s Referendum Gamble
Friday, 29 September 2017, 9:38 am | Binoy Kampmark
“We hope for a unified Iraq to annihilate ISIS, and certainly a unified Iraq to push back on Iran.” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House spokeswoman, Sep 25, 2017 More >>
Death of the Playboy: Hugh Hefner’s World
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 8:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The style he created wasn’t just about women, it was about connoisseurship.” Camille Paglia, Playboy , May 1995 More >>
Punishing the Media: CIA Fantasies & William J. Casey
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 9:40 am | Binoy Kampmark
“Unauthorized disclosures of classified information have become a cancer which undermines presidential authority to conduct foreign policy, our national security process, and our intelligence capabilities.” - William J. Casey, Director of the ... More >>
Angela Merkel: The Ikea Politician
Monday, 25 September 2017, 7:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The recipe for her success, which she has only latterly discovered, is that she’s been able to develop an image as someone who is tuned in to the German soul.” Oskar Niedermayer, Sep 22, 2017 More >>
Benjamin Netanyahu, Penguins & the UN
Monday, 25 September 2017, 10:15 am | Binoy Kampmark
“That’s why Israel’s policy regarding the nuclear deal with Iran is very simple: Change it or cancel it. Fix it or nix it.” - Benjamin Netanyahu, UN General Assembly Address, 2017 More >>
The Intolerance of Tolerance: Tony Abbott’s Head Butt
Monday, 25 September 2017, 9:55 am | Binoy Kampmark
“This was a violent and criminal act, nothing whatsoever to do with the point of view of those of us who favour a yes vote.” - Senator George Brandis, Australian Attorney-General, Sep 22, 2017. More >>
Brexiting Hard: Boris Johnson Goes to War
Friday, 22 September 2017, 7:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Times was none too pleased, riled and concerned. Contributors to The Spectator were wondering whether an imminent implosion was about to take place. Who would profit from this act of suicide, this ritual of Tory party cannibalism? The Labour leader, ... More >>
