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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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Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance And Joshua Schulte
Monday, 5 February 2024, 1:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US Central Intelligence Agency, was one of the more impressive achievements of the WikiLeaks publishing organisation. As WikiLeaks ... More >>
Forget The Kids: Social Media, Congress and Child Safety
Sunday, 4 February 2024, 3:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee and the leaders of social media companies were on show to thrash out matters on technology ... More >>
Flashpoint For War: The Drone Killings At Tower 22
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 12:22 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The BBC’s characteristically mild-mannered note said it all: What is Tower 22? More to the point, what are US forces doing in Jordan? (To be more precise, a dusty scratching on the Syria-Jordan border.) These questions were posed in the aftermath ... More >>
Cannibalism, Conservatives And Lies: Australia’s Nemesis Story
Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 1:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Palace coups have become a seasonal tradition in Australian politics. Between 2007 and 2018, Australia had six prime ministers, four of whom were overthrown by their own parties, the first five never being allowed to complete their first term in office. ... More >>
Judicial Murder In Alabama
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 12:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
During the evening of January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith, having failed to convince the US Supreme Court to delay his execution, became yet another victim of judicial, state-sanctioned murder. A previous, failed effort, using lethal injection, had been ... More >>
Freezing Aid To Gaza: Israel’s International War Against The UNRWA
Monday, 29 January 2024, 12:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice. In a case brought by South Africa intended to facilitate a ceasefire and ease the suffering of the Gaza populace, Israel ... More >>
The ICJ’s Provisional Orders: The Genocide Convention Applies to Gaza
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 2:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On January 26, legal experts, policy wonks, activists and the plain curious waited for the order of the International Court of Justice, sitting in The Hague. The topic was that gravest of crimes, considered most reprehensible in the canon of international ... More >>
Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa’s Nuclear Program
Friday, 26 January 2024, 1:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists. They show that a regime, even one subject to sanctions and exiled to the diplomatic cold room, can still show aptitude ... More >>
May His Like Never Be Seen Again: Scott Morrison Departs
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow form, public service for private interest, and, ultimately, ... More >>
When The Cookie Crumbled: The Ron DeSantis Campaign Ends
Tuesday, 23 January 2024, 2:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
So much for that. Much had been promised by Florida Governor Ron De Santis to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House. But the attempt to wrest the Republican Party from the orange ogre’s meaty, waving hands was never convincing. In the end, ... More >>
Cancelling The Journalist: The ABC’s Coverage Of The Israel-Gaza War
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:49 am | Binoy Kampmark
What a cowardly act it was. A national broadcaster, dedicated to what should be fearless reporting, cowed by the intemperate bellyaching of a lobby concerned about coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. The investigation by The Age newspaper was revealing ... More >>
Bypassing Parliament: Westminster, The Royal Prerogative And Bombing Yemen
Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 3:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative. It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference to accountability before elected representatives. That prerogative, ... More >>
Israel’s Argument At The Hague: We Are Incapable Of Genocide
Monday, 15 January 2024, 4:12 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility. In a famous cabinet meeting in 1955, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion famously knocked ... More >>
Tall Tales And Murderous Restraint: Blinken On Gaza And Israel
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 3:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The role of the US State Department regarding Israel’s continued obliteration of Gaza is becoming increasingly clear. As the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces continue, the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is full of meaningless statements ... More >>
Holstering A Career: Wayne LaPierre Resigns From The NRA Executive
Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 3:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The now departed chief executive of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) should know. Wayne LaPierre’s time had come to resemble a dictatorship in a hurry, pinching the silver and stomping ... More >>
Circle Of Secrecy: The Iraq War’s Missing Cabinet Documents
Monday, 8 January 2024, 6:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
They are unlikely to be revelatory, will shatter no myths, nor disprove any assumptions. Cabinet documents exist to merely show that a political clique – the heart of the Westminster model of government, so to speak – often contain the musings of invertebrates, ... More >>
Funding The Imperium: Australia Subsidises US Nuclear Submarines
Friday, 5 January 2024, 1:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
AUKUS, the trilateral pact between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, was a steal for all except one of the partners. Australia, given the illusion of protection even as its aggressive stance (acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, becoming ... More >>
Killing Australians In Lebanon: Selected Targets; Selective Morality
Thursday, 4 January 2024, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The killing of an Australian-Lebanese national Ibrahim Bazzi, his Lebanese wife Shorouq Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi by the Israeli Defence Forces in a missile strike in southern Lebanon, has been an object exercise in selective outrage, selective ... More >>
The Economic Incentive: Blocking Israel’s Supply Chain
Tuesday, 2 January 2024, 5:27 pm | Binoy Kampmark
If demography is destiny, as Auguste Comte tells us, then economics must be current, pinching reality. The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement against the state of Israel which is seeing various manifestations. From an economic ... More >>
Criminal Assumptions: The Howard Cabinet And Invading Iraq
Monday, 1 January 2024, 3:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When war criminals can daub canvasses in blithe safety, rake in millions of dollars in after dinner speeches and bore governments to death with their shoddy words of wisdom, the world is not so much as it should be, but merely as it is. Former US ... More >>
