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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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Anzac as Apologia and Religion
Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 1:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Soaked to the core, Melbournians gathered around the War Memorial in thousands, gazing at the flickering, all-resistant eternal flame in an annual tribute to Australia’s fallen. Each year, the secular religion of Anzac (the Australian and New Zealand ... More >>
Trump, the DOJ and Julian Assange - Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 21 April 2017, 3:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
There had been some doubts from initial enthusiasts about WikiLeaks once information from leaks released on its site started puncturing holes in an already worn Democratic campaign in 2016. More >>
Cults of Old Age: The Passing of Emma Morano
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 11:14 am | Binoy Kampmark
The novelist Anthony Powell spoke of old age as penalisation for a crime one had not committed. Obviously, not being biblically inclined in that sense, the antics of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden were discounted. More >>
Donald Trump, North Korea and Nuclear Brinkmanship
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 11:03 am | Binoy Kampmark
Warring toddlers, fanatical children, one-eyed adolescents who confuse noise with constructive contribution - this is the state of the world, with the recent, and ongoing spat chapter of Washington and Pyongyang. More >>
The Mother of All Bombs Goes to Afghanistan - Binoy Kampmark
Monday, 17 April 2017, 9:42 am | Binoy Kampmark
These are the times where magnitude and size matters. Bombs in number with much heft and presence are being sought to root out those non-state jihadists of the Prophet, destructively maiming and killing all before them in the name of the next heavily ... More >>
Pompeo, Power and WikiLeaks - Binoy Kampmark
Monday, 17 April 2017, 9:32 am | Binoy Kampmark
“Vested interests deflect from the facts that WikiLeaks publishes by demonizing its brave staff and me.” Julian Assange, The Washington Post , Apr 11, 2017. More >>
Dreaming of Coal: Turnbull Goes to India
Sunday, 16 April 2017, 5:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
This was not a trip of orient driven romance, but one of dull, bottom line economics. Less curry than cabbage; more brown nosing than elevation. Australia's increasingly wooden Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, did not exude colour or charisma as he was ... More >>
Forced Removal from United Airlines - Binoy Kampmark
Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 4:57 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Flying United Airlines was never a pleasant business. Functional, sterile, with staff more appropriately disposed to a deep freeze morgue than the hot blood of enthusiastic living, the airline was always an entity you wished ill towards, even as the flight ... More >>
Joining the War Train: Trump’s Liberal Cheer Leaders
Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 4:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
At the psychological heart of every liberal is a milk soft tendency to succumb to the authoritarian personality, a feeling that, just around the corner, resistance will fold. Before such authority, adoration and bruising follow in menacing union. More >>
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia
Monday, 10 April 2017, 5:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was hard to tell whether Australia’s Federal Police authorities, along with their Victorian colleagues, were gloating at their latest effort. Thrilled at the unearthing of a stash of methamphetamine, a form of it colloquially known as ice, ... More >>
The Hazara Dilemma: Ghani in Australia - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 3:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Hazara Dilemma: Ghani in Australia By Binoy Kampmark Australian government officials are at it again, and the visit by President Ashaf Ghani to Canberra on Sunday piqued interest amongst various members of the Afghan community concerned about the next ... More >>
Trump in Outer Space: The NASA Bill - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 3:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The NASA authorisation bill was another Trump huff and puff show, brimming with the usual air of minted if misplaced confidence. “My fellow Americans, this week in the company of astronauts I was honoured to sign the NASA Transition Authorization ... More >>
Sebastian Gorka: Dreams of Fighting Jihad - Binoy Kampmark
Monday, 3 April 2017, 3:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Counter-terrorism has been a pop field for some decades. As vague as what it purports to counter, it has generated a pundocracy of sorts, guns and mouths for hire across the US imperium and its associate powers. More >>
Brexit and Away! - Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 31 March 2017, 4:32 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Painful moves and painful movements have been underway in Brexiting Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK initiated the Brexit bluster via letter, and March 29, 2017 may well go down in the annals of the European project as more than a mere ... More >>
What Cost Liberty? Civilians in the “Liberation” of Mosul
Thursday, 30 March 2017, 4:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Bombs do not have a conscience, however named, blessed or created. They go, at least in a rough sense, where directed, and if the deliverer is ill disposed, confused or simply incompetent, disaster follows. More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Disaster As Joy - Cyclone Debbie Strikes
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 5:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“If the building starts to break up, protect yourself w[sic] mattresses, rugs etc under strong table or hold onto solid fixture.” Queensland Ambulance, Twitter, Mar 28, 2017 More >>
The Electronics Ban and Lessons in Futility - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 12:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Security measures are often exercises in futility. Resembling placebos, they are the reassurance authorities make as acts of intrusive inconvenience. Queues are increased at airports in the vain hope that an elusive gel carrier will be nabbed before the ... More >>
The Demon Drink and Cricket Sponsorship - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 12:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A strong tone of temperance has characterised discussions about Australian cricket of late. The tone got somewhat more excited with the announcement that Cricket Australia, after two decades, would end its relationship with Carlton and United Breweries, ... More >>
Cyclone Watch in Australia - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 12:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The curious, sweaty mammals of North Queensland in Australia are bracing themselves for yet another cyclone with an anodyne name. Cyclone Debbie might have impressed you as a person who turns up at the door asking for donations for the Red Cross Appeal. ... More >>
Grief and Losing Father - Binoy Kampmark
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 11:01 am | Binoy Kampmark
Grief can be motivator and inhibitor. It buffers, even repels realities, supplanting them with flowing tears and shaking hale storms. But it can also be acutely penetrating, insightfully unfurling truths as battle banners for veracity. More >>
