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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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Romancing Coal: The Adani Obsession - Binoy Kampmark
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 12:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The rain pours with torrential fury in north Queensland, opening up with ominous welcome as it slices through layers of stifling humidity. But the fury is also being registered in the rag like bleating sheet known to locals as the Bullie, that beacon ... More >>
Free Speech Confusions: Australia’s Q&A Program
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 3:53 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Monday’s discussion on Australia’s Q&A program , an open forum supposedly designed to bring voices to an open stage of feted experts and pundits, turned on a few confusing points on free speech. The discussion demonstrated a sharp divorce ... More >>
The Murky World of Deradicalisation - Binoy Kampmark
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 10:56 am | Binoy Kampmark
It has attracted money and the implementation of programs, another standard diversionary tactic common in many societies. It is all touted as a good bit of social engineering, a form of anger management by other means. The basis of that problematic term “deradicalisation” ... More >>
Brexit Ping Pong - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 2:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The administrative ping pong of Brexit continues, an exercise that merely prolongs both pain and uncertainly. Confused, parliamentarians await the next twist before the inevitable surrender. The last round of votes touched on two House of Lords amendments ... More >>
Russia, Ukraine, and the ICJ: Opening Arguments at The Hague
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 10:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
Matters have been far from plain sailing for the parties in the Ukrainian conflict, and Kiev was determined to remind international audiences about matters in taking Russia to the International Court of Justice. More >>
Poaching in Europe’s Suburbs - Binoy Kampmark
Monday, 13 March 2017, 11:31 am | Binoy Kampmark
“There has never been a case like this in a zoo in Europe, an assault of such violence, evidently for this stupid trafficking of rhinoceros horns.” Thierry Duguet, head of Parc Zoologique de Thoiry More >>
WikiLeaks, “Year Zero” and the CIA Hacking Files
Friday, 10 March 2017, 1:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“It is now up to the device and OS manufacturers, like Apple, Google, or Samsung, to fix their volcanoes back into mountains.” Telegram Statement, Mar 8, 2017 More >>
Electoral Interference as Reality: A Brief History
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 4:52 pm | Binoy Kampmark
We should not forget the encouragement: hack those emails, extolled Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign in 2016. It was the first public evocation of its sort, an invitation to a foreign power, in this case Russia, to indulge in cyber ... More >>
Trump, Twitter and the Ban Debate - Binoy Kampmark
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 4:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is said that Twitter has been responsible for stirring nascent revolutions in the Middle East, going beyond its initial description as the Seinfeld platform of social media. It has also been targeted by authorities for stirring the pot, lighting ... More >>
Beguiling the Hosts: India’s Fall to Spin Bowling
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 3:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It defies the belief of recent memory. Not even the Sheikh of Tweak, Shane Warne, managed such feats on the dry, square-turning pitches on the subcontinent. India, of whom little poor has been said of in recent months, were meant to exert their ... More >>
The Reality Show Comes to Congress: Trump’s Joint Address
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 4:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Let us tear through these Trumpland evocations, the business pitches of this show and publicity act that was the first address by the President to a joint sitting of the US Congress. There were the common themes; there were the contradictory messages; ... More >>
One Nation Train - Binoy Kampmark
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 4:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The global populist fever is catching. Put the nation first before all else, patria before sense. Make America Great Again. One Nation before any other. Australia has been a fairly non-responsive patient to that effect, keeping its symptoms to the ... More >>
The Extradition Saga of Kim Dotcom - Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 24 February 2017, 5:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The hunger with which US officials pursue copyright or general intellectual property violations is insatiably manic. The degree of that hunger is expressed by the now suspended, and most likely defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, an attempt to further ... More >>
From Rights to Repentance: Norma McCorvey and Roe v Wade
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 5:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The late Norma McCorvey changed US legal and political history as the plaintiff “Jane Roe” in the 1973 US Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade . More >>
A Tale of Two Realities: Donald Trump and Israel
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 4:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was supremely wicked, and rapidly meandered into horse muddied waters. US President Donald J. Trump had openly expressed what many a US politician has felt but avoided for the sake of false decency: the two-state solution regarding Israel and Palestine ... More >>
Adolf, The Donald and History - By Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 17 February 2017, 4:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
History may not be as useless as art, but it certainly performs a function that is almost without utility. George Santayana may well have crowed about the warnings of repeating historical mistakes if not learnt – the errant pupil ill-read would ... More >>
Cancer as Demonology and Defeat - Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 17 February 2017, 4:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cancer is a mighty force of nature, an architecture that springs around the body with seemingly committed enthusiasm. Like a distraught and eager lover, it moves in on your mind, cloaking and stifling the body. It occupies your being with battalions, ... More >>
The Resignation of Michael Flynn - Binoy Kampmark
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 3:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It takes little these days for the darkened air of the Kremlin to have an impact on the politics of other countries. Across continents, it has become a tenured dark eminence with President Vladimir Putin on his irrepressible steed: Where will it ... More >>
Bungling in Yemen: Trump and the Cult of the Action Hero
Monday, 13 February 2017, 3:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Bungling in Yemen: Trump and the Cult of the Action Hero By Binoy Kampmark “Rather than advancing a political solution that almost everyone agrees is the only way to solve the conflict, it seems the Trump administration’s actions are just adding ... More >>
Legal Stutters: Trump Falters in the Ninth Circuit
Monday, 13 February 2017, 12:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It seems in little need of recapitulation, but the Executive Order 13769, otherwise known as “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” has been living a charmed and distorted life. More >>
