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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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The Despotism of British Sterling - Binoy Kampmark
Thursday, 13 October 2016, 3:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While British Prime Minister, Theresa May, keeps insisting that Brexit pathway will be a smooth, relatively painless process filled without dramatic compromise to lifestyle and outlook, the traders, stockbrokers and wolves of the City have gone about their ... More >>
Searching for a Mender: Guterres as UN Secretary General
Friday, 7 October 2016, 4:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Millions of people need its sanctuary and protection. History will frown on those who do not build.” Editorial, The Guardian , Aug 15, 2011 More >>
Droning Julian Assange: The Clinton Formula - Binoy Kampmark
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 2:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“We believe in what we are doing… If you are pushed you push back.” Julian Assange More >>
The Curse of the Honorary Doctorate: The John Howard Case
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The honorary degree system at universities tends to be a rotten business, though Stephen Edward Epler, in his Honorary Degrees: A Survey of Their Use and Abuse (1943), regarded them as “perhaps the most important honorific in the nation.” More >>
The Debates of Loathing: Trump and Clinton at Hofstra
Friday, 30 September 2016, 5:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“It’s all words, it’s all soundbites.” Donald Trump, Hofstra University, Sep 26, 2016 More >>
MH17 and the Joint Investigation Team - Binoy Kampmark
Friday, 30 September 2016, 11:46 am | Binoy Kampmark
The investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over two years ago always had the flavour of pre-emption, caked with assumptions of premature adjudication. Neither side, be it the assembled Joint Investigation Team, nor those on the Russian ... More >>
Re-electing Jeremy Corbyn: The Triumph of Momentum
Tuesday, 27 September 2016, 4:44 pm | Binoy Kampmark
He has proven to be one of the most stubborn of creatures in a political sense. Unlike the dinosaur of political thinking he has been accused of being, British Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn continues to survive the meteorites, and more nuanced weapons, directed ... More >>
Punishing the Punished: Chelsea Manning’s Fate
Tuesday, 27 September 2016, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It was not sufficient for US military authorities to sentence whistleblower Chelsea Manning to the onerous, disproportionate sentence of 35 years imprisonment for conniving with WikiLeaks in releasing classified material. (People have gotten less for gruesome, ... More >>
Controlling Bodies: Italy’s Fertility Campaign
Sunday, 25 September 2016, 12:28 am | Binoy Kampmark
Demography is destiny, and the destiny of aging Europeans is long run death. How the demographic strategists have dealt with this varies, but the tendency in various countries is either to accept refugees en masse (the now questioned Merkel solution ... More >>
Bartering on Refugees: The Costa Rica Solution
Thursday, 22 September 2016, 4:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“We will also participate in a US-led program to re-settle Central American refugees currently in a resettlement centre in Costa Rica.” Malcolm Turnbull, Australian PM, Sep 21, 2016 More >>
Binoy Kampmark: The Washington Post and Edward Snowden
Thursday, 22 September 2016, 4:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The tensions between those engaged in the dangerous and compromising pursuit of whistleblowing, and those who use the fruit of such efforts has been all too coarsely revealed in the Washington Post stance on Edward Snowden . More >>
Nuclear Theatre: The North Korean Show - Binoy Kampmark
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 4:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is a performance where few are laughing. The DPRK has demonstrated again why it remains by far the most theatrically foolish yet prescient of powers. Held hostage by the plump boyish leader, Kim Jung-un the nuclear program of that benighted state ... More >>
The WADA Hack: Transparency and the Uneven Playing Field
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 4:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The disclosure of confidential material has its own sometimes fraught ethics. When it comes to medical information, assumptions abound that confidentiality comes first. Not, however, in international sports, a notorious field where the corrupt rub shoulders ... More >>
Selling Australia’s Security and Refugee agenda
Monday, 19 September 2016, 3:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Island mentalities do not travel well. When their sellers hawk the agenda before world forums, these start looking ludicrous. Coming close to this ludicrous display is Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, who has done what other Australian ... More >>
Rocking the US-Philippines Alliance - Binoy Kampmark
Monday, 19 September 2016, 3:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“I do not like the Americans. It’s simply a matter of principle for me.” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Sep 12, 2016 More >>
Binoy Kampmark: David Cameron, Libya and Disaster
Friday, 16 September 2016, 5:11 pm | Binoy Kampmark
David Cameron, Libya and Disaster: The Findings of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Binoy Kampmark More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Australia’s Global ‘Exit’
Friday, 16 September 2016, 5:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“Australian values and way of life are also at risk from insidious institutions such as the unelected swill that is the United Nations.” Senator Roberts, One Nation Party, Sep 14, 2016. More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Illness in the White House
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Exciting times, indeed. The latest bustling instalment in the Clinton-Trump saga of “produce your documents” now goes to the issue of health. The Democratic contender for the White House found herself feeling rather off, which made doctors order that ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Eaten Fish and the Refugee Crisis
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:30 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Graphic depictions of cruelty come in an assortment of forms. The cartoon medium can convey the grotesque with brilliant effect, proving both witheringly caustic and poignant. The prints of Otto Dix emphasise the cripple, the mangled body, the ... More >>
Filipino Brute: President Rodrigo Duterte and US Imperialism
Saturday, 10 September 2016, 9:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Empires are often in the habit of producing brutes. Colonies, once left to their own devices, can either improve in the face of history, or degenerate. The Philippines provides an example of cruelty fashioned into office: dictatorships with a pro-US ... More >>
