menu_open
Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark

The Conversation

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

When Safety is a Fiction: Passing the UK’s…

What a stinking story of inhumanity. A country intent on sending asylum seekers to one whose residents have actually applied for asylum and sanctuary...

previous day 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

University Investments: Divesting from the Military-Industrial Complex

The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number...

wednesday 50

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Anzac and the Pageantry of Deception

On April 25, along Melbourne’s arterial Swanston Street, the military parade can be witnessed with its bannered, medalled upholstery, crowds lost in...

30.04.2024 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat

The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future...

28.04.2024 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Liz Truss and the West: A Failed Former…

It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and...

27.04.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Warring Against Encryption: Australia is Coming for Your…

On April 16, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued with authoritarian glee legal notices to X Corp and...

24.04.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent…

The attitudes down under towards social media have turned barmy. While there is much to take Elon Musk to task for his wrecking ball antics at the...

23.04.2024 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick

“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity,...

21.04.2024 70

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!

T he skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of a n overly worked ...

19.04.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The judicial torture of Assange continues

United States President Joe Biden made a casual remark this month that he was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against...

17.04.2024 9

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture of Assange Continues

Only this month, the near comatose US President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request...

17.04.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack…

The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint....

16.04.2024 60

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Secret agreements: The Australian-Israel Defence Memorandum of Understanding

As the Australian government continues its vacuous utterances on Palestinian statehood, while denying it is supplying the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)...

16.04.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Secret Agreements: The Australian-Israel Defence Memorandum of Understanding

While the Australian government continues to pirouette with shallow constancy on the issue of Israel’s war in Gaza, making vacuous utterances on...

14.04.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Flicker of Hope: Biden’s Throwaway Lines on Assange

Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping company with his Japanese...

12.04.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Biden’s throwaway lines on Assange give flicker of hope

United States President Joe Biden was with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida when asked what he was doing regarding Australia’s request that...

12.04.2024 6

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

US defence official spills the beans: The real target of AUKUS is China

Official statements about the AUKUS security pact between Washington, London and Canberra rarely mention the target. Instead, they talk up “new...

10.04.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Death by Algorithm: Israel’s AI War in Gaza

Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of computer-digital...

10.04.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Germany, Gaza and the World Court: Broadening the…

Can it get any busier? The World Court, otherwise known as the International Court of Justice, has been swamped by applications on the subject of...

09.04.2024 70

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Aukusing for War: The Real Target Is China

The occasional burst of candour from US diplomats provides a striking, air clearing difference to their Australian and British counterparts. Official...

07.04.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Killing Aid Workers: Australia’s Muddled Policy on Israel

The Australian Prime Minister , Anthony Albanese, was distraught and testy. It seemed that, on this occasion, Israel had gone too far. Not too far...

05.04.2024 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Killing humanitarians: Israel’s war on aid workers in Gaza

Haaretz reported on April 2 that three missiles had been fired in rapid succession at the convoy by a Hermes 450 UAV on direction of a unit guarding...

03.04.2024 8

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Killing Humanitarians: Israel’s War on Aid Workers in…

Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value. Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues. But there...

03.04.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Conspiracy as Mother’s Milk

The human mind is often incapable of tolerating the limitless nature of a universe, the absence of a divine architect, or appreciate that intended...

02.04.2024 3

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The AUKUS cash cow is robbing us

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps recently visited Australia as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom...

02.04.2024 9

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Kategate: From Conspiracy to Contrition Extraction

Cancer is a stomping bugger of a disease. It seeks the worm-ridden end, a thief finding its way into your body unasked and willingly helping itself....

01.04.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Starvation in Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention

Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time. On January 26, the World Court,...

30.03.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs and Climate Change

The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy. Arab conquerors introduced...

29.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Distinctions Without Difference: The Security Council on Gaza…

The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude...

28.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Julian Assange tormented by the British High Court

Supporters of the WikiLeaks publisher Julian Asssange, who faces extradition to the United States, had hoped for a clear decision from the British...

28.03.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Purgatorial Torments: Assange and the UK High Court

What is it about British justice that has a certain rankness to it, notably when it comes to dealing with political charges? The record is not good,...

27.03.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer

Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of...

26.03.2024 50

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Julian Assange and the Plea Nibble

Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal...

23.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Censors celebrated as bill seeks to define misinformation, disinformation

The heralded arrival of the Internet, an information medium never before seen on such scale, caused enthusiasm. Humankind would go on to fawn over a...

22.03.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under

The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an...

22.03.2024 50

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Australia, the National Security Committee and the Iraq invasion

The National Archives of Australia on January 1 released a stash of cabinet documents, running into 240 from the John Howard government. Particularly...

20.03.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and…

Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National...

19.03.2024 50

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Siding with Spotify: The European Commission Fines Apple

It will come as little surprise that colossal Apple has been favouring its own music streaming service in snuffing and stuffing competitors. The...

17.03.2024 20

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Prejudicial Bans: Congress Tosses over TikTok

How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the...

14.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Alice in Aukusland: America first and the stillbirth of ‘Australian’ SSNs

AUKUS has become a stillborn project. Vassal states, satellites – in other words the butlers of international relations, the minders of the royal...

13.03.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

Aid wars over Gaza: Australia yet to resume funding to UNRWA

Israel’s ruthless campaign to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is unravelling. The...

13.03.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Aid Wars over Gaza: Resuming Funding to UNRWA

The steady and ruthless campaign by Israel to internationally defund the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),...

12.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

The campaign to free Assange: Reflections on 'Night Falls'

There was much to cherish about Night Falls in the Evening Lands: The Assange Epic, held on March 9 in Narrm/Melbourne’s Storey Hall. It was a...

11.03.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on 'Night…

The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are...

10.03.2024 30

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism in Gaza

The spectacle, if it did not say it all, said much of it. Planes dropping humanitarian aid to a starving, famine-threatened populace of Gaza (the...

07.03.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Wary of Sinophobia: Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN summit

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had to suffer bruising, ridicule and much castigation before he eventually reached the office in November 2022....

06.03.2024 7

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

A Wishful Gamble: Rugby League in Las Vegas

The history of such experiments is not promising. Why would those in the US like the game of rugby league, when an established code of superficial...

06.03.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Wary of Sinophobia: Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN…

It can take much bruising, much ridicule, and much castigation to eventually reach the plateau of wisdom. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who...

05.03.2024 10

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain’s Flawed Nuclear Deterrence

Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time,...

04.03.2024 40

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

Triumphant Down Under: Elbit Systems and the Australian…

Deeds of substance, rather than words of forced concern, will always take precedence in the chronicles of history. Superficially, the Australian...

03.03.2024 50

The AIM Network

Binoy Kampmark

99a99df6ba4c0f8a8015ea4b28235b59