Distinctions Without Difference: The Security Council on Gaza Passes
The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude in […]
Articles by Dr 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 […]
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 the […]
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 […]
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 information medium never before seen […]
Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq
Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of […]
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 company, it […]
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 […]
Matters of Revenue: Meta Abandons Australia’s Media Stable
It was praised to the heavens as a work of negotiated and practical genius when it was struck. The then Australian treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had […]
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), is […]
The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on ‘Night Falls’
The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are invited to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wary of Sinophobia: Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN Summit
It can take much bruising, much ridicule, and much castigation to eventually reach the plateau of wisdom. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who took office […]
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, they go missing, […]