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 […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
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, […]
Triumphant Down Under: Elbit Systems and the Australian Military
Deeds of substance, rather than words of forced concern, will always take precedence in the chronicles of history. Superficially, the Australian government has been edging […]
Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza
The starvation regime continues unabated as Israel continues its campaign in the Gaza Strip. One of the six provisional measures ordered by the International Court […]
Trussonomics at CPAC
The silly will make print and leave bursts of digital traces; the idiots will make history, if only in small print. One such figure is […]
Old Problems with the New: Reforming the UN Security Council
The end of the Second World War was a calamitous catalyst, laying the bricks and mortar for institutions that were always going to look weary, […]
A Copper’s Skewed Logic: Politicising Palestinian Visas
If only we could say that Peter Dutton, Australia’s federal opposition leader and curator of bigoted leanings, was unusual in assuming that granting humanitarian visas […]
Imperial Venality Defends Itself: Day Two of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian Assange, […]
Identifying Imperial Venality: Day One of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 20, it was clear that things were not going to be made easy for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who infuriated the US […]
Swiftie Nonsense Down Under
Gaza. Palestinians. Israel. Genocide. Taylor Swift? This odd cobbling of words is the extent celebrities make a mockery of serious conversation, even in such middle-brow […]
Border Paranoia in Fortress Australia
The imaginative faculties of standard Australian politicians retreat to some strange, deathly place on certain issues. In that wasteland, they are often unrecoverable. Like juveniles […]
Joe Biden: The Damnation of Age
He was sweet and well meaning, but he was old. He was hazy. His memory was poor. Doddering, confused, the self-proclaimed leader of the Free […]
Here Come the Steroid Games
To attribute weighty moral codes to athletes has always been a silly pastime of the judging classes and flesh admiring voyeurs. But sporting bodies, in […]
When Scott Morrison met Nemesis
There are few surprises regarding the final episode of Nemesis, the three-part account on how the Australian Liberal Party, in partnership with the dozy Nationals, […]