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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark

About Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed at @bkampmark.

Bypassing Parliament: Westminster, the Royal Prerogative and Bombing Yemen

January 16, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

There is something distinctly revolting and authoritarian about the royal prerogative. It reeks of clandestine assumption, unwarranted self-confidence and, most of all, a blithe indifference […]

Israel’s argument at The Hague: We are Incapable of Genocide

January 15, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 13

Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility. In a famous cabinet meeting […]

Futile and Dangerous: Bombing Yemen in the Name of Shipping

January 13, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

What a show. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout […]

Tall Tales and Murderous Restraint: Blinken on Gaza and Israel

January 11, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 13

The role of the US State Department regarding Israel’s continued obliteration of Gaza is becoming increasingly clear. As the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces […]

Holstering a Career: Wayne LaPierre Resigns from the NRA Executive

January 9, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The now departed chief executive of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) should know. Wayne LaPierre’s time […]

Circle of Secrecy: The Iraq War’s Missing Cabinet Documents

January 7, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

They are unlikely to be revelatory, will shatter no myths, nor disprove any assumptions. Cabinet documents exist to merely show that a political clique – […]

Funding the Imperium: Australia Subsidises US Nuclear Submarines

January 5, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 16

AUKUS, the trilateral pact between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, was a steal for all except one of the partners. Australia, given […]

Killing Australians in Lebanon: Selected Targets; Selective Morality

January 4, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

The killing of an Australian-Lebanese national Ibrahim Bazzi, his Lebanese wife Shorouq Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi by the Israeli Defence Forces in a […]

The Economic Incentive: Blocking Israel’s Supply Chain

January 2, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 33

If demography is destiny, as Auguste Comte tells us, then economics must be current, pinching reality. The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement […]

Criminal Assumptions: The Howard Cabinet and Invading Iraq

January 1, 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 13

When war criminals can daub canvasses in blithe safety, rake in millions of dollars in after dinner speeches and bore governments to death with their […]

Genocidal Tremors: Taking Israel to the International Court of Justice

December 31, 2023 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Litigating against countries is the stuff of esoteric delight for international lawyers. Such matters become yet more complex when it comes to claims of genocide […]

Amoral Compass: Palantir and its Quest to Remake the World

December 29, 2023 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

Finance analysts free of moral scruple can point to Palantir with relish and note that 2023 was a fairly rewarding year for it. The company, […]

Constitutional Violations: Julian Assange, Privacy and the CIA

December 28, 2023 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

As a private citizen, the options for suing an intelligence agency are few and far between. The US Central Intelligence Agency, as with other members […]

A Growing Butcher’s Bill: Israel’s War Spending

December 27, 2023 Dr Binoy Kampmark 19

The Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron is worried. He is keeping an eye on the ballooning costs of his country’s war against Gaza and […]

Red Sea Deployments: Canberra Says No

December 26, 2023 Dr Binoy Kampmark 11

The failure of the United States to convince the Australian government to send one vessel to aid coalition efforts to deter Houthi disruption of international […]

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