Muddled Interventions: Haiti, the UN and Resolution 2699
A country broken by constant foreign interventions, its tyrannical regimes propped up by the back brace of the United States (when it wasn’t intervening to […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Biden’s Bungles over Gaza
The main press stable was keen to see the scrappy benefits of the 31-hour visit to Israel by US President Joe Biden. On National Public […]
The Day Guterres Became Relevant
The relevance given to a UN Secretary-General is often judged by the degree of controversy caused. In history, the most relevant are usually targeted. Dag […]
Cultural Cover-Up: The Sydney Opera House Turns 50
Commemorative occasions are often draped in fatty platitudes. Within such platitudes lie excuses and apologies. People are celebrated after the fact, not for their faults […]
Rambo’s Pacific Peace Zone
There has always been something impressive, if slightly idiosyncratic, about political ideas emanating from Pacific states. In recent years, on the world’s largest body of […]
Fruitless Gestures: Victoria Bans the Nazi Salute
It took place with hardly any debate, though it interested some parliamentary members at the committee stage. The Australian state of Victoria now faces laws […]
A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in […]
Violence Against Human Animals: Images from the Israel-Hamas War
With the body count rising in this latest, and particularly bloody Israel-Hamas War, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has now been […]
Breaking Bread at the Terminus of Learning
Let this be a lesson to you students. You are now coming to the end of another semester, arbitrarily designated as having an even number […]
Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel
It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts. Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has […]
Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence: Hamas, Israel and the Use of Force
Shock and horror. But to and for whom? At 6.30 am on October 7, the State of Israel was certainly in shock. From the south, […]
Nuclear-Powered Fixations: The Trump-Pratt Disclosures
In April 2021, the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt had a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. According to an ABC News report, “Pratt […]
Modi’s Cricket Ploy: Hindutva as Twelfth Man
This week, the International Cricket Council’s One Day International tournament will commence in India. The man who will take centre stage during the occasion will […]
Dianne Feinstein: National Security State Diva
The tributes for the late Democratic Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, heaped up as word got out. Having served as San Francisco mayor and a […]
Flagging Support: Zelenskyy Loses Favour in Washington
Things did not go so well this time around. When the worn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned up banging on the doors of Washington’s powerful […]