Building for War: The US Imperium’s Top End Spend
The AUSMIN 2023 talks held between the US Secretaries of State and Defense and their Australian counterparts, confirmed the increasing, unaccountable militarisation of the Australian […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The Day Australian Sovereignty Died
If a date might be found when Australian sovereignty was extinguished by the emissaries of the US imperium, July 29, 2023 will be as good […]
AUSMIN and Assange: The Great Vassal Smackdown
It was there for all to see. Embarrassing, cloying, and bound make you cough up the remnants of your summit lunch, US Secretary of State […]
Barbie Pathologies: It’s All About a Doll
As the ancient Greeks reminded us, bone cold definitions as starting points are essential in any discussion. One current discussion, insignificant to posterity but amusing […]
The Taylor Swift Exploitation Machine
She doesn’t love you, she doesn’t care for you, and she doesn’t know you. But does her team pretend to, confecting an image of faux […]
Dotty Domains: The Pentagon’s Mali Typo Leak Affair
Fleet-footed agility and sharp thinking rarely characterise the plodding bureaucrat. An argument can be made that different attributes are prized: cherished incompetence, spells of inattentiveness, […]
Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort
“God really must love Philip Morris.” (John Safran, Haaretz, Nov. 29, 2021). John Safran is a scamp, but in the finest tradition of investigative ones. […]
Congressional Concerns: Stalling Nuclear Submarines for Australia
Any security arrangement with too many variables and multiple contingencies, risks stuttering and keeling over. Critical delays might be suffered, attributable to a number of […]
The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game
While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound […]
Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modi’s US Visit
Again, he was at it, that charming show on two legs, playful and coy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been burning the charismatic fuel […]
Loathsome Amiability: Why Watching Utopia Hurts
Let’s be frank: watching Utopia hurts. It involves stinging your eyeballs, tearing your hair, and taking yourself to the ledge of a skyscraper to call […]
The BBC Falls for Murdoch’s Bait
It should be called for what it is. The recent apoplectic, lurid coverage of what was, at best, a matter for a corporation’s human resources […]
Dumping Doubts: Releasing Fukushima’s Waste Water
Nothing said from the nuclear industry can or should be taken for face value. Be it in terms of safety, or correcting defects or righting […]
An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the […]
The Robodebt Rogues Gallery
If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australia’s cruel, inept […]