Imperial Protectionism: US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
What does a “foreign policy for the middle class” of the United States entail? President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is rather vague about this. […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Fighting White Elephants: The Tasmanian AFL Stadium Protest
Every now and then, the sharpened, dedicated means of halting a monstrous white elephant before its birth can work. The wise suddenly seem in charge, […]
The US Supreme Court Corruption Bonanza
When ProPublica’s investigation into links between Republican donor Harlan Crow and the US Supreme Court surfaced, there was a sense that dark waters lurked beneath […]
Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem
Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. […]
Aqueous Matters: Europe’s Water Crisis
Europe is joining a number of other regions on the planet in suffering a prolonged water crisis; and it is one that shows little sign […]
A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, […]
King Charles III: Policing the Republican Protests
In Britain, pageantry has always been a palliative and plaster for the dark and dismal. Be it in times of crisis, the chance to put […]
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster of Civilization’s End
It involved bringing out the irregular or peculiar from society’s peripheries – at least as popularly perceived at the time. Granted a national, broadcasting stage, […]
Scott Morrison and Australia’s Lobby Complex
The former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been somewhat of an absentee in the Federal seat of Cook. Since losing the May 2022 election, […]
Hypocritical Commemorations: World Press Freedom Day
Selected days for commemoration serve one fundamental purpose. Centrally, they acknowledge the forgotten or neglected, while proposing to do nothing about it. It’s the priest’s […]
Scandal in Tasmania: The Edifice Sports Complex Runs Amok
Profligate, a betrayal of public service, a misspending of state goods, a fiscal barbarism. By any estimation, recent efforts regarding sport in the small Australian […]
Rerunning Biden’s Blunderland
President Joseph Biden has done what many from his own party dreaded but dare not say. Last month, via a painful video, the aged Democrat […]
Scrapping Charles Darwin: Hindutva’s Anti-Scientific Maladies
Welcome the canons of pseudoscience. Open your arms to the dribbling, sponsored charlatans. According to a growing number of India’s top officialdom, teaching Charles Darwin’s […]
Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA and Julian Assange
However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison awaiting the torments of an […]
Australia: Outsourced to the US Military Establishment
It’s a very funny thing. In the US, the provision of services in such industries as security and intelligence is outsourced in a sprawling complex […]