Executive Donkeys and War Powers Reform
The decision to go to war should be as burdensome as possible. The more impediments to such folly, the better. Such a state of affairs […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Turning Tides: The US Congress and Julian Assange
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” (I.F. Stone). The US Congress and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, […]
Sparing the Athletes: Revising the Russia-Belarus Sporting Ban
Collateral damage? Deserving and worthy of their punishment? The exclusion and banishment of Russian and Belarusian athletes has become the acceptable prejudice of many governments […]
Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange
The sham that is the Assange affair, a scandal of monumental proportions connived in by the AUKUS powers, shows no signs of abating. Prior to […]
A Hazardous Decision: Supplying Ukraine with Depleted Uranium Shells
Should they be taking them? Ukraine is desperate for any bit of warring materiel its armed forces can lay their hands on, but depleted uranium […]
AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and Growing Dissent
It was a sight to behold and took the wind out of the bellicose sails of the AUKUS cheer squad. Here, at the National Press […]
Narendra Modi’s Cricket Coup
What a coup. Nakedly amoral but utterly self-serving in its saccharine minted glory. India’s showman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who otherwise appears to have clerkish, […]
Imperial Visits: US Emissaries in the Pacific
For some time, Washington has been losing its spunk in the Pacific. When it comes to the Pacific Islands, a number have not fallen – […]
From Balloons to AUKUS: The War Drive Against China
When will this hate-filled nonsense stop? Surveillance balloons treated like evocations of Satan and his card-carrying followers; other innumerable unidentified phenomena that, nonetheless, remain attributable […]
Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On
The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble […]
Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem
When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and […]
Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another […]
The Warring Peace: The AUKUS Submarine Announcement
History is filled with failed planners and plans, threats thought of that did not eventuate, and threats unthought of that found their way into the […]
Disastrous Harvest: Silicon Valley Bank and the Anti-Regulation Bank Lobby
Before the financial collapse come the aggressive anti-regulation lobbyists. These are often of the same ilk: loathing anything resembling oversight, restriction, reporting and monitoring. They […]
Branding the Acceptable: Battling Cancel Culture at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Writing festivals are often tired, stilted affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers’ Week did not promise to be that run-of-the-mill gathering of yawn-inducing, life draining […]