The Ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN High Seas Treaty
Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer than […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
War over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang of Five
Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a country that […]
Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp
The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country […]
India’s Education Market: The Next Neo-Colonial Frontier
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that […]
Doing Washington’s Bidding: Australia’s Treatment of Daniel Duggan
The increasingly shabby treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again shown that […]
Avalon Militarism
The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in its effects. It led to the cancellation, and postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It spared public […]
Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl
Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out, […]
Energy Wars: Outing the Nord Stream Saboteurs
When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of […]
Irresponsible Politics: Australia’s B-52 Nuclear Weapons Problem
It is not farfetched to make the point that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons. […]
Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance
Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General […]
ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be […]
Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies
Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for bombs […]
Ukraine’s Tank Problem
It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks […]
Doltish Ways: Biden’s Documents Problem
Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His electoral victory was […]
A Picture of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime
International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound […]