Joining the War Club: Australia’s HIMARS Purchase
Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Sportswashed: Ronaldo heads to Saudi Arabia
It just keeps getting darker and darker. For the professionally ignorant, things are only getting better. With one of history’s great events of sportswashing concluded […]
Metaphors of Belligerence: Wars by and against Nature
Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. Aristotle, Poetics (1457b) It all seemed familiar. Anthropomorphised Mother Nature in vengeful […]
Vivienne Westwood: Activism and the Godmother of Punk
There was the punk scene, Malcolm McLaren, their racy clothes shop at 430 King’s Road that started out as Let it Rock, the creation of […]
George Santos: The Perfect Résumé
The true résumé is rarely honest. The entire document is based on a stream of twisting embellishments, fanciful achievements, and, in some cases, pure fiction. […]
Country for Bad Dreams: Vandalism on the Nullarbor Plain
“This is quite shocking,” declared South Australia’s Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher. “These caves are some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation […]
Christmas Jottings from North Queensland
A ridiculous spectacle: Christmas in North Queensland, an event held in a land so prehistoric it makes a mockery of its human inhabitants. Cartoons and […]
Suing Meta in Kenya
Africa has been a continent exploited since the European scramble carved it out in lines of a draughtsman’s crude design. Its resources have been pilfered; […]
The Year of the Botched Execution
There was never anything going for it, except political mileage and the desire for crude retribution. The putting to death of another human being by […]
Corrupting the European Parliament: Qatar’s Sports Diplomacy
How utterly fitting that it should happen at this time. The Qatar FIFA World Cup is coming to a close, a tournament nakedly bought by […]
Basketball, Viktor Bout and Troubling Exchanges
Prison exchanges and swaps are never entirely satisfactory affairs. The appropriate measure in such cases is the degree of dissatisfaction that arises from them. In […]
The US Imperium Garrisons Australia
On December 6, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister and […]
Baguette Listings: Why Food is Politics
On November 30, the French baguette was formally added to the United Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The bureaucrats had finally gotten hold of a […]
The Raider Spirit: The Unveiling of the B-21
The US military industrial complex has made news with another eye-wateringly expensive product, a near totemic tribute to waste in a time of crisis. The […]
Gallic Rebuke: France and the US Rules-based Order
Gérard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the […]