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 […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
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 […]
Julian Assange and Albanese’s Intervention
The unflinching US effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act of 1917, […]
Tuvalu, Climate Change and the Metaverse
When lost to climatic disaster and environmental turbulence, where does a whole nation go? History speaks about movements of people, whether induced by human agency […]
Football Capitulates at Qatar
It did not take much. The initial promises of protest from a number of footballers and their teams at the Qatar FIFA World Cup were […]
Silicon Valley Fake: Elizabeth Holmes and the Fraudster’s Motivation
It has been one noisy time for the paladins of big tech. Jobs have been shed by the thousands at Meta, Amazon, and Twitter; FTX, […]
Ginger Sufferings: Gianni Infantino’s Sportswashing Performance
Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, the most famous 52-year-old brat of the world football federation, has not been much in the news of late. Such […]
Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers and Getting Assange
Poor, silly, protuberant Mike Pompeo. The stocky, irritated former CIA director and former Secretary of State is rather upset that those who worked under him […]
Privacy Woes: Google’s “Location History” Settlement
It all speaks to scale: the attorneys general of 40 states within the US clubbing together to charge Google for misleading users. On this occasion, […]
Saudi Blood Money, Golf and Adelaide
Peter Malinauskas, the South Australian Premier, has been the latest convert to the LIV Golf circuit, showing little to no awareness about where the lion’s […]
The Secret Wars of the US Imperium
To get to where they are, imperial powers will deceive, dissimulate and distort. The US imperium, that most awesome of devilish powers, has tentacled itself […]
Micronations: Eccentric and Unthreatening
A trolley load of books, chapters and treatises have been written on the subject of sovereignty. Usually, the concept entails control and power, the latter […]
Extradition Clouds: The Duggan Case and the Chinese Angle
Soon, the US government may be making waves regarding another extradition request for a figure connected with that oft exaggerated notion of national security. While […]
Rishi Sunak: A Thatcherite in Downing Street
They are falling like ninepins, and the Tories have now given the weary people of Britain yet another prime minister. And what a catch: stupendously […]