Findings of Torture: The UN Rapporteur and Julian Assange
Another crude and sad chapter, yet more evidence of a system’s vengeance against its challengers. Julian Assange, like they dying Roman emperor Vespasian, may be […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Lies in Politics: Boris Johnson, the Law and the European Union
An enduring memory of the 2016 Brexit campaign, so marked by the foppish-haired blusterer, Boris Johnson, was the claim that the European Union was hungrily […]
A compulsive matter: Mandatory voting and its discontents
The session is on Radio National, Australia’s effort at highbrow airings on the wireless. And, to be fair, it often does not disappoint. But on […]
Authoritarian Spirits: Congress, the Espionage Act and punishing Wikileaks
The time was 1917, and for anyone keen to impress us about any liberal feelings on the part of President Woodrow Wilson, the following should […]
The end of Theresa May
The vultures of the British conservative party have gathered, and the individual who seemed to thrive in failure, to gain momentum in defeat, has finally […]
The Espionage Act and Julian Assange: The US Justice Department Expands Its Case
It seemed flimsy from the start, but the US Department of Justice is keen to get their man. What has certainly transpired of late is […]
Monsanto, Scientific Deception and Cancer
Money may not be able to buy the purest love, but it can buy the best, life-ending cancer. For Monsanto, giant of rule and misrule […]
Challenging Orthodoxies: Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Laws
It seems like a grand ploy of massive distraction. On the surface, the move by Alabama to place the most onerous restrictions on the granting […]
The Victory of Small Visions: Scott Morrison Retains Government
Australian politics since the 1990s has been marked by a dedicated loathing of the “vision thing”. For those keen to see policies lasting beyond the […]
Bob Hawke: Misunderstood in Memoriam
What a cheeky way of going. Death is rarely a matter of good timing but it can be part of a good career move or, […]
Fantasies of Humanity: The Christchurch Pledge and a Regulated Internet
It had to come. A massacre, broadcast in real time and then shared with viral automatism; the inevitable shock, and the counter from the authorities. […]
Modern Merchants of Death: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights
Arms manufacturers of old, and many of the current stable, did not care much where their products went. The profit incentive often came before the […]
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz: The US-Iran Standoff
Hegemons are never going to sound too sensible when they lock horns or joust in spats of childish anger. Power corrupts, not merely in terms […]
Cleaning out the Nutters: Paul Keating, China and Australia’s Security Establishment
Inimitable to a fault, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating had been fairly quiet on his party’s policies till an impromptu press intervention last week. […]
A Great Flushing Out: Social Media Footprints and Electioneering in Australia
It has been an uninspiring election, punctuated by occasional moments of madness on the part of various candidates. Their sin was to be incautious in […]