Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant’s The Great Replacement
A censorious and censoring attitude has engulfed responses to the mental airings of the Christchurch shooter. Material in connection with Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Saving the Planet One Child at a Time: Children, School Strikes and Global Climate Action
Children’s crusades do not necessarily end well. During the years of armed missions to the Holy Land, when Jerusalem meant something to the sacredly inclined […]
The Dangers of Values: Brenton Tarrant, Fraser Anning and the Christchurch Shootings
The argument that the Christchurch shooter, suspect Brenton Tarrant, or the views of Australia’s Senator Fraser Anning, seemingly holding a lone torch, are somehow not […]
Death in New Zealand: The Christchurch Shootings
Five weapons were said to have been used, all inscribed with symbols, numbers and insignia. The individual charged with the shootings at two Christchurch mosques […]
Lobbies and Belated Groundings: Boeing’s 737 Max 8
Lobbies, powerful interests and financial matters are usually the first things that come to mind when the aircraft industry is considered. Safety, while deemed of […]
Lies in the Branding: Justin Trudeau’s Implosion
“Trudeau came out and asked for strong women, and he got them.” (Michelle Rempel, Conservative Party MP, The Atlantic, Mar 12, 2019). The gods have […]
Publicised Cruelty: Scott Morrison Visits Christmas Island
His visit struck a sour note. The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison was making an effort to show he cared: about those intangible things called […]
Grand Jury Efforts: Jailing Chelsea Manning
“I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.” So explained Chelsea Manning in justifying her refusal to answer questions and comply with […]
A Fancy Hypocrisy: China, Australia and Coal Mania
Fear them for their technology; fear them for their ideology and their authoritarianism. But embrace interference and involvement in the economy if it involves coal. […]
The Cardinal Can Do No Wrong: George Pell’s Defenders
The powerful have always had defenders. Power seeps into the system, corrupts, controls and, ultimately, assumes an authority that does wonders to destroy an appraisal […]
Militarised Conservation: Paramilitary Rangers and the WWF
Think charity, think vulnerability and its endless well of opportunistic exploitation. Over the years, international charity organisations have been found with employees keen to take […]
British Labour’s Fractious Jaunt: The Politics of the Independent Group
They could not hold on. A small – and in the scheme of things negligible group – split from the British Labour mothership last month […]
Walkout in Hanoi: The Second Trump-Kim Summit
“Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times.” That was US President Donald Trump’s remark about something he has been doing […]
The Chagos Islands Case, WikiLeaks and Justice
Let this be a lesson to its detractors, doubters and stuff shirts of the secrecy establishment: the documents sourced from WikiLeaks can have tangible, having […]
The Showbiz of Conservation: PETA, Google and Steve Irwin
The world of conservation has thrown up various voices of tenacity. There was Aldo Leopold, a vital figure behind establishing the first wilderness area of […]