Turning Screws: China’s Australian Coal Ban
Overly reliant economies are dangerously fragile things. As it takes two parties, often more, to play the game, the absence of interest, or its withdrawal […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The Candidate Rides Again: The Bernie Sanders Re-Run
He could not stay away, and few could blame him. Such political tendencies are nerves, conditions, diseases: eventually, we have to succumb to them. Bernie […]
The Most Selfish of Virtues: Alan Bennett’s ‘Lady in the Van’
It does seem specific. A middle-class concern centred on a man and an elderly woman, a sort of surrogate, irritating mother type of indulgent wisdom […]
Size Matters: The Demise of the A380
The aircraft business has always been a dear affair. More than other forms of transport, it remains susceptible to oscillating costs (materials, fuel), ever at […]
Death by Video: Morrison Combats Refugees by Film
Caught in the backwater of the world’s existence, Australia struggles for relevance in various ways. It might show itself a leader in creating a sovereign […]
Refugees as Business: The Paladin Group Contract
Despair breeds profits; disturbances supply opportunity. The genius and venal nature of human nature will always see a possible buck from an impossibly cruel situation. […]
Sickness and Paranoia: The Morrison Government’s Refugee Problem
The passage of amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) by the Australian House of Representatives and the Senate this week was less a case […]
Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet
Such measures were always going to come on the heels, and heavily so, of the Utopians. Where there is Internet Utopia, Dystopia follows with dedicated […]
Football, Refugee Rights and Hakeem al-Araibi
“Al-Araibi’s case has become a crucial test of world football’s commitment to human rights.” So observed the director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights […]
Unity and Exceptionalism: Trump’s State of Union Flurries
“Trump is hated by everyone,” comes one unnamed former official in an account to Vanity Fair, one supposedly sourced after the President’s State of the […]
Meeting in Moscow: The Taliban Meets the Afghan Opposition
It had the semblance of a play lacking key actors. They were deemed the difficult ones, and a decision was made to go through with […]
Sharp Manias: Knife Crime in London
London. A bleak London assailed by daily news about Brexit negotiation, prospects of food shortages and higher prices in the event of a no-deal with […]
The Monitoring Game: China’s Artificial Intelligence Push
It’s all keen and mean on the artificial intelligence (AI) front in China, which is now vying with the United States as the top dog […]
“Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter”: Censorship Tendencies in Social Media
It is all a rather sorry tale. Molly Russell, another teenager gorged on social media content, sharing and darkly revelling, took her own life in […]
Everybody Else’s Business: Coup Fever in Venezuela
This could have been seen as audacious. Instead, it had the smell of a not so well concealed sponsorship, the backing of a meaty foreign […]