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 […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
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 […]
Shutting Down in Trumpland
It is a political idiosyncrasy that most political systems avoid: the state, as if suffering a stroke, operating at only partial capacity, incapable of paying […]
Eyeing the Whitehouse: the Democratic Field
Not so much hunting season as declaratory season in US politics. The US presidential candidates from the Democratic side are making promises spiced with forced […]
Spy Theories and the White House: Donald Trump as Russian Agent
The level of absurdity in US politics has now reached such vertigo inducing levels as to render all manner of things permissible. Contact with the […]