Agreed Rules, COP24 and Climate Change Protest
The world, if it goes off in a burn, will do so courtesy of the rules – or their elastic interpretation. It was a fine […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Tumblr and the Cult of the Safe
Be aware of the titty. Or pudenda. Or anything else suggesting a copulative angle familiar to most adults with a decent constituency of desire. The […]
May Days in Britain
It is hard to envisage sympathy for a person who made a name as a home secretary (prisons, detentions, security and such) taking the mast […]
Having it All Ways: Scott Morrison’s Jerusalem “Compromise”
The pieces were already put in place during the Wentworth federal by-election, a hopeless, needless gambit that reduced the Coalition government’s majority whilst giving the […]
The Kosovo Blunder: Moves Towards a Standing Army
There never is a time not to worry in the Balkans. The next conflict always seems to be peering around the corner with a malicious […]
Be Offensive and Be Damned: The Cases of Peter Ridd and Tim Anderson
It has been an ordinary year for universities in Australia. While the National Tertiary Education Union pats itself on the back for supposedly advancing the […]
William Blum: Anti-Imperial Advocate
In the incessant self-praise of the US imperial project, kept safe in a state of permanently enforced amnesia, occasional writings prod and puncture. Mark Twain […]
Seventy Years of Aspiration: Rights Charters and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It was a gathering of activists masquerading as deep thinkers. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate seven decades of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one devised […]
Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Immemorial Divisions
“Of course there’s one Spain. If there was another, we’d all be in that one.” (Joke on Franco’s Spain, in LondonReview of Books, 37, July, […]
The Security Derangement Complex: Technology Companies and Australia’s Anti-Encryption Law
Australia is being seen as a test case. How does a liberal democracy affirm the destruction of private, encrypted communications? In 2015, China demonstrated what […]
The Bomb that Did Not Detonate: Julian Assange, Manafort and The Guardian
“This is going to be one of the most infamous news disasters since Stern published the ‘Hitler Diaries.’” (WikiLeaks, Twitter, Nov 27, 2018). Those at […]
In Contempt of Parliament: The Legal Advice of Brexit
It is attrition, suffocation and contortion. While Theresa May’s Brexit program, weak, compromising and cobbled as it is, endures that bit longer, her opponents from […]
Lying About Age: The Legal Efforts of Emile Ratelband
Oscar Wilde famously warned that one should never trust a woman who revealed her true age; anyone so inclined to do so was bound to […]
George H.W. Bush: Cold War Ends and New World Orders
The death of certain political figures, notably those of a vast imperium, is bound to provoke less criticism or critical insight than soul searching pursuits. […]
Journey into Obsolescence: The Adani Carmichael Project
The Carmichael mine being pursued in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland is a dinosaur before its creation. On paper, it is hefty – to […]