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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark

About Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed at @bkampmark.

Steve Bannon at Oxford

November 28, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Steve Bannon. The Oxford Union. A university that has been the breeding, sculpting and minting ground for British prime ministers for centuries and the Establishment. […]

Fanciful Notions: European Armies, Trump and NATO

November 26, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The idea of a standing European army, one dedicated to the specific needs of Europe as opposed to being an annex of another power is […]

Coming Up Against Yellow Vests: Emmanuel Macron’s Fuel Problem

November 25, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Governments and ruling regimes tend to face revolution in the face of harsh hikes in prices. Margaret Thatcher’s rule in Britain was rocked by the […]

Bringing God and Finding Death: A Christian Missionary on North Sentinel Island

November 23, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 64

Curiosity for the undiscovered last tribe, that tantalising moment when eyes are cast upon the previously unseen, remains the anthropological Holy Grail. But to do […]

Forgetting Jamal Khashoggi: Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia and Brute Realism

November 22, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

“I never thought I’d see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.” Senator […]

Big Mouthed Blue-Eyes: Frank Sinatra in Australia

November 21, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

The demigods are rarely tempered, and Frank Sinatra, who considered himself one, along with a horde of adulating fans, was one who rarely faced the […]

Unnecessary Fussing: China, the United States and APEC

November 20, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

The parents on the global stage of power are bickering and now, such entertainingly distracting forums as APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum) are left […]

Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange

November 19, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 23

Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information. Those who do […]

The Jerusalem Tangle: ScoMo’s Recognition Policy Stumbles

November 16, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 16

Jerusalem, deemed a holy city, and seen as trade item, bargaining chip and bartering tool over the centuries. Sought by the major faiths, despoiled at […]

The Disgruntled Former Prime Minister

November 15, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The disgruntled former prime minister is a rather large, and growing club, on the Australian scene. The country has become known for its killing seasons, […]

Convenient Demonologies: Stopping Migrant Caravans

November 13, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

President Donald J. Trump has been engaged with berating human caravans, a spectacle that might have been odd in another era. At first instance, it […]

Remembering the Peace Makers: What the Armistice Commemorations Forgot

November 12, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Those in the war industry and the business of commemorating the dead have little time for peace, even as they supposedly celebrate it. For them, […]

Concepts of Nonsense: Australian Soft Power

November 12, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Soft power was always a term best suited for eunuchs. It relies on persuasion, counsel and an air of seduction. It does not imply actual […]

Politicised Victimhood: Ukraine’s Holodomor, Genocide and Intent

November 9, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

The impression hits you immediately. An opening of an exhibition held to commemorate survivors and families of one of the darker atrocities of human experiments; […]

Mid-Term Divisions: The Trump Take

November 9, 2018 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

President Donald J. Trump has a special, strained take on the world. Defeat is simply victory viewed in slanted terms. Victory for the other side […]

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