Concepts of Nonsense: Australian Soft Power
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 […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Politicised Victimhood: Ukraine’s Holodomor, Genocide and Intent
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
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 […]
Shark Attack: Fearing Monsters in the Whitsundays
It begins with a gruesome account: a tourist, paddle-boarding and swimming in an idyllic setting baked by sun – in this case, Cid Harbour in […]
Masquerading Reforms: The Tricks of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
The surgical dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi has sent the military establishments of several countries into a tizz. Arms manufacturers are wondering whether this is an […]
Closing Loopholes: Taxing the Digital Giants
The treasurers of various countries seem to be stumbling over each other in the effort, but taxing the digital behemoths has become something of an […]
Losing Users: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Problems
His detractors and enemies have been waiting some time for this, but it must have given them moments of mild cheer. Facebook, the all-gazing, accumulating […]
Moving Right in Brazil: The Rise of Jair Bolsonaro
Moving left has been a Brazilian political tendency for some time, a tendency affirmed through the 1990s and 2000s with the presidential administrations of Fernando […]
Angela Merkel’s Last Days
Cultural compilations such as James Frazer’s The Golden Bough are rich with these accounts: the high priest or leader of a tribe, whose lengthy tenure […]
Julian Assange, Ecuador and the Dangers of Farce
This is the next stage of the Julian Assange chronicles: from the summit of information disclosures and meddlesome revelations on classified state matters, the Australian […]
The Arms Behind the Invictus Games
The origins of the Invictus Games (“For our Wounded Warriors,” goes the slogan) lies in war. Wars that crippled and caused depression and despair. The […]
The Saudi Arabian Model: Blueprints for Murder and Purchasing Arms
It reads like a swaying narrative of retreat. A man’s body is subjected to a gruesome anatomical fate, his parts separated by a specially appointed […]
Denials Down Under: Climate Change and Health
Richard Horton’s note in an October 2015 issue of The Lancet was cautiously optimistic. It described the launch of Doctors for Climate Change Action, led […]
Ditching Nuclear Treaties: Trump Withdraws from the INF
President Donald J. Trump has made it his signature move to repudiate the signatures of others, and the latest, promised evacuation from the old US-Soviet […]
Wentworth Blues: Another Nail in the Scomo Coffin
A sign of desperation before the firing squad is jitteriness and the desperate sense that history needs revision. You were not the one responsible for […]