Leaking for Change: ASIO, Jakarta, and Australia’s Jerusalem Problem
Politics can, after a time, becomes a myopic exercise of expedient measures and desperate hope. Politics, raw and crude, is at its best at points […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Embassy Disappearances: Jamal Khashoggi and the Foreign Policy Web
“Do this outside. You will put me into trouble” (Mohammad al-Otaibi, Saudi consul, to Saudi agents, Istanbul, October 2, 2018). It smells, but anything wedged […]
DNA in Trumpland: Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Dance
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made a fundamental error in chasing the coattails of DNA provenance as a response to the jibes of US President Donald […]
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes” (President Andrew Jackson, Washington, […]
Evacuating Nauru: Médecins Sans Frontières and Australia’s Refugee Dilemma
It is an organisation not without its problems. Conceived in the heat of idealism, and promoted as the vanguard of medical rescue and human rights […]
Barely Breathing: May’s Gasping Premiership
The Boris Johnson storm, beating away at the British Prime Minister’s doors with an ancient fury, has been stayed for the moment in the wake […]
Australian Complicity: Nauru and Silencing Journalism
Journalism is getting something of a battering in Australia. At the parliamentary level, laws have passed that would be inimical to any tradition versed in […]
Limiting Israel: Russia Deploys the S-300 to Syria
Relations between Russia and Israel have been those of an estranged couple punctuated by occasional breakouts of tense understanding. As with other such couples, a […]
Nostalgia and Sunshine: Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black
This effort seems to be a bit of camping out on the part of director Bruce Beresford, whose list of cinematic achievements include Driving Miss […]
Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange’s Fate
The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere – for the moment. […]
Augmenting Brains: Google Turns Twenty
“Eventually you’ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you an answer.” (Larry Page, co-founder of Google). […]
Feeding Militarism: The US Imperial Consensus
The US military industrial complex reigns like a ravenous ruler in search of new funding prospects. It has done well this year, with the Trump […]
Casting Kavanaugh: The Trump Supreme Court Drama
Stage set Washington. Object: adulterating power. The arm of government: the judiciary. That particular group of high ranking paladins remains up in the air as […]
The Pathology of Mass Surveillance: The UK, Bulk Interception and the European Court of Human Rights
It’s fitting that the same society that produced George Orwell with his warnings of a totalitarian dystopia stacked with all-prying monitors, surveillance and paranoia should […]
Needled Strawberries: Food Terrorism Down Under
There is something peculiar doing the rounds in Australian food circles. The land down under, considered something of a nirvana of fruit and vegetable production […]