Constitutional Violations: Julian Assange, Privacy and the CIA
As a private citizen, the options for suing an intelligence agency are few and far between. The US Central Intelligence Agency, as with other members […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
A Growing Butcher’s Bill: Israel’s War Spending
The Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron is worried. He is keeping an eye on the ballooning costs of his country’s war against Gaza and […]
Red Sea Deployments: Canberra Says No
The failure of the United States to convince the Australian government to send one vessel to aid coalition efforts to deter Houthi disruption of international […]
Day X Marks the Calendar: Julian Assange’s ‘Final’ Appeal
Julian Assange’s wife, Stella, is rarely one to be cryptic. “Day X is here,” she posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter. For those […]
A Merry AUKUS Surprise, Western Australia!
The secretive Australian government just cannot help itself. Clamouring and hectoring of other countries and their secret arrangements (who can forget the criticism of the […]
Cardinal Crimes: Absolute Rule and Fleecing the Holy See
Like a bank with branches everywhere, the Catholic Church will go after its own when circumstances permit, wherever they are. In other instances, it will […]
False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and […]
Flirting With Nuclear Energy Down Under
It was a policy that was bound to send a shiver through the policymaking community. The issue of nuclear energy in Australia has always been […]
A Flawed and Dangerous Presence: US Troops in Syria
Despite a focus on boxing China in the Indo-Pacific, US involvement in the Middle East continues to be widespread and problematic. While Israel is given […]
Censoring Israeli Violence: Western Media Outlets Capitulate
The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one. In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed. Historical inconveniences are filed and rendered […]
The View from Washington: Let the Killing in Gaza Continue
Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of […]
Accidents of Eccentricity: Israel’s Pacific Hold
Cunning, subtle, understated. Israeli policy in the Pacific has seen United Nations votes cast in its favour, the foreign policies of certain countries adjusted, and […]
Actuarial Justice: Released Refugees and Secondary Punishment
In most instances, the justice system of a liberal democracy presumes absence of arbitrary and cruel treatment by the State. Punishment, when levelled, is finite. […]
COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat
The sequence of COP meetings, ostensibly a United Nations forum to discuss dramatic climate change measures in the face of galloping emissions, has now been […]
Refreshing the Camelot School: Kennedy Hagiography at Sixty
Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils […]