Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s Mission for Assange
An odder political bunch you could not find, at least when it comes to pursuing a single goal. Given that the goal is the release […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Criminalising Activism: Woodside, Protest and Climate Change
On August 1, protesters against the Burrup Hub expansion in Western Australia, a project of one of Australia’s most ruthless fossil fuel companies, took to […]
Weasel Words in Aviation: Protecting the Flying Kangaroo
Ambrose Bierce, whose cynicism supplies a hygienic cold wash, suggested that politics was always a matter of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. It […]
Defriending Canada: Natural Disasters and Facebook’s Information Scrub
Australia experienced this in February 2021. Facebook had gotten nastily stroppy, wishing to dictate public policy to the Commonwealth government. To teach Canberra mandarins a […]
A Killing Design: Osprey Fatalities in the Top End
In 2022, the US Army selected Bell Textron’s tiltrotor V280 as its Black Hawk replacement. This caused more than a few eyebrows to rise in […]
Whitewashing Down Under: The Vietnam War Fifty Years On
The Vietnam War tormented and tore the societies who saw fit to participate in it. It defined a generation culturally and politically in terms creative […]
Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings
We know what the regime is like. Starving a country, bombing its hospitals and strafing its schools has been minor fare for the Kingdom of […]
The Profiteering Motive
Times of crisis can be glorious for some. The Great Depression bred its share of wealthy profiteers. The First and Second World Wars fostered many […]
Looting the Looters: Theft at the British Museum
What happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation […]
Cutting Climate Change Research: Cuts at the Australian Antarctic Division
Australia’s funding priorities have been utterly muddled of late. At the Commonwealth level, there is cash to be found in every conceivable place to support […]
Climate Change Litigation: The Montana Precedent
Climate change litigation is falling into pressing fashion. In Australia, the 2021 case of Sharma, despite eventually failing before three judges in the Federal Court […]
The Oppenheimer Imperative: Normalising Atomic Terror
The atomic bomb created the conditions of contingent catastrophe, forever placing the world on the precipice of existential doom. But in doing so, it created […]
Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair and Scholz’s Pate
It was a shallow affair. Reputed to have exceptionally poor hairdo, the figure who became one of Europe’s, and indeed one of the globe’s most […]
Assange be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, […]
Calf Days and Rationed Broadcasting: The Women’s World Cup
FIFA is a funny organisation. Mafia-run, obscenely corrupt, it governs the most popular game on the planet with a shameless, muscular vigour that must make […]