The Major Questions Doctrine: The US Supreme Court Blunts the EPA
The US Supreme Court has been frantically busy of late, striking down law and legislation with an almost crazed, ideological enthusiasm. Gun laws have been […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension
American exceptionalism can be a dreary thing, and no more so than each time a US president promotes the country’s imperial credentials and continued prowess. […]
The brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India
It looks all too eerily similar as a method: the expulsion of individuals from their home, the demolition of said home and the punishing of […]
‘Top Gun: Maverick’: The Pentagon Recruitment Drive
Hollywood, like the US press, has not been spared the influential hand of government. Under the mask of various projects, the defence establishment has sought […]
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup
A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest […]
Predictable Monstrosities: Priti Patel Approves Assange’s Extradition
The only shock about the UK Home Secretary’s decision regarding Julian Assange was that it did not come sooner. In April, Chief Magistrate Senior District […]
Julian Assange in Ithaka
“Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for.” (P. Cavafy, trans. Edmund Keeley.) John Shipton, despite his size, glides with […]
Weapons of Faith: The Arming of American Schools
The United States remains a country of tenacious faith. The nature of that faith stretches from the digital pulpits of Silicon Valley, where cool technology […]
Fighting the First UK-Rwandan Refugee Flight
June 10 bore witness to a valiant effort on the part of refugee groups and a trade union to stop what promises to be the […]
A Spanish Court Calls: Mike Pompeo, We Want You
On June 3, Judge Santiago Pedraz of Spain’s national court, the Audienca Nacional, issued a summons for former CIA director and US Secretary of State […]
Dear Times and Costly Cricket: Australia’s Sri Lankan Tour
For a country experiencing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, the picture of a touring team pampered and fussed over might cause […]
Platinum Jubilees and Republican Questions
The platinum jubilee will bore and cause some to yawn. It might certainly agitate the republican spleen in the fourteen countries where Queen Elizabeth II […]
New Brooms, Old Stories: The Australian Labor Party and Julian Assange
After having a few lunches with Australia’s then opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, John Shipton felt reason to be confident. Albanese had promised Assange’s father that […]
Election Gambit: Australia, Sri Lanka and Politicising Asylum
When it comes to the tawdry, hideous business of politicising the right to asylum, and the refugees who arise from it, no country does it […]
Reactionary Succession: Peter Dutton, Australia’s New Opposition Leader
The devastation wrought on Australia’s Coalition government on May 21 by the electorate had a stunning, cleansing effect. Previously inconceivable scenarios were played out in […]