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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark

About Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed at @bkampmark.

Cutting Ties: The West, Ukraine, and the Russian Academy

March 8, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 53

Working with Russian academics and institutions. The attack upon Ukraine by Russia. These are two features playing out heavily in university discussions. As typifies such […]

Advertising Gimmicks: Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarines

March 7, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

Never trust anything that comes out of a politician’s mouth in an election year. Pledges are made to be broken; promises are made to seduce, […]

The Ukraine War and the “Good” Refugee

March 4, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

“These people are not people we are used to… these people are Europeans.” (Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Associated Press, March 1, 2022). In the […]

The “She’ll Be Right, Mate” Syndrome: Australia’s Doomed Koalas

March 1, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

In a country expert in killing off mammal species at a rate exceeding that of others (to be fair, there are so many more to […]

Antarctica: Where Realpolitik and Science Meet

February 25, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

A frozen continent. Another potential frontier for conflict and competition. Antarctica is a part of the world were realpolitician meets scientist; the desire for finding […]

Bipartisan Consensus as Myth: The Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics

February 24, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

A few dragons have been breathing fire of late, and these need to be slayed. One is the notion that Australia has had some miraculous […]

Tapping Fortress Australia: Priti Patel’s Border Force Review

February 19, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

When in opposition, Alexander Downer, destined to become Australia’s longest serving foreign minister in the conservative government of John Howard, was easy to savage. The […]

Failure in Moscow: Liz Truss loses Britannia’s Way

February 17, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Incompetent politicians and diplomats are on the level with ill-prepared generals fighting current wars with dated methods. They err, they stumble, and they may well […]

Compulsory Voting and its Antipodean ills

February 15, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 20

Time and time again, we are told that making people vote improves representation and representativeness. Herding them on pain of penalty will somehow keep politics […]

Blinken Foreign Policy

February 14, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

It must be a sure handicap to be saddled with such a name when piloting a large government department, but US Secretary of State Antony […]

The Day the Ninth Life Ended: Reflections on a Passing Cat

February 13, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 69

She could be such a silent ballerina of a butcher, a soft padded graceful skimmer across grass and weeds. It is unclear how many birds, […]

Bickering Gatekeepers: The ‘Endeavour’ Spat

February 10, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

They found it. Or so we can surmise from the confident words of the Australian National Maritime Museum. The Endeavour is a ship that will […]

Great Barrier Reef Fantasies: The Morrison Government’s Electoral Ploy

February 8, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

There are some things that strain credulity. There are the dubious accounts of virgin births. There are the resolute flat earth theorists and denialists of […]

Hemispheric Gangsterism: The US Embargo Against Cuba Turns 60

February 6, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It all seems worn, part of an aspic approach to foreign policy. But US President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old, and lingering […]

Special Privileges: Charlotte Bellis, Fortress New Zealand and the Taliban

February 2, 2022 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Not wishing to be left out from the brutal closed border system that has characterised COVID-19 policy in Australia, New Zealand has also been every […]

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