Covid Testing Rackets and Flying Again
The young boy of seven or so was kissing a toy doll affixed with an alarmed face. The doll, no doubt of full Chinese make, […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Jailing Former Immigration Ministers: Denmark’s Inger Støjberg
It’s not the sort of thing you encounter regularly. A member of a government cabinet, responsible for arguably one of the country’s most important portfolios, […]
How to Chill Free Speech: Defamation Down Under
The free speech argument in Australia has always been skewed. Lacking the confidence, courage and maturity to have a bill of rights that might protect […]
Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the High Court
British justice is advertised by its proponents as upright, historically different to the savages upon which it sought to civilise, and apparently fair. Such outrages […]
Ineffectual Boycotts: The Beijing Winter Olympics
Making moral statements in the blood and gristle of international relations can often come across as feeble. In doing so, the maker serves the worst […]
Punishing the Unvaccinated: Europe’s COVID-19 Health Experiment
Forget any notions of juicy carrots; the stick approach of savage punishment is in vogue with the Greek government in pushing vaccination rates. It is […]
Omicron and the Travel Ban Itch
Stick to the script: owe that duty of care to your population, so the legal experts in government tell you. Self-interest pays, if in small […]
Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention
The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when […]
Where there are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest against Rio Tinto
Another fault line has opened in the mining wars. In Serbia, resistance is gathering steam against various deals made between Belgrade and companies that risk […]
Arming Against China: The US Global Posture Review
Get the Marines ready. Store the supplies. Marshal the allies. The United States is getting ready for war (the preferable term in Washington is policing) […]
Foreseeable Risk: Omicron Makes its Viral Debut
It has been written about more times than any care to remember. Pliny the Elder, that old cheek, told us that Africa always tended to […]
The Taiwan Foreign Policy Fetish
Australian foreign policy towards Taiwan, as things stand, is a distant fantasy in floating mist. There is little to connect them, but Australia’s political classes […]
Totalitarian Cyber-Creep: Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse
Never leave matters of maturity to the Peter Panners of Silicon Valley. At their most benign, they are easily dismissed as potty and keyboard mad. […]
The Establishment Panic at Cryptocurrency
When Kingsley Amis encountered the works of D. H. Lawrence, he was left unimpressed by yet another great denouncer and missionary the English send “themselves […]
Electric Car Delusions
Fresh from attending COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was keen to impress the Australian public that he was willing to make good his […]