Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal
It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this. Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
News Corp Turns Climate Change Inactivist
The faux Damascene converts have been doing the rounds in the Murdoch empire of late, stirring interest in matters green and attempting to shift, if […]
Bitcoin the Messiah: El Salvador Goes Crypto
In a particular deli store in South Melbourne, a tongue-and-cheek message is attached to the cash register. “Bitcoin accepted there,” it proclaims brightly. Naturally, it […]
Messianic Failure: Pursuing the GWOT Jabberwock
Anniversaries can provide occasions for reflection and deep consideration. Past errors and misjudgements can be considered soberly; historical distance provides perspective. Mature reflections may be […]
Paul Wolfowitz: Deluded and At Liberty
It was all marvellous for Paul Wolfowitz to get on Australian television (why bother?) to brusquely discuss those attacks on US soil in September 2001 […]
Weaponised Refugees and Hybrid Attacks
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by arguing that they are illegitimate depending […]
Blinken Says No to Greenland Real Estate
In May, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a visit to Greenland. In a rather unedifying way, he was called ‘Tony’ by his hosts, […]
Droning Disasters: A US Strike on Kabul
No more profoundly disturbing statement was needed. In the dying days of the official US departure from Kabul, a US drone etched its butcher’s legacy […]
Abandoned and Alone: Lamenting the US-Australian Alliance
Listening to Australian pundits talk about the relationship of their country with the US – at least from a strategic perspective – can be a […]
The Neocons Speak: Afghanistan as Political Real Estate
When the tears dry, it is worth considering why there is so much upset about the fall of Kabul (or reconquest) by the Taliban and […]
Amazon’s Drive into Africa
Since 2004, Amazon has been building a foothold on the African continent. In Cape Town, it already employs thousands in a global call centre and […]
Lingering Peculiarities: Slavery and Manumission in the Roman Empire
The question does not bear asking, but in a global economy greased by what has been termed disposable people, the past’s previous examples of the […]
Reluctant Acceptance: Responding to Afghanistan’s Refugees
Do not for a minute think that this is a kind, heart-felt thing in the aftermath of Kabul’s fall. True, a number of Afghans will […]
Wounded Paternalism: Biden and the US Imperial Complex
Civilisation has tended to be seen like a gift by those claiming to grant it. It is done, in the sense Rudyard Kipling intended it, […]
The Taliban take Kabul
It unfolded as a story of fleeing. The Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, taking flight to Tajikistan, giving little clue of his intentions to colleagues. The […]