A Taste of Panic: The Taliban Continues its Advance
The historical vectors are moving with conviction and purpose; the weak and lacking in conviction are in retreat and the gun is doing the talking. […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health
The desperate attempt by the US imperium to nab Julian Assange was elevated to another level on August 11 in a preliminary hearing before the […]
Call in the Khaki: The Australian Defence Force and COVID-19
Towards the latter part of July, Australia’s unimaginative Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a request from the police commissioner from the state of New South […]
Cultivated Delusions at the Tokyo Olympics
Australia’s Channel 7 team was all about ignoring history as its selected commentators went into describing, poorly, the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. The […]
Silicon Valley, New Zealand and Pandemic Exceptionalism
There are some crises that never touch the well-heeled. Money, like flab, insulates them from bruising. The generally applied laws of a state can be […]
Sanitising Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership
This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify […]
Fighting Malta’s Rule of the Jungle: The Daphne Caruana Galizia Inquiry
The Public Inquiry into the murder of the resourceful journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia handed down its findings on July 29. Firm aim was taken at […]
Rio Tinto in Serbia: The Jadar Lithium Project
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture […]
Global Britain Slashes International Aid
“Decisions on aid are eroding trust and eroding relationships between the UK and developing countries.” (Abby Baldoumas, Financial Times, July 15, 2021). Politics is not […]
Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence […]
Afghanistan, Failure and Second Thoughts
It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is […]
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
“The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts.” Martin Müller, European Urban […]
Tokyo’s Pandemic Games Open
The auguries are not good for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Resignations have filled the ledger, including Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, organising committee president Yoshiro Mori […]
Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights
They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for […]
Infectious Follies: Britain’s Freedom Day
He can scant resist a slogan, but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s insistence on describing Britain’s exit from lockdown as Freedom Day came with its […]