Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking
It starts off as an exercise of anticipation. First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark. The audience at this promotions […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The gilt comes off: Singapore goes into lockdown
A clean, technology driven dystopia. A representation of our techno future. These were the introductory descriptions to a piece by science fiction author William Gibson […]
“Elbowed and Hustled”: Australia’s Yellow Peril Problem
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China is being bedded down and […]
Held to Ransom: Colonial Pipeline and the Vulnerabilities of Critical Infrastructure
It should be making officials in the White House tremble. Critical infrastructure supplying 45% of the East Coast’s diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, left at […]
Crashing Out in Hartlepool: Labour Ills and Teflon Boris
By-election results make poor predictors. The government of the day can often count on a swing against it by irritated voters keen to remind it […]
Spending More On Nukes: STRATCOM’s Nuclear Death Wish
Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing. But beware the trappings of zeal. When it comes to the business of retaining an […]
Going to Court: The EU Sues AstraZeneca
It has been a relationship characterised by bitterness and misunderstanding. It began with a poorly negotiated agreement – poor, that is, from the European Union […]
A Very British Case: Postmasters and Miscarriages of Justice
British justice is a splendidly odd animal. Its miscarriage is one of those wonders of institutional repetition. When textbooks are written on the subject, one […]
Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid
Criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed, a report by Human Rights […]
Forgetting Citizenship: Australia Suspends Flights from India
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous Australia has taken the decision […]
Mike Pezzullo and Giving War a Chance
Those madly titillated by conflict have become bolder of late in the corridors of the isolated Australian capital. In such spaces, insanity can be nurtured […]
Joe Biden, Recognition and the Armenian Genocide
Attributing names to the brutal acts humans are capable of inflicting upon each other is never without problems. There are gradations of terror, hierarchies of […]
Ethnic Engineering: Denmark’s Ghetto Policy
The very word is chilling, but has become normalised political currency in Denmark. Since 2010, the Danish government has resorted to generating “ghetto lists” marking […]
Virtual Bunny Hugging: Boasting About Climate Change Goals
He seemed frustrated. While Scott Morrison’s international colleagues at the Leaders Summit on Climate were boastful in what their countries would do in decarbonising the […]
Mixed Sight: New Zealand, the Five Eyes and China
The Five Eyes arrangement between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has always resembled a segregated, clandestine club. Focused on the […]