Good Riddance: Facebook Threats and News Opportunities
News and information can only go so far. Despite the utopian fluffiness about having multiple platforms, the consumers of news want only one thing: the […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Wasting the Elderly: Coronavirus and the Calculus of Death
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welled-up because of it. In March, he feared that the world’s elderly citizens risked […]
The Sentencing of Brenton Tarrant: Jailing the Man, not the Great Replacement
Brenton Tarrant was sentenced last week. The Australian national who butchered, with relish, 51 individuals in Christchurch at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic […]
Australia-China Relations: Down Under Squabbling
These are proving testy times for Australian-Chinese relations. Last week, Chinese authorities announced that an investigation would be conducted into claims that Australia has been […]
Waiting for the Old Bailey: Julian Assange and Britain’s Judicial Establishment
On September 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of a process that has become […]
Burying the Hatchet Act: Donald Trump’s Unconventional Convention
Conventions suggest norms, a set of accepted rules. Behaviour is agreed upon in advance. In the case of US political conventions, there is much cant […]
Free Speech Be Damned: Joshua Krook and the Australian Public Service
There was very little controversial about it. A featured blog post in the Oxford Political Review, authored in April by Joshua Krook, suggested that COVID-19 […]
Hymn for a Broken Empire: Republican National Security Officials for Biden
If fodder is needed for the argument that a Deep State is running wild and determined to depose President Donald J. Trump, this will surely […]
Permitted Unlawfulness: The New Zealand Coronavirus Lockdown
“Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.” (Lord Acton) It is a study both troublesome and perplexing. […]
Echo Chamber Politics: The “All About Trump” Democratic National Convention
It was hard to stomach. The usual suspects, the usual scripts tatty from overuse. The 2020 Democratic National Convention was a prolonged display of avoidance, […]
Underpaying Casual Staff and Forgetting Education: The Australian University Formula
Scandalous underpayment has become common fare at Australia’s universities. An inverse relationship can be identified here: the wealthier the institution, the more likely it will […]
Google’s Open Letter: Fighting Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
Tech giants tend to cast thin veils over threats regarding government regulations. They are also particularly concerned by those more public-spirited ones, the sort supposedly […]
Foiled in the Security Council: The United States, Extending Arms Embargoes and Iran
There are no official policing authorities as such when it comes to international relations. Realists imagine a jungle of states, the preyed upon and the […]
In Denial: Australia, Human Rights and Climate Change
When the complaint was lodged in May 2019, there was a sense of the audacious about it. Eight Torres Strait Islanders had taken the trouble […]
Extreme Moderation in the Spittoon: Kamala Harris for VP
The Vice Presidency has always gotten a degree of bad press in the US political system. Its ineffectuality is sometimes lost on the occupant, though […]