Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark

When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded […]

When the novel coronavirus started to get stroppy and make its now global impression, one theme seemed to be common. Face masks were, at least […]

The Me Too movement was meant to be more than a howl or rage with a trending hash tag. It was a surge that threatened […]

“When we think of the repression of journalists, we automatically evoke foreign lands. We rarely, however, evoke or remember our own dissidents.” (Peter Oborne, Middle […]

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful. And so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people. And […]

Rounding up undocumented workers, migrant and refugees is part of a brutal order of things in Malaysia. When matters economic are going well, authorities turn […]

If the title of epidemiological czar were to be created, its first occupant would have to be Sweden’s Anders Tegnell. He has held sway in […]

“If we want to preserve strategic stability using arms control as a counterpart of that, as a tool in that toolkit, then China should be […]

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it,” urged the Earl of Chesterfield in a letter of advice to […]

“Mr Assange will be facing a David and Goliath battle with his hands tied behind his back.”  – Edward Fitzgerald QC, lawyer for Julian Assange, […]

“[Y]ou can’t just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say well, we’re killing the cancer, because we were getting to the point where we’re […]

Illness can often fall into the category of the obsessive, becoming a sport for mugs, sufferers and observers alike. The following often feature: the hypochondriac, […]

They have been struggling to keep their membership numbers healthy, but the latest antics of the executive that make up Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union […]