An Odd Little Commemoration: ANZAC Mythology during Coronavirus
War commemorations nurse a dirty secret, though it is one displayed with a peacock flourish. The victors bring out the celebratory paraphernalia and talk about […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Climbing the Revenue Mountain: Google, Facebook and the Publishers’ Right
They are rather good at raking in the cash; rather poor at sharing it. Google and Facebook have radiated, strafed and shrivelled hundreds of news […]
Settling Scores: Malcolm Turnbull’s Smaller Picture
Memoirs can be unreliable artefacts. They feature fiercely subjective views, reflections tempered, or hardened, by the passage of time. They tend to be of lives […]
Donald Trump’s Governor Problem: Debates on Opening Up the Economy
Things are getting dizzy in the White House on what, exactly, is being done to “open the economy”. Cranky advocates for the financial argument over […]
The Coronavirus Liability Craze: Holding China Accountable
Politicians, as any political class, will nurse their favourite prejudice. And when there is a crisis, those prejudices will be fanned and praised to the […]
Cutting the Funding: The WHO, Trump and Coronavirus Wars
The US president is in a warring mood. Having declared himself a president at war, a meaningless gesture given that the US is always, somewhere […]
The Fire Fauci Brigade
The intemperate volcano that is the US President has done much to burn its way through prominent appointments. As the title of former GOP strategist […]
Hell is Other People: Pandemic Lifestyles and Domestic Violence
In No Exit, the translated title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, three deceased characters find themselves in a room, ostensibly in Hell, in what […]
Worshiping and Defiling Britain’s NHS
Tories worshipping Britain’s National Health System are akin to fanatical carnivores who suddenly extol the virtues of vegans. Has the grave response to COVID-19 signalled […]
Julian Assange: One Year in Belmarsh
It should not be a matter of distinction, but Julian Assange is a figure who is becoming the apotheosis of political imprisonment. This seems laughable […]
The Coronavirus State: New Zealand and Authoritarian Rumblings
It’s all about the lever of balance. Laws made for public protection, within which public health features prominently, provide grounds for derogation authorities can exploit. […]
A Victory for the Fogeys: Bernie Sanders Drops Out
Champagne corks will be popping in the Trump Empire, for good reason. Whatever happens come November, the exit of Senator Bernie Sanders from the US […]
Cosmic Gangster Capitalism: Elon Musk Crowds the Heavens
“I don’t trust glib reassurances from satellite operators without precise details.” (Alice Gorman, space archaeologist, May 26, 2019). Astronomers tend to have their eyes, and […]
Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in […]
Banal Terrors: Pandemics and the Ordinary Business of War
The twaddle of framing the confrontation of the coronavirus as a “war” has proven to be a cheapening, misguided exercise. France’s president Emmanuel Macron has […]