Diminishing Returns: Calculated Misery in Air Travel
If there comes a point when people will decide not to fly, the issue may well be less to do with any moral or ethical […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Janus-Faced on Climate Change: Microsoft’s Carbon Vision
“This is a bold bet – a moonshot – for Microsoft.” So claimed Brad Smith, Microsoft President, in a Thursday announcement painting a picture of […]
A Matter of Quality: Air Pollution, Tennis and Sporting Officialdom
They are disgruntled and have every right to be. Whatever one’s feelings about tennis, expecting athletes to perform in subpar conditions is a rank matter […]
Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
London. Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing […]
Harry and Meghan Exit: The Royal Family Propaganda Machine
Royal gossip is worth its weight in gold on the British media circuit. Buckingham Palace knows that, and seeks to control, as much as it […]
Vague Imminence: US policy, Pre-emptive Force and Qasem Soleimani
International relations is typified by its vagueness of definition and its shallowness of justification. Be it protecting citizens of a state in another, launching a […]
Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect
Cocooned as it is from the world of science scepticism, the handling of the bush fire catastrophe unfolding in Australia is going to one of […]
Disruptive Assassinations: Killing Qassem Soleimani
On the surface, it made not one iota of sense. The murder of a foreign military leader on his way from Baghdad airport, his diplomatic […]
Australia Burns: Fireworks, Bush Fires and Denial
As 2020 approached, the sense that the barbarians were not only at the gates but had breached the walls of indifference had come to the […]
Indian Adventures: Policing, Facial Recognition and Targeting Privacy
The chances for those seeking a world of solitude are rapidly run out. A good case can be made that this has already happened. Aldous […]
Hypersonic Putin and Gonzo Weaponry
Weapons of dazzling murderousness have always thrilled military industrial establishments. They make money; they add to the accounts; and they tickle the pride of States […]
Scapegoats for Jamal Khashoggi
The hit squad that went about its deadly business with varying degrees of competence in Istanbul last year is set to be thinned. Five members […]
Christmas Revolutions: The Fall of Ceauşescu
Christmas might be associated with nativities, but in the context of Romania’s Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena, it came with a butchering. As a […]
Burning Continents, Secret Travels and Scott Morrison
The bush fire situation in Australia is now deemed catastrophic. And it started early, with a relentless ferocity that has seen thousands of volunteers stretched […]
Medical Opinion, Torture and Julian Assange
On November 27 this year, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, delivered an address to the German Bundestag outlining his approach to understanding the […]