Borat versus Social Media: Sacha Baron Cohen Comes out Swinging
Having made a name for himself causing cringing controversy, forging alter egos with the ease of a spam producer, Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat, […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Popes Against Nuclear Weapons
The Vatican comes with its ills, contradictions and blatant hypocrisies in the field of moral theology and human existence, but on the issue of atomic […]
Through the Yellow Looking Glass: Australia’s China Wars
This year, China as Intimidating Monster has become the popular motif in Canberra circles. Australian government members Andrew Hastie and Senator James Paterson have become […]
Dropped Investigations: Julian Assange, Sex and Sweden
Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the […]
Letting the Side Down: Prince Andrew, the Royal Family and Jeffrey Epstein
The choking cloud of Jeffrey Epstein’s paedophilic legacy has been floating over the Atlantic for some time. It does its best (or worst) in matters […]
Open Guidelines: The Foreign Interference Problem in Australian Universities
Education has always been a political matter, whatever the apolitical advocates of it think it is. In Australia, it has proven sectarian, ideological, and skewed, […]
Business as Usual: Evo Morales and the Coup Condition
There is an inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that signals coup, assassination and disruption. No state is ever allowed to go through […]
Incinerating Logic: Bushfires and Climate Change
Despite the Internet, connectivity, and linking technologies, distance has not shrunk the Australian sense of self, an often provincial appraisal of the world seen in […]
Walls in the Head: Ostalgia and the Berlin Wall Three Decades Later
Walls have always served a dual purpose: they keep people in, and others out. The mentality of the wall is one of imprisonment and exclusion. […]
Charter for Conservatism: The ALP Campaign Review
Reports on electoral strategies are often written in order to be avoided. They are scripted for the express purpose of gathering dust on shelves, or […]
Corporate Mammon: Amazon and the Seattle Council Elections
An enduring US political tradition was in evidence in Seattle recently. Amazon had decided that the city council elections would be too important to leave […]
Curfew Panda
It seems a tall, ambitious and very authoritarian order: imposing bans on persons under the age of 18 from playing online games between 22:00 and […]
The Hillary Clinton Resentment Machine
Only a sadomasochist would consider it a genuine prospect. A failed presidential candidate, the louse in the locks of the Democratic Party, keen to make […]
Scott Morrison’s Authoritarian Streak: Crushing Anti-Mining Protest in Australia
The Prime Minister of Australia is fuming. Having made his mark on Australian politics by being the mining sector’s most avid defender, Scott Morrison was […]
Tethering Pegasus: WhatsApp takes NSO Group to Court
A lawsuit filed in a US federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday threw up a few interesting, and disturbing considerations. In it, the Facebook-owned […]