The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies
One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Quixotic Regulation: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Capitulates
It was given top billing, a near absurd show intended to rope in content on a global social media platform, thereby denying all outside Australia […]
Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet
You could almost sense the smacking of lips, accompanied by the rubbing of hands. The departure of Benny Gantz from the Israeli war cabinet, which […]
Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of Slaughter
War always commands its own appeal. It has its own frazzled laurels, the calling of its own worn poets tenured in propaganda. In battle, the […]
Diamonds and Cold Dust: Slaughter at Nuseirat
The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity’s gloomy […]
The EU Elections: The March of the Right
The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that […]
Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning of Hindutva
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of […]
Tory Nightmares: The Return of Nigel Farage
Few have exerted as much influence on the tone, and outcome of elections, as Nigel Farage. Fewer have done so while failing to win office. […]
Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems and Australia’s Future Fund
Australia’s modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged, are keeping an eye on […]
Ming Vase Politics: UK Labour and Purging the Corbynistas
By any reckoning, this was the move of a fool. A fool, it should be said, motivated by spite larded with caution. Evidently playing safe, […]
The Stuffing of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike
It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral Daniel […]
Soaking Sunak Calls the Sodding Election
It was a pitiful sight. Soaked and literally washed-out, the feeble thin British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made an announcement that caught many in his […]
A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence in New Caledonia
France’s Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of […]
Australia’s Anti-ICC Lobby
Throwing caution to the wind, grasping the nettle, and every little smidgen of opportunity, Australia’s opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was thrilled to make a point […]
A Misplaced Purity: Democracies and Crimes Against International Law
The application for arrest warrants by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan in the Israel-Hamas War gives us a chance to […]