Spikes of Violence: Protest in West Papua
Like Timor-Leste, West Papua, commonly subsuming both Papua and West Papua, remains a separate ethnic entity, acknowledged as such by previous colonial powers. Its Dutch […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Boris Johnson Trips: Duvets, Toothbrushes and the House of Lords
In 2017, MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory creature trapped in cold storage, suggested that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union was tantamount to fighting […]
Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away […]
The Courage of Saying No: Children, Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
There is something to be said of wariness when it comes to revolutionary voices. As Albert Camus argued in that beautiful tract of illumination and […]
World Systems and Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy
“The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a […]
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole […]
Tradition, Marketing and Blacked Cognac
The moment the liquid hits the mark, lips on the balloon rim, the hand having swirled the mellow colouring to life, the throat anticipates. It […]
Timor-Leste and Australia: A Loveless Affair at Twenty
Cringe worthy, a touch molesting in sentiment: this was the celebratory occasion of the gathering of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with his East Timorese […]
Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit
The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped […]
Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution
“Morality is a job for priests. Not P.R. men.” (Tim Bell, New York Times, Feb 4, 2018). Lord Bell is dead, but his public relations […]
Justifications for Inequality: The Neuroses of Kochland
One of the brothers Koch, David, has shuffled off this mortal coil, and the pious few looking at his passing may well think he is […]
The Naming Industrial Complex: The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Insentience cannot have intelligence, but the modern public relations revolution would have you think otherwise. Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising […]
Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate
Haven’t the critics worked it out yet? US President Donald Trump chugs to the coal of nonsense that may come in the wrapping of some […]
Fast Bowling, Concussions and Jofra Archer
We should all be cheering on some level. So much in this age of cricket favours the pampered bat over the stifled ball. The game […]
No Deal Chaos: The Brexit Cliff Face and Operation Yellowhammer
Britain’s Boris Johnson is driving his country to the cliff face, along the way mouthing and spouting all manner of populist reassurances. Still fresh in […]