WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat
The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society’s scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Lunar Narratives: Landing on the Moon, Politics and the Cold War
Anniversaries are occasions to distort records. The intoxicated recounting of the past faces a record in need of correction. Couples long married hide their differences […]
Manus, Nauru and an Australian Detention Legacy
It could be called a gulag mentality, though it finds form in different ways. In the defunct Soviet Union, it was definitive of life: millions […]
Donald Trump, the Democrat Squad and Failed Impeachment
Twitter has become policy. It is platform, direction and determination. It has served one particular person well, a hazy mechanism to fog up the lenses […]
Spying on Julian Assange: UC Global, CNN and Russian Couriers
History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making […]
Corporate Gangster: Adani’s Pursuit of Scientists
The Adani conglomerate should be best described as a bloated gangster, promising the earth even as it mines it. Like other corporate thugs of such […]
The Resigning Ambassador: Sir Kim Darroch on Donald Trump
Rarely do ambassadors resign after an intense self-assessment of worth. Diplomatic immunity does not merely extend to protecting the official from the reach of local […]
Juggling with the Authoritarians: Donald Trump’s Diplomatic Copy Book
Cue the shots, take the snaps: US President Donald Trump was back entertaining his fetish with firm handshakes proclaiming the making of history in the […]
Out of Kilter: National Security and Press Freedoms in Australia
Australian society relishes secrecy and surveillance. Forget the laid-back, relaxed demeanour that remains the great fiction of a confected identity; like all such creations, the […]
Dressed for the Fourth of July: The US Imperium Comes Out
The United States of Amnesia has occasionally found expression amongst those despairing at the state of historical consciousness in Freedom’s Land. Gore Vidal remains something […]
Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia’s Megadeath Complex
The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand took a stand against the […]
Facebook, Funny Money and Libra
In this squalid era of compromised data and hollowed privacy, it would be fitting that the company largely responsible for such mishaps would steer another […]
G20 Gyrations: Donald, Ivanka and Hollow Diplomacy
Traditional diplomacy is being given a makeover – at least where it is not being abolished altogether and being replaced by a replica of The […]
Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
“The founder of Netscape said software is going to eat the world.” (Tristan Harris, Centre for Humane Technology, June 25, 2019). Monsters and titans share […]
Tweets of Praise: Donald Trump, Australia and Refugees
Praise from US President Donald Trump has a tendency of tarnishing gold and ungilding matters, and there was something of the muck in his tweet […]