Childish Diplomacy: Donald Trump’s New Play Against Iran
Diplomacy has been seen historically as a practitioner’s art, nurtured in schools of learning, tested and tried in the boardrooms of mild-mannered summitry. Klemens von […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The Pinkerton Effect: The US Marines in Darwin
Subordinates rarely have a good time of dictating matters to their superiors. In the webbed power relations that pass as realpolitik, Australia is the well-behaved […]
Violent Voyeurism: Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights
Surveillance is merely a variant of violent voyeurism, the human behind the camera or visual apparatus observing behaviour in a setting, often private. Its premise […]
Nigel Farage’s Grand Tour of Sabotage: The PayPal of the People Rides High
He is all about being the romantic saboteur. He is destructive, hates the business of a steady vocation, and the idea of being desk bound. […]
The Fragility of Democracy: Hong Kong, China and the Extradition Bill
It has been a history of turns and the occasional betrayal, but Hong Kong’s experiment with democracy, incubated within the Special Administrative Region, was always […]
Matters of Water: Dubious Approvals and the Adani Carmichael Mine
“When a company wields such power that it can cause a Minister to rush an approval process, cut corners and make significant errors, it is […]
Julian Assange and the Scales of Justice: Exceptions, Extraditions and Politics
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom did his thing, which was little in the way of disagreement. The superpower has issued a request; the […]
Cleansing the Platforms: YouTube, Censorship and Grievance
Stripping the altars, burning the heretics and cleansing the stables are the usual fare of a morally crazed order. The engaged agents think they have […]
The Danish Elections: Social Democracy with an Inhumane Face
The great centrist European tradition of social democracy has been receiving a rattle for the last few decades. The European Parliament elections were a reminder […]
Snubs, Bumps and Donald Trump in Britain
He may not be popular in Britain, but he still has shavings of appeal. For a country that has time for Nigel Farage, pro-Brexit enthusiast […]
Warring Against Sources: The Australian National Security State, Journalism and the Public Interest
“What’s gone on this morning sends clear and dangerous signals to journalists and newsrooms across Australia. This will chill public interest reporting.” (News Corp Australia […]
Cults of Impeachment: The Mueller Report, Trump and Wedging the Democrats
It is a giddy intoxicant, and making all who partake fall over in puddling nonsense. The Mueller Report is not turning out to be the […]
Findings of Torture: The UN Rapporteur and Julian Assange
Another crude and sad chapter, yet more evidence of a system’s vengeance against its challengers. Julian Assange, like they dying Roman emperor Vespasian, may be […]
Lies in Politics: Boris Johnson, the Law and the European Union
An enduring memory of the 2016 Brexit campaign, so marked by the foppish-haired blusterer, Boris Johnson, was the claim that the European Union was hungrily […]
A compulsive matter: Mandatory voting and its discontents
The session is on Radio National, Australia’s effort at highbrow airings on the wireless. And, to be fair, it often does not disappoint. But on […]