Sugar Demons, Sweet Lobbies and Taxes
It came across on the ABC’s Four Corners as something of a junkie’s confession: I am an addict, and I know. The conservative MP for […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Without a US Ambassador: Australia Awaits
It was cheered and embraced with enthusiasm bordering on self-praise: Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr. of the Pacific Fleet would be making his way to […]
The Korean Promise: The Meeting in Panmunjom
It seems, and certainly feels like a distant number of months since a panel of experts noshed and chatted over how best to overcome the […]
Incremental Destruction: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Death of Stalin’
The literature on his blood-soaked rule has reached Babel Tower proportions. Joseph Stalin, who presided over a state transformed and tormented, has been a difficult […]
Plunder Down Under: The Rot in Australia’s Financial Services
It has all the elements of a crudely crafted if effective tale: banks and other financial services, founded, proud of their standing in society; financial […]
Clamouring against Russia: The Cyber Attack Platform
In a time when such revelations as those of Edward Snowden pass a person’s lips with ease and awareness, political clamouring for action and measures […]
Macron’s Syria Game
There is a certain bullishness in French circles these days, even if there was an initial attempt, with the Macron government, to calm matters down. […]
Blind Assault: Trump Strikes Syria
Feeling that some display of force was needed, US president Donald Trump issued orders on Friday to demonstrate some form of muscle, albeit exercised some […]
Admiring Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg goes before Congress
This is a dance of confused ends and mistrustful glances, mixed with occasional moments of misplaced adoration. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame has never been […]
Pacific Moves: China, Vanuatu and Australia
Washington’s vigilant deputy, doing rounds on the beat in the Pacific, has been irate of late. The central issue here is the continuing poking around […]
Trump’s Corporate Cursing: The Case of Amazon and Jeff Bezos
When the President of the United States forgets that he is no longer running the set of The Apprentice, with its faux callousness and elevated […]
Indulgent Violence: The Legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
There was nothing of the Siddhartha about her. Modest and sombre middle ways are not the stuff of revolutionary ardour. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s mark on history […]
Faking it and Fakery: Najib and Censorship
Fake news has not merely become a business but a designation. It is a way of silencing dissent, and questioning accounts. For the authoritarian, this […]
Precarious Communications: Julian Assange, Internet Access and Ecuador
Being a netizen, to use that popular term of sociological derivation, can be a difficult business. It presumes digital engagement, often of the sharper sort. […]
The Temptations of Ball Tampering: Steve Smith’s Australian Team in South Africa
There was an audacity about it, carried out with amateurish callowness. As it turned out Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft, besieged and vulnerable, had been egged […]