Death and Impunity: Iraq Fifteen Years After
It might have made a bit more than a whimper had the US political scene not found itself in yet another paroxysm of the drama […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward […]
The Ease of Accusation: The Skripal Affair
The policy of responding to assassinations on British soil is a near non-existent one. Her Majesty’s Government is certainly in the habit of huffing, and […]
Racial Preferences: Peter Dutton and White South African Farmers
It has been the great misfit Australian policy since the 1990s: a refugee and immigration policy that shows itself to be scrupulously fair, calculable and […]
Art and Exploitation: Ai Weiwei, Dissidence and the Refugee Crisis
The status of dissident offers a certain moral latitude in behaviour, and, in various cases, misbehaviour. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one such figure. […]
Bullied Relations: Australia, East Timor and Natural Resources
“The Commission instead opted for the easiest way out, which is a shame as in my perception it reveals a lack of impartiality on your […]
Dumping Wilson Security: The NGV, Art and Refugee Detention
Art and politics mix, often poorly. Artists are sometimes the hoodwinked emissaries of the latter, sponsored, enlisted and marshalled by the state and corporate entities. […]
Weaponising Rumour: Australia’s New Political Sensitivity
The hide of Australia’s political classes has been worn. Some members, admittedly, never had one. With tiptoeing around language ravaging, and in some cases savaging […]
Paying Tribute: Malcolm Turnbull in the US
Vassals rarely question. If they do, criticism is limited and usually restrained behind closed doors. The Australian Prime Minister’s visit to Washington during February was […]
Prostituting Charity: The Oxfam Debate
Oxfam has outdone itself. In the murky, squalid business where charity seems to chase, then embed itself in disaster zones like a dedicated virus, Oxfam […]
Arming Educators: Trump, Gun Violence and Schools
It had been in the works. Instead of engaging in the traditional revulsion associated with a mass shooting, or even digesting the grief of outraged […]
God, Politics and Billy Graham
Evangelising is an ugly thing. It assumes indisputable truths, and limits the field of inquiry. Its very assertiveness lies in unquestioning rather than probing, a […]
The Caring Profession: Peacekeeping, Blue Helmets and Sexual Abuse
It’s the sort of thing to turn many an otherwise calm stomach, but the revelations that UN peace keeping staff have been involved in sexual […]
Sexual Despotism: Malcolm Turnbull’s Bonking Ban
It’s all the rage at the moment, stirring the halls of power in certain countries, and satisfying some sense of puritanical virtue. Bonking is off […]
Assange, Judge Arbuthnot and the Arrest Warrant
Justice is an elastic concept. Like other terms in law, it has room to expand and contract. But one weakness burdens legal strictures that supposedly […]