Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention turns 75

11 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered abuse, subversion and neglect from state parties. At times, it is […]

Balls to the White House Ballroom

8 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The edifice complex of the Trump administration is proving to be an aggressive one. As with previous presidents, the current occupant is keen to leave his architectural mark. And it promises to be an exceedingly […]

Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic

6 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of supposedly […]

Stillborn Peace Plans: Israel, Hamas and the Question of Disarmament

5 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump is again on the stage pulling on the strings of history. This time, […]

Horse, Anyone? Equine Spotting in the Food Chain

4 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its presence. In a world of mass supply, changing of hands, and bewilderingly complex […]

Football Lucre: The Revolt Against Infantino’s Funding Plans

2 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of mafia qualities that governs world football. Add to the mix crawling-to-power […]

Managed Extinguishment: Husic, Debating Gaza and the ALP Conference

30 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party that they were going too far. The concerns – a nice dollop of […]

Execrable Drivel: The US State Department’s Cuba Report

29 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-streaked US State Department report on Cuba is anything to go by. Reading this travesty of […]

Karim Khan: Sex, Politics, and the ICC

28 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion, been less cautious in making a journey to […]

Enrichment Antics: Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal

26 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does, streaky and fickle. The agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia for […]

Modish Blockades: The Houthis, Trump and Expanding the War

23 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy international traffic and cargo pass through. The Iranians were the first to realise an eventuality long suspected: […]

Close that Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests

21 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the […]

Manuring the Ground: Trump, China and Stolen Elections

20 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election result of 2020, when he lost to the Democratic contender, […]

Acting the Goose: Pauline Hanson’s Tour of Blighty

19 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as a garden variety racist, Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party […]

Fearing Justice: Rubio Gets Bolshie About the ICC

15 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have decided to take to the barricades. In a July 13 media note released by a […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark