Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Space Loos, Lunar Exploitation and Colonial Escapism: The Artemis II Mission

22 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer. Between April […]

Troubled Relations: Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump

21 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin […]

Confused Closures and Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait

19 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest […]

Putting the Calamity Makers in Charge: Anthropic and Claude Mythos Preview

17 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Be wary of a company – any company – who exerts moral muscle as they create software and digital platforms that are injurious and simultaneously lauded for curing that injury. Be especially wary of Anthropic. […]

The Travails of Noma: God Chefs, Brutal Kitchens and the Cult of Fine Dining

14 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds […]

Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel’s War on Lebanon

11 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to […]

Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes

9 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

He’s out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US President Donald J. Trump has reached an uneasy understanding with […]

Exploiting Useful Enemies: Ukraine in Hungary’s Elections

8 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics of hate, violence and betrayal. It’s the politics of finding the useful enemy and bullying […]

UN recognizes transatlantic slavery as crime.

Omissions on a Cruel Trade: The Neglected Role of African Slavers

6 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution endorsed by 123 votes. Those voting either against the resolution (Argentina, Israel and the United […]

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Food Time Bombs and Predicted Starvation: The Prospects of a Hormuz Transit Deal

5 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated with a phrase, usually annexed to the image of a suffering child with hollow eyes […]

Protest sign against execution of prisoners law.

Executing with Prejudice: Israel’s Death Penalty Law

4 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an instrument expanding the use of the death penalty for offences of a […]

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Closing Air Spaces and Cracking Alliances: Trump’s Growing Problem with Allies

2 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

With the Iran War groaning along, the Trump administration is getting increasingly indignant. Plumes of childish anger can be seen coming out of the White House and Pentagon. Having joined an illegal, joint enterprise with […]

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Inspiring the Authentic Journalist: The Pentagon’s Renewed attack on Press Credentials

1 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

On March 20, 2026, US District Senior Judge Paul Friedman found for The New York Times in a ruling deeming the Pentagon’s media access policy in breach of the US Constitution. Central to the policy […]

Missiles displayed in front of Iranian flag.

It’s all about the nukes

31 March 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The idea of nuclear non-proliferation has come in for some heavy punishment of late. For one thing, powers with nuclear weapons, pre-eminently the United States, have been shown up as blackguards in seeking to prevent […]

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The Iran War: A Great Carbon Emitter

30 March 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists. Attacks on gas fields, oil refineries and petrochemical plants will […]

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