Dr Binoy Kampmark

Dr Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed on Twitter at @bkampmark.

Bratty Royal: Prince Harry and Bespoke Security Protection

It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a…

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Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions…

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Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes and Labor Triumphs

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got…

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Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen…

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The ICJ, Israel and the Gaza Blockade

The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done…

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Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very…

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Fallibility, Dirty Wars and Pope Francis I

The very idea of infallibility sets one up for the mighty fall. But the Pope, temporal head of all Catholics,…

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The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege

Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that…

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Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing…

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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But…

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