Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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New Endings: How Starmer Lost Gorton and Denton

28 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position […]

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It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats in the Caribbean

27 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit […]

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Biblical Writ and Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson and Israel

26 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating genocide, ethnic cleansing and dubious real estate advice in […]

Condescending and Harmful: Australia’s Social Media Ban

25 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

With much in the way of pomp and false premises, the social media ban in Australia for those under 16-years-old was celebrated as a healthy incentive to encourage children to get off the screens and […]

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Suing for Social Media Addiction: Mark Zuckerberg takes the Stand

24 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It’s not a rare thing to see the founder of Facebook ducking and weaving before the irate comments of Congress as he explains, for yet another time, why his network does not harm, has no […]

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Punishing Language: Queensland’s Antisemitism Bill

21 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 16

In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an antisemitic problem. After last December’s attacks on Sydney’s Bondi Beach by two […]

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Not Forgetting the Victims: Club Epstein and Crimes Against Humanity

19 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 22

With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network continues to disturb. The least savoury digital […]

Prohibitive Puffing: How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime

18 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The cutting of pleasures, the trimming of delights and telling people how they can enjoy life, is the sort of thing that will be tolerated, up to a point. Otherwise liberal countries do suffer moral […]

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Fearing Immigration: The Australian Coalition and the Return of Bad Habits

17 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

Killing political leaders – metaphorically and actually – often ushers in a silly season where the Mad Hatter presides over an imbecilic party. Amidst coups, defections, dethronements and confusions on the right of Australia politics, […]

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Misplaced Mourning: Farewelling the CIA World Factbook

16 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

For those with a sense of humour, consulting alleged facts compiled by an agency specialising in subterfuge, subversion, deception and plain mendacity must surely have been a delightful exercise. That delightful exercise would seem to […]

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Objective Fallacy: Eulogies on the Passing of the Law Based International Order

15 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

The eulogies are starting to wear thin. The lamented passing of the rules and law-based order only makes sense to those who believed that such rules and laws existed in the first place. How easy […]

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Blind and Deaf to AUKUS: Australian Planners and Elusive Submarines

13 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There were never the sharpest negotiators in the room, resembling a facsimile of Bertie Wooster in desperate need of the good advice of his manservant Jeeves. The Australian defence establishment has yet to find a […]

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Bad Beginnings: The End of New START

11 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Future of How awful could it get? The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired on February 5, terminating an era of arms control and imposed limits on lunatically contrived nuclear weapons programs of […]

Politics

Soothsaying and the Sampling Referendum: The Heralded Rise of One Nation

9 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Nominal realities bedevil politics. They usually find form in polling statistics, airings in the land of pundits and those self-appointed wise people who think they have a measure of the electorate and its various wishes. […]

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Lord Mandelson: Trapped in the Epstein Web

6 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Jeffrey Epstein certainly got around. He moved virally, galloping through the cells of the establishment. What was more, he was permitted to. Dead and buried, the financier, convicted paedophile, sex trafficker, eugenics follower, and the […]

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