Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps

31 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations and ghastliness of power. For that […]

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Useful Expedient: Expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia

28 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The rank odour of opportunity seems to have presented itself to Australia’s Albanese government. To balance its apparently principled promise to recognise Palestinian statehoodcome the 80th United Nations General Assembly next month, it seemed only […]

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Think Tanker Demands for AUKUS: What Australia Should do with US Submarines

26 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was. Announced in September 2021, ruinous to Franco-Australian relations, and Anglospheric in inclination, the agreement between Washington, […]

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws

24 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination. While the laws […]

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Digging Deeper on Community Radio: Triple R and Indispensable Airwaves

21 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

To get to the venue involves a calming, if early ritual. Uneasy sleep beforehand, given the morning slot. Eagerness to prepare for the topic to be discussed in the global affairs segment, accompanied by that childish […]

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Cancelling the Ethnic Cleansers: Australia Revokes Simcha Rothman’s Visa

20 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles. The spine, on being discovered, adds a certain structural integrity to arguments otherwise lacking […]

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Warmongering Astrologers: Sky News and The War Cabinet

19 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Twenty-four-hour news networks have demonstrated that surfeit kills discretion. The search for fillers, distractions and items that will titillate, enrage or simply sedate, is an ongoing process. Gone are the days when discerning choices were […]

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Lethal Nonsense: Antisemitism, Codes of Conduct, and the Bendigo Writers Festival

16 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide. Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. This is the constipating, stifling regime being put in place via suggested […]

A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World

13 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip […]

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Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif

12 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

“Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship.” Such extremism visited Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza City late on August 10. […]

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Occupation and Slaughter: Netanyahu and Taking Over Gaza

9 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a “final solution” to […]

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When Hubris Met Nemesis: The Titan Submersible Investigation Report

7 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

A reckless enterprise bordering on criminal stupidity, the story of the Titan’s crushing demise as it descended to the ocean floor is one with many historical echoes. The Report of Investigation (ROI) by the US […]

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Adjusting the Temperature: Climate Change and International Law

6 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Before the clenching constipation of reluctant and cloddish policy makers, climate change advocates have found courts surprisingly amenable to their concerns. Bodies of environmental law in national courts and international tribunals are now burgeoning on […]

Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March

5 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended […]

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Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship

3 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. Lately, those mad protectors and censors with their shields […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark