Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit to Australia

4 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Things are getting rather ropey on the invitation of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia on February 8. It came amidst the anguish following the Bondi Beach attacks of December 14, 2025 on attendees […]

Poor Adaptations: The Netherlands, Bonaire and Climate Change Obligations

3 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It was another bead in the string of jurisprudence and case law in climate litigation. Previous sparkling examples include Urgenda Foundation (2019), KlimaSeniorinnen (2024) and the significant Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice […]

Hedonism’s Dance: How the Governing Classes Fell for Jeffrey Epstein

2 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

How did he generate so much paperwork, traffic and comment? New York financier, mountebank, all purposes conman and dedicated rake that he was, Jeffrey Epstein continues to nag living figures from beyond the grave and […]

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Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma

31 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter […]

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The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel

29 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

Australia’s former Prime Minister and faithful Pentecostal Scott Morrison never passes up the chance to express an opinion if it will net him a reward. As one of various politicians of the right (and far […]

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Dancing with European Nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth Antisemitism Conference

29 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Held between January 26 and 27 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center and called Generation Truth, the second international conference on combating antisemitism was a picture of cracking contradictions. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs […]

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The Gangster’s Brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega and Maduro

27 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

US President Donald Trump might leave an impression of violent novelty, at least for the leader of a nominal liberal democracy, soiling international relations with the gangster’s touch. This sense of iconoclasm is misplaced. While […]

The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism and Media

26 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

It’s official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires. (That number was reached last year.) In October 2025, Elon Musk became the first man to have wealth exceeding half a […]

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Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons: Mahmood Revisits the Panopticon

24 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

When does the rot start in a politician? For some, it commences the moment election to office is confirmed. Others need to become cabinet ministers before being wholly blighted. UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood may […]

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Carney at Davos: Removing that Sign in the Window

22 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

“It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry – that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak […]

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Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace

20 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 11

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace overseeing the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise a host of niggling questions. From the outset, the US President made it clear he would be the helmsman of […]

Sleepwalking on the Money: Inequality, Surveillance and the Cashless Society

19 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such silly inconveniences as carrying cash and scouting for a […]

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A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

15 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

What matters peace if it permits killing, maiming and destroying the infrastructure of a society supposedly once at war? This is the situation facing Gaza as the occupying Israeli forces go about their business making […]

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Spectral Threats: China, Russia and Trump’s Greenland Rationale

14 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The Trump administration’s mania about Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, is something to behold. Its untutored thuggery, its brash assertiveness, and the increasingly strident threats to either use force, bully Denmark into a sale […]

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Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil

11 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark