Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged?

1 July 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised by President Donald Trump on June 22, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on […]

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A Vassal’s Impulse: Australia Backs US Strike on Iran

29 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The initial statement from Australian government sources was one of constipated caution and clenching wariness. Senator Penny Wong’s time as head of the Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs has always been about how things […]

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The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War

28 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President Donald Trump was hoping to impress upon all present that […]

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Hastie’s Sensible Advice: More Transparency on US Forces in Australia

25 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition minister for home affairs, had been moved by an idea: greater transparency was needed regarding […]

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Directive to Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good

23 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and […]

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Shelling the Aid Seekers: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Project in Gaza

19 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

It’s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing and states of desperation. They do so casually or indifferently or maliciously. True, they might get […]

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Self-Defence and Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams of Regime Change

17 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in the open and before the presses, the head of state of one country […]

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Condemning the Right to Self Defence: Iran’s Retaliation and Israel’s Privilege

16 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the rules. Instead of accepting with dutiful meekness the slaughter of its […]

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Rogue States and Thought Crimes

14 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a “supreme emergency”, […]

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AUKUS: A Very Antipodean Stupidity

14 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia’s most injudicious strategic decision is yielding its nasty harvest. Conceived by paranoid armchair strategists, flabby think tankers […]