Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Competing for Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest

17 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves […]

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Chatbot Unions: The Dawn of AI Marriages

16 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form. Who is to marry whom; the process of selecting the appropriate breeding partners; the […]

Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation

12 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US, Google and Vocus, an Australian digital infrastructure firm, to deliver the […]

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Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump

11 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October 2024 Panorama programme of two parts of US […]

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Consultants and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick

8 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better, consultancy firms are now getting paid for work done by non-humans, conventionally called […]

Missile defense system intercepting threats illustration.

A Question of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome to Australia

7 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The world of defence policy is truly on another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project […]

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Targeting Palantir and Nvidia: Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stocks

6 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be […]

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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres

3 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is […]

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Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement on Nuclear Testing

1 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear […]

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Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA

30 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, […]

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Mr President, take our critical minerals: Albanese in the White House

28 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald […]

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Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy

27 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws […]

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Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet

26 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from the tricked and the gulled. Many an art curator is […]

Men handling UNRWA aid sacks in warehouse.

Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

23 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Few times in its history has the International Court of Justice been this busy, if ever. For anyone ignorant of the world court’s existence till now, it has blanketed news coverage with provisional orders and advisory […]

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Inchoate Blobs: The National Press Club Cancels Chris Hedges

22 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 13

It seemed an odd thing to begin with. Australia’s National Press Club is a rather ordinary, stuffy institution, where enlightened, let alone contentious thought, rarely intrudes. For those guests of unorthodox disposition, questions of establishment […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark