Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Israel’s Annexation Drive: The West Bank and Expelling Palestinian Refugees

26 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, […]

Gloominess and Magical Thinking: The Comical, Frightening Mike Burgess

25 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly. Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception. While the attractions of transparency are powerful, the result of a garrulous spook is always going to be unreliable. […]

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Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale

23 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged unexpected. The same organisers will claim to be open minded, […]

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Second Endings: Terminating ‘Neighbours’ (Again)

22 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their tonic and medication from reality, is being terminated for the second time. In 2022, steady […]

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Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum

18 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have been displayed. The viewer is treated […]

Politics

Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex

13 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial world. President Harry S. Truman […]

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Cutting the Ghost Budget: Elon Musk versus the Pentagon

12 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not abolish altogether, understandably concerns those in the business of government. And there is much […]

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A Thief’s Mentality: Trump, Real Estate and Dreams of Ethnic Cleansing

10 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

President Donald J. Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue […]

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Why Fly in Europe? The Dark Triumph of the Ryanair Effect

5 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

It has had a rebarbative, blighting effect across the entire aviation industry. The Ryanair model, for want of a better term, prides itself on minimal, no-frills service for eye popping prices. The Irish-based low-cost carrier […]

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Trump, Tariffs and Russia: A Very Muddled Policy

4 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 16

It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling his various counterparts on the international scene with tariffs is bound to work at every […]

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Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library

31 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and staff from the […]

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Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing

27 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Frankfurt, January 26 It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving people across terminals. Instead of promptitude in offering advice to those desperately […]

Pity the Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO and Spending for War

22 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919) There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets. There was Herman Van […]

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Justifying the Egregious: John Howard and Spying on East Timor

21 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Bugging, in the context of intelligence, is natural for the buggee. Those who approve it and engage in such a practice, however, get riled when the favour is returned in all its rich naturalness. In […]

Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire

19 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the Gaza ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark