Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

15 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various turf-conscious representatives of the International Olympic Committee will be busy with the task of finding […]

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Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

14 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact. They do not care to reassure; they merely care to strike fear into hearts and feed the sort of […]

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Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

12 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president twice. One particular group that have become […]

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More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash

8 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound to happen with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, given his previous insistence that […]

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Macron’s Offer: France and the Delusions of Nuclear Deterrence

7 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in various capitals. From Canberra to Brussels, there is concern that such assumed, if unverifiable notions […]

Righteous, Confused and Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament

4 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians. At points, it can even be endearing. In the apparently wide wake left by the mauling of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in […]

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Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

3 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 21

There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again, President Donald Trump is a tabloid brute, a man incarnated from the […]

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Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

1 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The conduct of live–fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called by the analytically strained) has recently caused much murmur and consternation in Australia. It’s the […]

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Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions

28 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been the site and location for […]

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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 […]

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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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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark