Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review

3 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvious distraction than preparing for war against a […]

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Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes

2 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. Her accusation: the apparent copying of recipes for caramel slice and baklava from Maehashi’s RecipeTin […]

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Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

31 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security – and the naked show of […]

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Roads to War: The EU’s Security Action for Europe Fund

29 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following glum observation: “Openly and flagrantly, certain countries express their will to expand and make preparations […]

Operation Sindoor targets terror hideouts in Pakistan.

Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor

27 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, slaughtered 26 tourists in the resort town of Pahalgam in the Indian […]

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The Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers: Netanyahu’s Antisemitism Canard

25 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Here was another chance – at least as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it – of threading one set of events with another. It’s all part of the Israeli security state’s playbook: any killing […]

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots

21 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes that have left hundreds of Palestinians dead, Operation Gideon’s Chariots is now in full swing, […]

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Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television

20 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television program to select immigrants vying for US citizenship. Whether this […]

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Rehabilitation and Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump and Sanctions

18 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. It encourages change, for ill or otherwise. The stance taken, righteously pitiful, on not negotiating with those […]

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Trump, Planes and the Arabian Gulf Tour

16 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

They seemed made for each other. A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from the truth, and the various leaders of the Gulf States, who never found truthful assessments […]

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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections on Mother’s Day

13 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off. Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way. One occasion is most prominent in this regard. Nostrils get clogged and eyes get fogged, […]

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White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

11 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many […]

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Bratty Royal: Prince Harry and Bespoke Security Protection

9 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 24

It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a day specialty for Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, notably when giving interviews from commodious abodes […]

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Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

7 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into conditions of further misery would all qualify as heinous crimes in international law. When it comes […]

Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes and Labor Triumphs

6 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got to work. If history is seen as a set of agreed upon facts, there was […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark