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About Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dr Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed on Twitter at @bkampmark.
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Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

May 2, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by the Trump administration. From hectoring and mocking the Ukrainian […]

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The ICJ, Israel and the Gaza Blockade

April 30, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done thing. These are the sorts of activities kept quiet and secluded in their vicious execution. […]

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Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

April 27, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into practice. How unfortunate for rich ideas to linger in cold […]

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Fallibility, Dirty Wars and Pope Francis I

April 25, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The very idea of infallibility sets one up for the mighty fall. But the Pope, temporal head of all Catholics, is one such character, the papacy one such institution, arrogantly paraded before religion, faith and […]

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The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege

April 23, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that has shown itself unimpeachable for decades? A curious event teasing and ruffling currency watchers and […]

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Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

April 22, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing civilians and unarmed personnel is the stuff of misreading and misunderstandings, albeit arrived at with […]

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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

April 20, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is […]

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De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

April 18, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. “Security zones” are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and […]

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Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety

April 16, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are embellished and magnified. In the […]

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Gender Stunts in Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys

April 15, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show, masquerading as profound, moving and […]

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Olfactive Implications: Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

April 14, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the perfume is characterised by notes of Calabrian bergamot and Papua New Guinean […]

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Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project

April 11, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion. Historically, this saw the emergence […]

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Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

April 9, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23. It all came to light from a video that the IDF […]

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Withdrawal Symptoms: Hungary, Europe and the International Criminal Court

April 8, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Europe seems to be suffering paroxysms of withdrawal, notably when it comes to international conventions. Many states on the continent seem to have decided that international law is a burden onerous and in need of […]

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Addressing Hate Speech and Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable in Africa

April 6, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can be sued over its alleged role in […]

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