Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

School Deaths and Narco Killings: The UN and US Crimes in International Law

25 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United States in two theatres of engagement. In one, the UN Independent International […]

Bidding Wars and Nonsense Targets: Cutting Migration Down Under

24 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they arrive through regular channels or otherwise) who are seen as ills to be shunned rather than solutions […]

False Advertising: Albanese, Digital Safety and Australia’s Security Council Bid

22 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of his premiership. Politically, he is so invested in it as to have become a salesman of sorts. In September last […]

Guinness Meditations and Fine Retreats: The Drunken Poet Turns Twenty

20 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Ale house readings, spiritual zest, and the inevitable crapulous effect: a pub, the public house, the inn, the tavern, that home that functions between your actual home and the funeral rites that lie ahead, a […]

Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the Pacing Fallacy

17 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the […]

Money Morals: Leon Black in Epstein Land

15 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

It has been a source of wonder how celebrity paedophile, flesh presser, sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein managed to obtain his lucre. Was he more than a deft confidence trickster, a liar with astonishing […]

Hubris in Action: Netanyahu and the Warnings of October 7

15 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied […]

A New Sanctions Regime: Targeting Israel’s West Bank Settlements

10 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have been a slow burn affair. Condemnation and admonitions have issued from various international bodies and […]

Skidding Pacts: An AUKUS Delusion Update

9 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all matters tanking over the thinking – in short, the world of defence – the convenient delusion will always […]

Slanted Cartography: The Politics of Mapping

9 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion, an acceptance, or even a repudiation of power. Borders are delineated for reasons of interest and understanding. […]

Dreams about Gaza: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Proposals

5 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 23

I’m Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the hilarious stage acts of referring to legal doctrines that either […]

Slander and Impunity: The World Central Kitchen Killings in Gaza

3 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

In September 2025, nine countries launched the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel. Australia explained its important if dark inspiration in pursuing it: the slaying of Zomi Francken, along with six of her colleagues […]

Thieving Matters: The Trump-Venezuela Oil Steal

1 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking was asserted. Here was thuggish impunity, crude acquisition and harsh plunder in operation: […]

Autonomous Weapons and Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits

1 September 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red […]

Sensible Invalidations: Striking Down France’s Social Media Ban for Minors

30 August 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has captured the interest of governments for its shallow, meretricious appeal. Refusing to […]

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