Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom

8 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The waxwork figures of the Pentagon recently glowed with excitement with the announcement that the US military would be finally called upon to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. With the ceasefire between Teheran and Washington […]

The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy and Abduction on the High Seas

6 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

They have become adept flouters of international law. When doing so, they justify such violations with streaky, anaemic interpretations of self-defence and security. The Global Sumud Flotilla’s encore effort to break the Gaza blockade, which […]

Dangers to the Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index

5 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Scribblers, scribes, authors and publishers – all of these are facing ever worsening conditions in pursuing their work in battling the goons of secrecy and impunity. The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index […]

Brussels, Russia and the Venice Biennale: Art as Politics and Hypocrisy

4 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves. Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of times, their judgment likely to be swayed by factions, […]

Show Me the Money: A Loutish Administration Confronts a Craven Congress

1 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed […]

Starmer’s Talking Points: King Charles III Visits Washington

29 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

He can hardly be blamed for being given the brief by his Prime Minister. King Charles III is in the United States on a repair job, playing diplomatic handyman and mender for Sir Keir Starmer […]

Ideas of Expulsion: Trump, NATO and Spain

28 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them. Self-styled as […]

The Minilateralist Incentive: A Climate Change Conference in Colombia

26 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for international relations that grew from […]

Defiling Statues of Jesus: Israel’s Counterfeit Outrage at Cultural Vandalism

24 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

They have kept their strategy of cultural and institutional vandalism generously broad in recent campaigns against their adversaries. It therefore came as something of a surprise that much febrile fuss was made about this month’s […]

Space Loos, Lunar Exploitation and Colonial Escapism: The Artemis II Mission

22 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer. Between April […]

Troubled Relations: Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump

21 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin […]

Confused Closures and Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait

19 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest […]

Putting the Calamity Makers in Charge: Anthropic and Claude Mythos Preview

17 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Be wary of a company – any company – who exerts moral muscle as they create software and digital platforms that are injurious and simultaneously lauded for curing that injury. Be especially wary of Anthropic. […]

The Travails of Noma: God Chefs, Brutal Kitchens and the Cult of Fine Dining

14 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds […]

Ceasefire Exemptions and Quarries of Death: Israel’s War on Lebanon

11 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to […]

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