Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

People carry the bodies of children in Gaza amid conflict.

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, […]

Donald Trump discussing immigrants' citizenship on a reality show set.

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 […]

Donald Trump with Saudi leaders at Riyadh summit.

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 […]

Donald Trump shaking hands with a Saudi royal in traditional attire.

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 […]

Young boy kisses his smiling mother on the forehead, covering her eyes playfully.

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, […]

A bishop stands smiling next to a text about anti-Trump posts.

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 […]

People walk through a large disaster site with rubble and debris.

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 […]

Two men discussing Ukraine's critical minerals with a backdrop of mining and national flags.

Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

2 May 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 […]

Officials and lawyers in a courtroom for Gaza aid blockage hearing.

The ICJ, Israel and the Gaza Blockade

30 April 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. […]

A man speaks to reporters, denying any wrongdoing against Palestinians.

Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

27 April 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 […]

Pope Francis visits Argentina during a critical political period.

Fallibility, Dirty Wars and Pope Francis I

25 April 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 […]

Illustration of Donald Trump on a US dollar bill.

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

23 April 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

22 April 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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