Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

20 April 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 […]

Israeli leader and soldiers in security zone.

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

18 April 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 […]

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

16 April 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

15 April 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 […]

Olfactive Implications: Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

14 April 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

11 April 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 […]

Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

9 April 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

8 April 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

6 April 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 […]

Closed for Business: The Oddities of Trump’s Tariffs

4 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would spring up from rust belt […]

For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention

2 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be enlisted in the making of policy. The latter can be particularly dangerous, notably when readying […]

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

1 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. […]

Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

28 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 12

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly bloody fashion and resumed bombing of Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. […]

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Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy

26 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 15

Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better. The Iron Dome shield vision of US President Donald […]

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Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

24 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the outgoing president, Thomas Bach. Representatives gathered in Greece at Costa Navarino, to make […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark