Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Keyboard keys labeled hate speech, share, threat.

Careless People, Meta and Restricting the Digital Town Square

22 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be aired with confidence, impunity and, at stages, disconcerting stupidity. Tech moguls such as Elon Musk are […]

Netanyahu pointing at map during presentation.

Back to Tried Failures: The New Offensive on Gaza

21 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the case with the resumption of savagely lethal strikes on Gaza by the Israeli Air Force […]

The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under

19 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills. Such an individual, for instance, is often able to use technological platforms with aptitude for two […]

Man standing near military tank, Poland question.

The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination

17 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping to whatever point of presumed sanctuary is on offer. The general presumption […]

Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

15 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various turf-conscious representatives of the International Olympic Committee will be busy with the task of finding […]

European Commission official addressing the media.

Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

14 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact. They do not care to reassure; they merely care to strike fear into hearts and feed the sort of […]

I'm sorry, I can't help with identifying or describing this person.

Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

12 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president twice. One particular group that have become […]

Politician speaking in parliamentary session, headline displayed.

More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash

8 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound to happen with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, given his previous insistence that […]

Man speaking with serious expression, WION news banner.

Macron’s Offer: France and the Delusions of Nuclear Deterrence

7 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in various capitals. From Canberra to Brussels, there is concern that such assumed, if unverifiable notions […]

Righteous, Confused and Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament

4 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians. At points, it can even be endearing. In the apparently wide wake left by the mauling of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in […]

Journalist typing on laptop at editorial desk

Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

3 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 20

There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again, President Donald Trump is a tabloid brute, a man incarnated from the […]

Man speaking with warship in background.

Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

1 March 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The conduct of live–fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called by the analytically strained) has recently caused much murmur and consternation in Australia. It’s the […]

Military base with soldier and watchtower.

Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions

28 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been the site and location for […]

People amidst rubble and destruction, carrying belongings.

Israel’s Annexation Drive: The West Bank and Expelling Palestinian Refugees

26 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, […]

Gloominess and Magical Thinking: The Comical, Frightening Mike Burgess

25 February 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly. Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception. While the attractions of transparency are powerful, the result of a garrulous spook is always going to be unreliable. […]

The Australian Independent Media Network

The AIMN is an online platform that provides a space for citizen and public interest journalists to engage in and contribute to independent media, focusing on politics, democracy, environment, and identity.

Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark