Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo

10 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the US naval facility of Guantánamo Bay. Notice of this repatriation was […]

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Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests

8 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For […]

Was the Cold War avoidable? George Kennan.

Take Your Money and Shove it: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia’s Economic Trauma

7 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on no government in Russia.” (Peter J. Stavrakis, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, 1993). Diplomatic […]

Join the Army; Travel to Exotic, Distant Lands; and Radicalise

6 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions are meant to cope and cure the condition, not foster it. Like some errant form, […]

Frail Egos and Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, the United States and Invading Iraq

4 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for historians of Australian history each new year – has been given […]

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Ignoring a Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria and Courting Dictators

3 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance, they will wander, leaving their principles aside like unwanted impediments. This was certainly the case […]

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Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports and Israel

2 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can surprise. The evolving body of law stripping back the immunity of heads of state for […]

Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question

31 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents. Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching […]

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Greenland Redux: Trump and America’s Continuing Obsession

30 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways. Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. Territories are pinched by means of arms or stolen through sham contracts and undertakings. […]

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Sinking Mike Pompeo: Tucker Carlson, Assange and Trump

28 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Mike Pompeo’s role in the first Trump administration as both director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Secretary of State will be forever associated with the venom and desperation he had in targeting Julian […]

Suing Antony Blinken: The US State Department, Israel and the Leahy Law

27 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

On December 17, a number of Palestinians alleging human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) against the US Secretary of […]

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Jesting on the Environment: Australian Mining Gets a Present

26 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Mining magnates seem to have it all. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to accommodate their wishes and whims. […]

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Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark