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About Dr Binoy Kampmark
Dr Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed on Twitter at @bkampmark.
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Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

March 12, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

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 […]

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

March 8, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

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 […]

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

March 7, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

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 […]

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Righteous, Confused and Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament

March 4, 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 […]

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Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

March 3, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 21

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 […]

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Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

March 1, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

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 […]

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Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions

February 28, 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 […]

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

February 26, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

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, […]

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Gloominess and Magical Thinking: The Comical, Frightening Mike Burgess

February 25, 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. […]

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Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale

February 23, 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged unexpected. The same organisers will claim to be open minded, […]

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