Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Blind and Deaf to AUKUS: Australian Planners and Elusive Submarines

13 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There were never the sharpest negotiators in the room, resembling a facsimile of Bertie Wooster in desperate need of the good advice of his manservant Jeeves. The Australian defence establishment has yet to find a […]

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Bad Beginnings: The End of New START

11 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Future of How awful could it get? The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expired on February 5, terminating an era of arms control and imposed limits on lunatically contrived nuclear weapons programs of […]

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Soothsaying and the Sampling Referendum: The Heralded Rise of One Nation

9 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Nominal realities bedevil politics. They usually find form in polling statistics, airings in the land of pundits and those self-appointed wise people who think they have a measure of the electorate and its various wishes. […]

Lord Mandelson: Trapped in the Epstein Web

6 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

Jeffrey Epstein certainly got around. He moved virally, galloping through the cells of the establishment. What was more, he was permitted to. Dead and buried, the financier, convicted paedophile, sex trafficker, eugenics follower, and the […]

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Precarious Invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s Visit to Australia

4 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 15

Things are getting rather ropey on the invitation of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia on February 8. It came amidst the anguish following the Bondi Beach attacks of December 14, 2025 on attendees […]

Poor Adaptations: The Netherlands, Bonaire and Climate Change Obligations

3 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It was another bead in the string of jurisprudence and case law in climate litigation. Previous sparkling examples include Urgenda Foundation (2019), KlimaSeniorinnen (2024) and the significant Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice […]

Hedonism’s Dance: How the Governing Classes Fell for Jeffrey Epstein

2 February 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 11

How did he generate so much paperwork, traffic and comment? New York financier, mountebank, all purposes conman and dedicated rake that he was, Jeffrey Epstein continues to nag living figures from beyond the grave and […]

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Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma

31 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter […]

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The Preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel

29 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

Australia’s former Prime Minister and faithful Pentecostal Scott Morrison never passes up the chance to express an opinion if it will net him a reward. As one of various politicians of the right (and far […]

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Dancing with European Nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth Antisemitism Conference

29 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Held between January 26 and 27 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center and called Generation Truth, the second international conference on combating antisemitism was a picture of cracking contradictions. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs […]