Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Sleepwalking on the Money: Inequality, Surveillance and the Cashless Society

19 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such silly inconveniences as carrying cash and scouting for a […]

Urban devastation with collapsed buildings and debris.

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

15 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

What matters peace if it permits killing, maiming and destroying the infrastructure of a society supposedly once at war? This is the situation facing Gaza as the occupying Israeli forces go about their business making […]

I don't know who this is. Greenland landscape background.

Spectral Threats: China, Russia and Trump’s Greenland Rationale

14 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

The Trump administration’s mania about Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, is something to behold. Its untutored thuggery, its brash assertiveness, and the increasingly strident threats to either use force, bully Denmark into a sale […]

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Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil

11 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. […]

Parliament House with multiple Israeli flags flying.

The Politics of Premature Adjudication: The Bondi Royal Commission

9 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Royal commissions are often held to confirm the obvious and squeak for modest change. They offer no binding remedies, have no compellable powers against the government of the day, and can, despite claiming to be independent, […]

North Korea nuclear forces headline and missile.

Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent

8 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges […]

Collage of newspaper headlines about Iraq war.

A Shameful Sham: The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels and Maduro

7 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone to fantasies. President George W. Bush was well versed in baseless existential threats stemming from […]

Protest sign reading "Close Pine Gap" held.

Confronting Genocide with Civil Disobedience: The Pine Gap Protests and Gaza

6 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it […]

Social media post about Venezuela developments.

Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction

5 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 26

On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term […]

Donald Trump speaking at a press conference.

The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela

4 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism of the prattling cowboy. There was […]

Politician signing document, Somaliland recognition question.

Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland

2 January 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

For a country so upset about recognition being afforded peoples under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a […]

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Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments and Khashoggi

31 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler […]

A Thesis Confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz and the Israel Lobby

29 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh […]

Crowd celebrating England's cricket victory.

The Charge of the Padded Brigade: England in Australia

28 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature. The cricket between England and Australia in this, the 2025-6 Ashes series, was a recreational coke […]

Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union and Free Speech

26 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of sanctions upon individuals deemed hostile to free speech. On December 23, the US State […]

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