Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Great Fleecing Tournament: Pricing, Problems and the 2026 FIFA World Cup

17 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing body of world football, subpar service and offerings promise to feature. As gulled fans, corporate […]

Politics

Exiting the Oil Cartel: The United Arab Emirates Leaves OPEC

15 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without […]

Epic Interruptus: The Iranian Snare and American Defeat

13 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in […]

Caveat Canvas: ShinyHunters Hacks the Education Sector

12 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

They make you do it – they, in this case, being the folly-fouled leaders of educational institutions – because it’s all in the name of organisational efficiency, productivity and purpose. Engage what is often erroneously […]

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Ted Turner: The Devil Behind Cable News

12 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotty descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist, the yachtsman, sporting proprietor and […]

Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom

8 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The waxwork figures of the Pentagon recently glowed with excitement with the announcement that the US military would be finally called upon to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. With the ceasefire between Teheran and Washington […]

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The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy and Abduction on the High Seas

6 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

They have become adept flouters of international law. When doing so, they justify such violations with streaky, anaemic interpretations of self-defence and security. The Global Sumud Flotilla’s encore effort to break the Gaza blockade, which […]

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Dangers to the Fourth Estate: The 2026 World Press Freedom Index

5 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Scribblers, scribes, authors and publishers – all of these are facing ever worsening conditions in pursuing their work in battling the goons of secrecy and impunity. The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index […]

Brussels, Russia and the Venice Biennale: Art as Politics and Hypocrisy

4 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves. Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of times, their judgment likely to be swayed by factions, […]

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Show Me the Money: A Loutish Administration Confronts a Craven Congress

1 May 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed […]

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Starmer’s Talking Points: King Charles III Visits Washington

29 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

He can hardly be blamed for being given the brief by his Prime Minister. King Charles III is in the United States on a repair job, playing diplomatic handyman and mender for Sir Keir Starmer […]

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Ideas of Expulsion: Trump, NATO and Spain

28 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them. Self-styled as […]

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The Minilateralist Incentive: A Climate Change Conference in Colombia

26 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for international relations that grew from […]

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Defiling Statues of Jesus: Israel’s Counterfeit Outrage at Cultural Vandalism

24 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

They have kept their strategy of cultural and institutional vandalism generously broad in recent campaigns against their adversaries. It therefore came as something of a surprise that much febrile fuss was made about this month’s […]

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Space Loos, Lunar Exploitation and Colonial Escapism: The Artemis II Mission

22 April 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer. Between April […]

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