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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.
Ballot box with Australian flag background.
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Keeping it Dull: Australia’s Compulsory Voting System

24 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 20
There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia’s electoral system. A special for Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced by veteran journalist Annabel Crabb has done much to swell […]
Face with "Wanted" text overlay in yellow.
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Parochialism, Justice and International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants for Israel

23 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9
The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister Israel Katz, and others, are facing […]
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi.
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Things Happen: Trump, the Crown Prince and Killing Khashoggi

21 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5
The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is at it again. Gulling, wooing, and grinning his way into the establishment of another country, he is greasing palms and making deals. Effusive and flattering of […]
News article about Gaza families' exit.
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Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy

19 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1
According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble of Gaza, is “dedicated to providing essential humanitarian aid, educational opportunities, and sustainable development projects […]
#COP30 UN Climate Change Conference sign.
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Competing for Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest

17 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0
It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event that does more to emit greenhouse gases than it resolves […]
Person focused on computer screen at night.
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Chatbot Unions: The Dawn of AI Marriages

16 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1
What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form. Who is to marry whom; the process of selecting the appropriate breeding partners; the […]
Aerial view of a lush green island.
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Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation

12 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4
Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US, Google and Vocus, an Australian digital infrastructure firm, to deliver the […]
Newspaper headline about Trump suing BBC.
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Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump

11 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3
It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October 2024 Panorama programme of two parts of US […]
Office workers analyzing data on multiple screens.
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Consultants and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick

8 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5
Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better, consultancy firms are now getting paid for work done by non-humans, conventionally called […]
Missile defense system intercepting threats illustration.
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A Question of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome to Australia

7 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4
The world of defence policy is truly on another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project […]
Man analyzing downward stock market graph.
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Targeting Palantir and Nvidia: Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stocks

6 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0
In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be […]
Amazon logo on a glass-walled building.
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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres

3 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is […]
Social media post about nuclear weapons discussion.
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Teasing the Armageddon Fanciers: Trump’s Announcement on Nuclear Testing

1 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4
Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to have nuclear […]
Nuclear explosion and unidentified person side by side.
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Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA

30 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, […]
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Mr President, take our critical minerals: Albanese in the White House

28 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2
The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald […]

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