Binoy Kampmark

• Dr Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

  He writes extensively for various publications, including CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and Eureka Street

  He is currently lecturing at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University.

  Email: bkampmark@gmail.com

  You can follow Binoy on Twitter @bkampmark.

Articles written by Binoy Kampmark (233)

• 12 March 2023 | Media peddling 'Red Alert' rubbish slammed
• 2 March 2023 | Airshow a prop for boys with toys banging war drums
• 20 February 2023 | Albanese Government's secrecy over nuclear weapons grossly irresponsible
• 13 February 2023 | Ballooning paranoia: The China threat hits the skies
• 18 January 2023 | AUKUS nuclear submarine deal set to sink
• 16 January 2023 | ExxonMobil predicted climate change but kept the world burning
• 10 January 2023 | Prince Harry condemned for Afghan shooting party
• 4 January 2023 | Media war metaphors mistake Mother Nature as the real enemy
• 8 December 2022 | Something to chew on: There's nothing more political than food
• 2 December 2022 | Albanese questions pointless legal action against Assange
• 28 November 2022 | Football takes centre stage as World Cup protests fizzle
• 19 November 2022 | The secret wars of the U.S. imperium
• 12 November 2022 | The oddity of micronations
• 8 November 2022 | Rishi Sunak — a Thatcherite in Downing Street
• 1 November 2022 | Virtuous hypocrisy as Socceroos protest Qatar World Cup
• 26 October 2022 | Exit Liz Truss — enter lettuce
• 24 October 2022 | Assange's lawyer urges political action in powerful address
• 20 October 2022 | 'Mastermind' Morrison's fibs and fantasies go global
• 19 October 2022 | Data retention law reform needed to combat serious crime
• 8 October 2022 | Liz Truss' speech does little to assuage abysmal approval ratings
• 5 October 2022 | Dated and fractured: Optus and data protections Down Under
• 27 September 2022 | Santos loses landmark legal battle against Indigenous rights
• 23 September 2022 | Offence by another name: Suppressing anti-royal protest in Britain
• 17 September 2022 | When killers become choosers: Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger
• 13 September 2022 | Beggars in surplus: Australia’s university gangsters
• 10 September 2022 | Dunderheaded diplomacy: Australia’s funding offer to the Solomon Islands
• 8 September 2022 | Press freedom under threat again for whistleblowers
• 3 September 2022 | Letting standards slip: Qantas reels from repeated failures
• 2 September 2022 | It’s all political: Julian Assange appeals his extradition
• 28 August 2022 | Europe dries up from climate change-driven drought
• 21 August 2022 | Rushdie flayed by fellow novelists — assassins still out there
• 12 August 2022 | Universities losing the fight against academic cheating
• 6 August 2022 | Gilding the cage of suburbia: Farewelling Neighbours
• 1 August 2022 | Penal assassination: The gradual effort to kill Julian Assange
• 31 July 2022 | Bunnings and Kmart to face up to 'personal information' investigation
• 26 July 2022 | The Scott Morrison apocalypse is nigh
• 23 July 2022 | AUKUS: The militarisation of Australia
• 18 July 2022 | Get Gota: Holding a war criminal accountable
• 16 July 2022 | Uber files reveal company's malpractice
• 4 July 2022 | Australia needs to stop patronising the Pacific Island states
• 3 July 2022 | 'Top Gun': The thinly disguised Pentagon recruitment drive
• 20 June 2022 | Predictable monstrosity: UK approves Assange extradition
• 18 June 2022 | The dangerous idea of arming all American schools
• 16 June 2022 | Julian Assange and family suffer as unjust detention continues
• 7 June 2022 | Enough is enough: PM Albanese must now intervene for Assange
• 3 June 2022 | Reactionary succession — Peter Dutton, Australia’s new Opposition Leader
• 2 June 2022 | Albanese Government has a chance to stop politicising asylum
• 19 May 2022 | Dutton's defeat a victory for free speech
• 12 May 2022 | Greg Norman's golf tournament 'sportswashing' Saudi Government
• 4 May 2022 | Panic in Kooyong — The threat to the Australian Liberal Party
• 29 April 2022 | Coal canoodling Canavan says net zero is 'all over'
• 28 April 2022 | Hysteria over the Solomon Islands-China security pact
• 12 April 2022 | Human Rights Commission facing downgrade over Morrison appointments
• 9 April 2022 | Morrison's Australia remains servile under AUKUS agreement
• 1 April 2022 | Australia losing Pacific grip as China makes deal with Solomons
• 18 March 2022 | Rotten rulings — Julian Assange's extradition appeal denied
• 11 March 2022 | Morrison's 'arc of autocracy' speech is foreign policy tripe
• 10 March 2022 | The 'she’ll be right' syndrome: Australia’s doomed koalas
• 17 February 2022 | Benefits of Australia's compulsory voting system largely illusory
• 10 February 2022 | U.S. embargo against Cuba turns 60
• 6 February 2022 | Documentarian reveals unethical CIA experiments on children
• 29 January 2022 | Serbia stomps on Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project
• 19 January 2022 | Peter Dutton's war machine cult
• 15 January 2022 | Julian Assange — a thousand days in Belmarsh
• 12 January 2022 | Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight of the Realm
• 4 January 2022 | Coalition lends voices of support for Assange
• 22 December 2021 | Double standards: The UK-Australian Free Trade Agreement
• 14 December 2021 | Assange verdict demonstrates tight grip of U.S. legal system
• 14 December 2021 | Dutton defamation case an affront to free speech
• 11 December 2021 | Beijing Olympics boycott is pointless
• 6 December 2021 | Backing horses: Australia’s questionable Solomon Islands intervention
• 3 December 2021 | Pentagon to expand military presence in Australia against China
• 27 November 2021 | Dutton commits to following U.S. into war for Taiwan
• 15 November 2021 | Scott Morrison has mastered the art of lying
• 2 November 2021 | Assange appeal day two: The CIA and empty assurances
• 30 October 2021 | U.S. appeal against Assange opens
• 18 October 2021 | Billboard mocks Morrison as Australia prepares for COP26
• 17 October 2021 | COVIDSafe app: Missing the mark Coalition-style
• 25 September 2021 | Melbourne earthquake: Shaken, not stirred
• 21 September 2021 | Flashback 2019: Like a fish out of water: Australia's submarine project is a flop
• 17 September 2021 | Nuclear white elephants: Australia’s new submarine deal
• 16 August 2021 | U.S. Government keeps fighting to extradite Julian Assange
• 27 July 2021 | Sydney lockdown protests condemned
• 19 July 2021 | U.S. to appeal to get their hands on Julian Assange
• 17 May 2021 | Commander of United States Strategic Command wants more nukes
• 2 May 2021 | Mike Pezzullo beats the war drum
• 21 March 2021 | Katharine Brisbane's legacy: A critique of our stale arts sector
• 15 March 2021 | McGowan's Labor given huge mandate in WA Election result
• 4 March 2021 | 'Historical' rape and Attorney-General Christian Porter
• 24 February 2021 | Australia palms off alleged Islamic State supporter to New Zealand
• 4 February 2021 | Britain's COVID-19 death toll catastrophic due to government mismanagement
• 9 January 2021 | Julian Assange still not in the clear from prosecution or persecution
• 23 December 2020 | The COVID-19 vaccine and the perils of political advertising
• 16 December 2020 | Selling Australia's offshore detention regime to the world
• 2 December 2020 | The poisonous legacy of robodebt
• 16 November 2020 | The Commonwealth Integrity Commission comes with limitations
• 3 November 2020 | Coronavirus Election: Labor returns in Queensland
• 28 October 2020 | Death taxes and curfews for kids: The Queensland Election
• 20 October 2020 | Gender, power and corruption: The case of Gladys Berejiklian
• 28 September 2020 | Julian Assange’s mental health: Diagnosis, autism and risk at the Old Bailey
• 30 August 2020 | Brexit ho: Tony Abbott’s trade deal role
• 12 August 2020 | 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms race isn't over
• 1 August 2020 | Coronavirus unveils all: Aged care and the Victorian crisis
• 7 July 2020 | The Eden-Monaro ballot tryst
• 30 June 2020 | Moselmane, Liu, Chinese spies and AFP raids
• 22 June 2020 | Labor/Liberal party branch stacking nothing new
• 3 June 2020 | The crimes of 'robodebt'
• 15 May 2020 | Morrison delusional about snapback illusion
• 21 April 2020 | Wagga Wagga ditches Kunming sister city over COVID-19 'death and destruction'
• 10 April 2020 | Praise and regret for the casual worker
• 1 April 2020 | Nationalism takes hold in Australia and elsewhere amid COVID-19
• 14 March 2020 | Australian universities suffer job losses over coronavirus concerns
• 1 March 2020 | Defence digs in as Julian Assange fights extradition
• 17 February 2020 | Coronavirus, Chinese students and the university cash quagmire
• 4 February 2020 | Breaking ties: Britain finally Brexits
• 14 January 2020 | The Scott Morrison bushfire response makeover
• 7 January 2020 | How the Coalition Government has been ineffective in dealing with our fire crisis
• 18 December 2019 | Morrison's bush fire problem
• 6 December 2019 | The repeal of Medevac legislation sets an ugly precedent
• 28 November 2019 | The politicians awake: Australia calls for Julian Assange
• 25 November 2019 | Does the latest Westpac challenge really shock?
• 20 November 2019 | Madness over secondary boycotts: The Morrison cult of productivity
• 31 October 2019 | The importance of leaving Uluru alone
• 20 October 2019 | Morrison's medevac madness
• 2 October 2019 | Morrison's antics: Australia apparently sides with U.S. in China trade war
• 23 September 2019 | Tony Abbott spruiks Western civilisation on the world stage
• 16 September 2019 | Gladys Liu, race cards and foreign influence
• 7 September 2019 | Cruelties unconfined: Humanising refugees and the Biloela Tamil family
• 2 September 2019 | Why the Counter Terrorism (TEO) Bill is about political, not legal, expediency
• 28 August 2019 | Cat and mouse: Pell, child abuse and the Court of Appeal
• 13 August 2019 | Freedom of speech: The powerful chill of the Banerji High Court decision
• 25 July 2019 | Lunar narratives: Landing on the Moon, politics and the Cold War
• 17 July 2019 | Like a fish out of water: Australia's submarine project is a flop
• 2 July 2019 | Christopher Pyne and the Canberra revolving door
• 22 June 2019 | Peter Dutton's Medevac gripe
• 12 June 2019 | Intimidating Parliament: The Michael Pezzullo Formula
• 5 June 2019 | Warring against sources: The security state and public interest journalism
• 25 May 2019 | The Espionage Act and Julian Assange: U.S. Justice Department expands its case
• 25 May 2019 | Scomo, Trump and the Queensland factor
• 14 May 2019 | Melissa Price and the Coalition's climate change denying non-environmental policy
• 10 May 2019 | The obscurity of consensus: Refugees in the Australian Election
• 4 May 2019 | The paranoia of partnership: The ALP shuns Green support
• 27 April 2019 | A question of influence: Clive Palmer, the UAP and preferences
• 15 April 2019 | Assange and the National Security State: Criminalising investigative journalism
• 10 April 2019 | Christmas Island shows: Refugee props for Scott Morrison
• 27 March 2019 | Returning Jihadis: What happens to the families no one wants?
• 8 March 2019 | A matter of borders: Julian Burnside appears for IA
• 28 February 2019 | The conviction and fall of Cardinal George Pell
• 22 February 2019 | The eternal market: Refugees in Scomoland
• 12 February 2019 | The return of Hakeem al-Araibi: Human rights and the sport factor
• 7 February 2019 | Disaster narratives: Flooding in Townsville
• 27 January 2019 | Fear and loathing in San Francisco: The public transport system
• 28 December 2018 | #6 TOP IA STORY OF 2018: Dutton's 'venal' policies turn on our closest neighbour, NZ
• 21 December 2018 | Counterfeit humanitarianism: Bill Shorten at Labor’s National Conference
• 14 December 2018 | White elephants of the sea: The French-Australian submarine agreement
• 7 December 2018 | Medical evidence steps up campaign to end Nauru
• 28 November 2018 | Above the zeitgeist: Banking corruption as normality
• 23 November 2018 | Superfluous to law enforcement: Peter Dutton’s move on encryption
• 15 November 2018 | Exploiting death: Scott Morrison, Pellegrini’s and Sisto Malaspina
• 7 November 2018 | The marginal Prime Minister: The ScoMo electoral express
• 1 November 2018 | University funding suffers from political interference
• 24 October 2018 | Using children: The national abuse apology and Nauru
• 18 October 2018 | The vice of Wentworth: White motions and Jerusalem blues
• 12 October 2018 | The Sydney Opera House: Beauty, dignity and class have a price
• 28 September 2018 | A plague on democracy — Murdoch, Turnbull and demagoguery
• 10 September 2018 | Nigel Farage in Australia
• 27 August 2018 | Renting democracy: Shutting down Australia’s Parliament
• 14 August 2018 | The #BankingRC: Competition, regulation and Australian corporations
• 30 July 2018 | Super Saturday: The 'Insiders' by-election scramble
• 25 July 2018 | Dutton's 'venal' policies turn on closest neighbour — New Zealand
• 12 July 2018 | Adoration and demonisation: Plastic bags, hysterics and a long romance
• 5 July 2018 | Punishing the patriots: Australia, bugging and East Timor
• 27 June 2018 | Australia, China and the geopolitics of internet connectivity
• 14 June 2018 | The Kim-Trump summit: The vassal’s view Down Under
• 9 June 2018 | 1868 Indigenous XI and the colonising game of cricket
• 31 May 2018 | Selling private lives: The Barnaby Joyce story
• 22 May 2018 | Modern family or royal wedding madness?
• 14 May 2018 | Starving amidst plenty: Australia’s oil dependency problem
• 1 May 2018 | Donald Trump, #QandA and the media question
• 27 April 2018 | The Anzac Day legend — and myth
• 19 April 2018 | Panel show by numbers: ABC Q&A, Syria and all the usual suspects
• 9 April 2018 | The Monash Forum and energy policy: Making the most of the 30th Newspoll
• 28 March 2018 | Australian Cricket ball tampering: The defence of context
• 20 March 2018 | #BatmanVotes: Machinations behind the by-election
• 12 March 2018 | Donald Trump, Australia and U.S. tariffs: 'Ironclad' exemptions for security
• 7 March 2018 | Deporting the innocents: The UK’s forced child migration program and Australia
• 27 February 2018 | Politicising Intelligence: Dutton, Pezzullo and the Department of Home Affairs
• 18 February 2018 | Crime Stoppers and the cost of community vigilantism
• 9 February 2018 | Foreign interference laws and the Australian media
• 30 January 2018 | The Turnbull Government's latest brainwave: Let's make more weapons
• 22 December 2017 | Flinders Street attack: Media and Twits pull the terrorism trigger
• 10 December 2017 | The failings of purity: The ALP and the dual citizenship crisis
• 30 November 2017 | Hypocrisies of influence: Sam Dastyari and the China obsession
• 26 November 2017 | The end of majoritarianism? The #QldVotes election result
• 16 November 2017 | Weaponising Section 44: The Australian Constitution and the demise of politics
• 10 November 2017 | QUEENSLAND ELECTION: Tote bags, turnarounds and the Adani mine
• 9 October 2017 | Gaoling children: Australia’s latest method of 'keeping people safe'
• 11 September 2017 | War, US military bases and the IPAN Conference
• 29 August 2017 | Starvation and attrition: Dutton, asylum seekers and 'un-Australian' lawyers
• 24 August 2017 | Pauline Hanson's burqa ban stunt: The historical context
• 17 August 2017 | Exposing Barnaby Joyce: The heroes of Section 44
• 15 August 2017 | The vassal of the Pacific: Turnbull's blind support for US-North Korea conflict
• 4 August 2017 | The long crucifixion of Gillian Triggs
• 1 August 2017 | Plane bomb plots, airport security and elaborate kitchen appliances
• 31 July 2017 | The Turnbull Government's interminable US refugee deal and broken promises
• 26 July 2017 | Slaying in Minneapolis: Justine Damond, shooting cultures and race
• 24 July 2017 | From Spicy to The Mooch: A farewell to Sean Spicer
• 21 July 2017 | Giving up liberty: Turnbull's Home Affairs Department plan
• 18 July 2017 | Turnbull's increased 'terror' defence force powers an insidious overreach
• 13 July 2017 | Patriotism, witch hunts and Donald Trump Jr
• 9 July 2017 | Tensions in Hamburg: The G20 fractures
• 13 June 2017 | Turnbull's tougher terror laws: Sniffing the glue of populism and fear
• 3 June 2017 | Margaret Court and the mostly worthless opinions of sportspeople
• 31 May 2017 | Deviant diva: Schapelle Corby returns to Australia
• 30 May 2017 | Barging through NATO: Donald Trump in Europe
• 23 May 2017 | Julian Assange: Swedish investigation dropped but war just commencing
• 19 May 2017 | The release of Chelsea Manning
• 13 May 2017 | Days of illusion: Donald Trump’s first 100
• 26 April 2017 | The vilification of Yassmin Abdel-Magied: Anzac as apologia and religion
• 14 April 2017 | Malcolm Turnbull tries to deal Afghan Hazara refugees back to danger
• 3 March 2017 | Global populism and the One Nation fever
• 24 February 2017 | From rights to repentance: Norma McCorvey and Roe v Wade
• 21 February 2017 | Fears at Munich: The Mattis pitch on NATO
• 3 February 2017 | Trumping Australia’s refugee deal
• 2 February 2017 | UK Fake News Inquiry: Old wine in new bottles
• 31 January 2017 | Chaos at the Airports: Lawyers stymie Trump’s #MuslimBan Executive Order
• 21 January 2017 | The birth of Trumpland: Notes on an Inauguration
• 16 January 2017 | Dossiers and make believe: The CIA, Trump and unverified news
• 8 July 2014 | Refoulement most foul: Returning Tamils to their persecutors
• 23 April 2014 | Tony Abbott, the NDH and the Liberal Party's fascist affair
• 8 April 2014 | Plagiarising foreign policy: Australia, Ukraine, Russia and sanctions
• 1 December 2012 | Geo-engineering and mad scientists
• 22 November 2012 | The power of the hunger strike