Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire – OpEd
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire
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Author: Binoy Kampmark
Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected]
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Articles by Binoy Kampmark :
Situation Critical: UNRWA And Its Continued Operations – OpEd
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end
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AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking – OpEd
A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia,
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Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo – OpEd
On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two
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Arresting And Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests – OpEd
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of
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Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma – OpEd
“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that
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Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalize – OpEd
It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions
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Frail Egos And Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, The United States And Invading Iraq – OpEd
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 –
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Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators – OpEd
Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance,
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Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports And Israel – OpEd
While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can
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