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Dr Binoy Kampmark

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Executing with prejudice: Israel’s death penalty law

Executing with prejudice: Israel’s death penalty law

It was celebrated with ghoulish delight.  On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an...

yesterday 20

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Closing air spaces and cracking alliances: Trump’s growing problem with allies

Closing air spaces and cracking alliances: Trump’s growing problem with allies
thursday 30

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The Iran War: A Great Carbon Emitter

The Iran War: A Great Carbon Emitter

Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists.  Attacks on...

30.03.2026 40

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Auguries of failure: Israel invades Lebanon, yet again

Auguries of failure: Israel invades Lebanon, yet again
27.03.2026 50

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More Parleying Nonsense: Trump, Iran and Promised Negotiations

More Parleying Nonsense: Trump, Iran and Promised Negotiations

It’s almost not worth considering, but precisely because it comes from the White House, the mad manoeuvrings and silly airings of the US President...

24.03.2026 60

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Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the Iran War and the Antisemitism Smear

Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals.  As a combat veteran...

21.03.2026 60

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No naval escort for Trump: US allies and the Strait of Hormuz

With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but leave of everything...

20.03.2026 50

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Opportunistic Asylum: How Australia Exploited the Iranian Women’s Football Team

When it comes to asylum seekers, the Australian political machine has prided itself on using cruelty and a purposely obtuse understanding of...

18.03.2026 60

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Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock

The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the...

17.03.2026 50

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Costly and Depleting: The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury

The big drain on military resources has begun.  A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back,...

15.03.2026 50

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Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz

“The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic...

13.03.2026 70

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Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War

11.03.2026 60

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Starmer’s self-defence fudge: The UK’s growing involvement in the Iran War

10.03.2026 70

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Loony bin rationales: The continuing war on Iran

Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues.  The rationale for this illegal...

06.03.2026 70

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Going native in the Trump jungle: How it became legal to attack Iran

The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump.  While...

03.03.2026 80

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Roguish justifications: The apologists for the attack on Iran

February 28, 2026.  Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter.  A gross violation of international law.  As usual, a violation...

02.03.2026 70

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Mendacious rationales: The lies behind Operation Lion’s Roar

Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so...

01.03.2026 90

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Biblical Writ and Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson and Israel

It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible.  When a text advocating...

26.02.2026 90

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Punishing language: Queensland’s Antisemitism Bill

In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an...

21.02.2026 80

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Not forgetting the victims: Club Epstein and crimes against humanity

With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey...

19.02.2026 100

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Objective Fallacy: Eulogies on the Passing of the Law Based International Order

The eulogies are starting to wear thin.  The lamented passing of the rules and law-based order only makes sense to those who believed that such rules...

14.02.2026 80

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Bad Beginnings: The End of New START

10.02.2026 60

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Mandelson: Trapped in the Epstein web

06.02.2026 60

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Precarious invitations: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia

04.02.2026 70

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Dooming the Chagos deal: The Diego Garcia dilemma

31.01.2026 80

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The preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel

29.01.2026 70

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Dancing with European nationalism: Israel’s Generation Truth antisemitism conference

28.01.2026 90

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The gangster’s brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega and Maduro

27.01.2026 50

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Artificial Intelligence, crime and prisons: Mahmood revisits the panopticon

24.01.2026 70

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Carney at Davos: Removing that sign in the window

22.01.2026 90

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Gaza vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace

20.01.2026 70

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A cruel truce: Israel’s ongoing demolition of Gaza

15.01.2026 80

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Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

13.01.2026 100

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Candid imperialism: Trump, racketeering and Venezuelan oil

11.01.2026 80

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A shameful sham: The US Justice Department, fake cartels and Maduro

07.01.2026 100

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Confronting genocide with civil disobedience: The Pine Gap protests and Gaza

06.01.2026 80

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Venal reactions: US allies validate Maduro’s abduction

05.01.2026 100

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The Don-roe Doctrine in action: Trump’s gangster intervention in Venezuela

04.01.2026 70

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Secessionist pantomime: Israel recognises Somaliland

02.01.2026 60

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A thesis confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz and the Israel lobby

29.12.2025 150

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

26.12.2025 40

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Indiscriminate suppression: Attacking pro-Palestinian protests after the Bondi killings

24.12.2025 60

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Using the slain: Israel exploits the Bondi Beach shootings

17.12.2025 100

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Perfectly appropriate: Trump, Infantino and the FIFA Peace Prize

10.12.2025 50

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A ceasefire in name only: Gaza’s prolonged purgatory

02.12.2025 40

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Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban

30.11.2025 70

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Things happen: Trump, the Crown Prince and killing Khashoggi

21.11.2025 40

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Clandestine cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli policy

20.11.2025 30

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Reviving UNRWA’s remit: The ICJ, Israel and humanitarian aid in Gaza

23.10.2025 70

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Worlds extinguished: Hostage returns, central casting and the Gaza ceasefire

14.10.2025 50

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