Binoy Kampmark

@WikiLeaks Party Senate Candidate with Julian Assange 2013. Contributing editor @NatCounterPunch. Columnist @TheMandarinAU https://t.co/3nEW9MdafG

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Articles

Hastie’s Sensible Advice: More Transparency On US Forces In Australia - OpEd

2 days ago | eurasiareview.com | Binoy Kampmark

It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition minister for home affairs, had been moved by an idea: greater transparency was needed regarding the US military buildup in Australia. It was an inspiration overdue by some decades, but it was worthwhile in its unaccustomed sensibility.
Western hypocrisy calls for Iran to de-escalate, not retaliate

3 days ago | independentaustralia.net | Binoy Kampmark

In the upside-down logic of Western diplomacy, bombing is peace and retaliation is provocation, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark. DE-ESCALATION has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals.
Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran and Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense - Global Research

5 days ago | globalresearch.ca | Binoy Kampmark

Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. It can adopt an absurd visage that renders the subject comical and lacking in credibility. That subject is the European Union, that curious collective of cobbled, sometimes erratic nation states that has pretensions of having a foreign policy, hints at having a security policy and yearns for a cohering enemy.
Directive to Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good

5 days ago | modernghana.com | Binoy Kampmark

De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution or seeks to avenge (dramatic) or merely overcome (mildly) a state of affairs imposed upon them.
Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran and Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense

6 days ago | modernghana.com | Binoy Kampmark

Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of outfits. It can adopt an absurd visage that renders the subject comical and lacking in credibility. That subject is the European Union, that curious collective of cobbled, sometimes erratic nation states that has pretensions of having a foreign policy, hints at having a security policy and yearns for a cohering enemy.
Skewed diplomacy: Europe, Iran and unhelpful nuclear nonsense - Dr Binoy Kampmark

6 days ago | qoshe.com | Binoy Kampmark
Self-Defence and Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams of Regime Change

1 week ago | intpolicydigest.org | Binoy Kampmark

These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in the open and before the presses, the head of state of one country is openly advocating murdering another head of state before news outlets with little reaction. Lawbreaking has become chic, and Israel has taken the lead.
Shelling the Aid Seekers: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Project in Gaza

1 week ago | modernghana.com | Binoy Kampmark

It’s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing and states of desperation. They do so casually or indifferently or maliciously. True, they might get the odd militant here and there, but the supposedly professional Israeli Defense Forces is rather good at killing civilians.
Shelling the Aid Seekers: Israel’s ‘Humanitarian’ Project in Gaza - Dr Binoy Kampmark

1 week ago | qoshe.com | Binoy Kampmark
The end of deterrence, or the beginning?

1 week ago | eurekastreet.com.au | Binoy Kampmark

Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, including the targeted killings of its military leadership and the scientific community (the latter labelled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Hitler’s nuclear team’), are based on a few sketchy presumptions: that Iran had reached a stage where it could accelerate a weapons production program to build a nuclear device and, in having such a device, would use it specifically against Israel either directly, or through its...