Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on topics of international security and modern history, and is currently lecturing in Modern History at the University of Queensland. I blog at Oz Moses (http://ozmoses.blogspot.com/)


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	The Brutality of "Bulldozer Justice" in India by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It looks all too eerily similar as a method: the expulsion of individuals from their home, the demolition of said home and the punishing of entire families. All excused b
	Predictable Monstrosities: Priti Patel Approves Assange's Extradition by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The only shock about the UK Home Secretary’s decision regarding Julian Assange was that it did not come sooner. In April, Chief Magistrate Senior District Judge Pau
	Fighting the First UK-Rwandan Refugee Flight by Dr. Binoy Kampmark June 10 bore witness to a valiant effort on the part of refugee groups and a trade union to stop what promises to be the first journey of many as part of the UK-Rwanda plan.

	Dear Times and Costly Cricket: Australia's Sri Lankan Tour by Dr. Binoy Kampmark For a country experiencing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, the picture of a touring team pampered and fussed over might cause consternation.
	George W. Bush, Freudian Confessions and Foiled Assassinations by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Death, remarked Gore Vidal about Truman Capote’s passing, was a good career move. The novelist Saki also considered the good qualities of shuffling off the mortal c
	Platinum Jubilees and Republican Questions by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The platinum jubilee will bore and cause some to yawn. It might certainly agitate the republican spleen in the fourteen countries where Queen Elizabeth II remains a constitutional head of state.
	Turkey Spoils the Big NATO Party by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Complacency has been the hallmark of NATO expansion. Over time, it has even become a form of derision, notably directed against Russia.
	The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Societies generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices. Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient number of individuals are profi
	The British Art of Black Propaganda by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Never underestimate the potency, and deceptive malice, of the British political mind. In responding to the threat posed by Imperial Germany during the First World War, th
	Peter Dutton's Defamation Defeat by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The occasions when an activist, writer or commentator triumph over defamation lawsuits launched by a thin-skinned politician are rare in Australia. When it comes to matte
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