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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	Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities by Dr. Binoy Kampmark When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he was not acting as an agent untethered from history.
	Pulling out of Germany: Trump Adjusts the Military Furniture by Dr. Binoy Kampmark One noisy theme in the Donald Trump Disruption Show in an otherwise chaotic assemblage of messages has remained fairly constant: winding back US troop commitments. The US
	Coronavirus Criminality: Bolsonaro and the International Criminal Court by Dr. Binoy Kampmark This could be the stuff of fiction. But then again, many legal principles began, at some point or rather, in the sludge of speculation before hardening into legal briefs and prosecutorial documents.

	Julian Assange's Political Indictment: Old Wine in Older Bottles by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The book of hours on Julian Assange is now being written. But the scribes are far from original. Repeated rituals of admin
	Mephistopheles of Wall Street: Goldman Sachs, 1MDB and the Malaysian Settlement by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Malaysia’s politicians were crowing. “We are confident that we are securing more money from Goldman Sachs compared to previous attempts, which were far below
	Climate Change Litigation: The Australian Government Gets Sued by Dr. Binoy Kampmark “It’s time the government told the public about the impact climate change will have on our future and the economy.”Katta O’Donnell, The Guardian, Jul 24, 2020
	Russia, Bountiful Hoaxes and The New York Times by Dr. Binoy Kampmark There is a delicious irony in the Russia Bounty scandal. The Russians, funding the very entity that was financed, at least in a previous incarnation, by the Central Intel
	Revisions on China: Abandoning the Nixon Legacy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark There is little doubt about it. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the puffed-up hawk of the Trump administration, talons at the ready, beak protruding. While the presi
	Zombie Seizures: The Hacking of Twitter by Dr. Binoy Kampmark July 15, 2020. It was a day that will be remembered in the history of social media giant, Twitter. In what is becoming an increasingly quotidian occurrence with such companies, Twitter faced a hack described as “catastrophic”.
	Total Masking: Victoria's Coronavirus Response by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Melbourne. The Victorian Premier turned up for his weekend delivery of coronavirus infections, gruffly delivering the news.
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