Binoy Kampmark

While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip and the West Bank remains occupied, Binoy Kampmark reports on United Nations committee resolutions that increase Israel’sisolation.

Remembrance Day has become a form of vulgar conditioning, used by the military-minded to ready the public for the next conflict, argues Binoy Kampmark.

As the Israeli Knesset signalled intent to cripple and banish UNRWA, theSouth African governmentannounced it had filed more evidence of Israel committing genocide to the International Court of Justice. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Instead of restoring trust in the public service and politics, the National Anti-Corruption Commissionhas shown it prefers to be impotent, argues Binoy Kampmark.

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United States troops are being sent to a conflict that resembles a train travelling at high speed, with no risk of stopping, writes Binoy Kampmark.

Two Israeli Defense Force tanks recently destroyed the main gate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, near the Israeli border, and shot at UN soldiers.Binoy Kampmark reports on Israel’s history with the UN.

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The British government will return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, reports Binoy Kampmark. But the caveat is that the joint British-United States military base on Diego Garcia will continue to operate unimpeded for another 99 years.

Peter Greste, who was once a journalist hungry to get the story, now wishes to set “professional” standards for the craft and, problematically, define press freedom in Australia. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Julian Assange addressed ain Strasbourg at which he spoke of legal protections which were ‘not effective in any remotely reasonable time frame’.Binoy Kampmark reports.

The COVID-19pandemic was an accelerant for money-pinching administrative bureaucrats to experiment with eliminating student-teacher classes. Binoy Kampmark reports.

The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre will host a weapons bazaar that ought to be called “The Merchants of Death”. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Britain is suspending a fraction of its arms export licenses with Israel, hoping to appease, or silence, critics of its pro-Israel policy. Binoy Kampmark reports.