Articles by Binoy Kampmark
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False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
19 Dec 2023 – The sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences is a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows how a worthless activity can provide assurance that something worthwhile was done. Always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists.
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The Day UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Becomes Relevant Israel Calls for His Resignation
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The relevance of a UN Secretary-General depends on his degree of controversy. Dag Hammarskjöld was murdered over his intervention in Congo, 1961. The big powers like to render such figures impotent, if not insignificant. Thus, it was refreshing to hear the current UNSG speak truth to the powers that be. BRAVO!!
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Assange Be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – In the proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown its vengeful impulses. Given the 17 charges he faces from the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.
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A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, and return to repeat their sins.
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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Launched on 30 Nov 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is open to the curious, the lazy and the opportunistic. In January, the Manchester Evening News reported that a student asked the bot to put together a 2,000-word essay on social policy. Within 20 minutes, the work was done.
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Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – This is an ever-broadening war of the West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental proxy convinced it will win. Efforts to limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
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The Mauling of Tennis Player Novak Djokovic
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Tennis World Number One Novak Djokovic’s treatment by Australian authorities, and his subsequent detention as an unlawful arrival despite being granted a visa to participate in the Australian Open, had the hallmarks of oppression and incompetent vulgarity; another example of provincial opportunism and crass stupidity.
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Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – The lockdowns – six in total – came with overly vigilant threatened and threatening police, punitive powers of hefty magnitude, mask mandates, curfews, limits on recreation time and demarcated areas of travel.
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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence chairman Eric Schmidt–technical advisor to Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, which he was formerly CEO of: “Never before in my lifetime have I been more worried that we will soon be displaced by a rival or more aware of what second place means for our economy, our security, and the future of our nation.”
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Findings of Torture: The UN Rapporteur and Julian Assange
Dr. Binoy Kampmark – Global Research,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2019 – Another crude and sad chapter, yet more evidence of a system’s vengeance against its challengers. While some in the cynical, narcissistic press corps still find little to comment his case, the movement to highlight his fate, and the extra-territorial vengeance of the United States, grows. Often reviled and dismissed as ineffectual if not irrelevant, the United Nations has offered Assange some measure of protection through its articulations and findings.
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Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Since the fall of 2016, up to 21 diplomats at the US embassy have been affected by what is now being considered an attack–previously deemed as “incidents” … “Ultrasonic waves, beyond the acoustic capacity of humans, can be broadcast with an amplifier, and the device does not need to be large, or used inside or outside the house.” Havana has expressed consternation at the moves by the Trump administration, but is still hopeful in cooperation.
→ read full articleNauru, Refugees, and the Australian Torture Complex
Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
The Four Corners program was informed by a significant Amnesty International report, aptly titled Island of Despair, which was released on Monday [17 Oct] night. That report examined the rather ghoulish extent the Australian government, with its Nauru satraps, has been going about the business of “processing” boat arrivals.
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Binoy Kampmark | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
The Northern Territory, Torture, and Australia’s Detention Disease – It was an image that would not have been out of place in the sickly procession of pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay during the ill-fated and misnamed war on terror. Here was a young man, seated, strapped in and euphemistically “restrained,” verging on catatonic; on his head, a suffocating bag.
→ read full articleAbout the TTIP Leaks
Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice,
9 May 2016
6 May 2016 – The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked. The document continues to flicker, and it will take more than Gallic opposition, Germanic scepticism, and general European stubbornness, to sink it.
→ read full articleNauru: Suicide and Punishment
Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice,
25 Apr 2016
Nauru has ceased being a country of any worth. It has assumed value as a (non)processing centre for asylum seekers and refugees Australia does not want. A camp designed for criminalising and for condemning, it has become the cruelest exemplar of treatment of refugees. News emerged from the Nauru detention centre of “suicide pacts”. “There was a group of teenage girls, there was a group of fathers, there was a group of mothers.”
→ read full articleThe Pantomime of Democracy: Portugal’s Coup against Anti-Austerity
Binoy Kampmark - Global Research,
26 Oct 2015
The combined Left bloc won 50.7 percent of the vote (122 seats), while the conservative premier Right-wing coalition gained 38.5 percent – a loss of 28 seats. One would have to be a rather brave and foolish individual to let the latter form government. This, in fact, is what Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the country’s Right-wing president, did.
→ read full articleFinancial Terrorism: The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
27 Oct 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation.
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Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
The Intercept was already getting the intelligence community excited with its revelations that the NSA decided to mimic inspector Google. The revelations have a few implications, the most obvious one confirming the transition between intelligence work and the policing function.
→ read full articleThe Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: Out with God’s Rottweiler
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
18 Feb 2013
As head of the Doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith, the then Cardinal Ratzinger ordered that Fr. Lawrence Murphy, who had sexually assaulted at least 200 children at St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, leave the ministry. All to the good, except that Murphy was not defrocked let alone punished or prosecuted via formal legal channels. Besides, no one was particularly interested in listening to deaf victims.
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