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Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience.  Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious...

yesterday 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Off To War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review – OpEd

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience.  Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in

tuesday 10

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Thieves In The Kitchen: The Stealing Of Recipes – OpEd

Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved.  Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. 

02.06.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – OpEd

What a nasty thing it has turned out to be.  It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets

01.06.2025 9

Eurasia Review

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Roads To War: The EU’s Security Action For Europe Fund – OpEd

As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following

29.05.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor

On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist...

29.05.2025 10

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Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan And Operation Sindoor – OpEd

On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the

28.05.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television...

22.05.2025 10

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The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots – OpEd

The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced.  Following relentless airstrikes

21.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants And Reality Television – OpEd

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the

21.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Rehabilitation And Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump And Sanctions – OpEd

Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays.  It proves rewarding.  It establishes states and reconstitutes others. ...

19.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Trump, Planes And The Arabian Gulf Tour – OpEd

They seemed made for each other.  A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from

16.05.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by the...

15.05.2025 10

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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections On Mother’s Day – OpEd

Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off.  Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way. 

13.05.2025 2

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White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it.  It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first...

12.05.2025 20

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Bratty Royal: Prince Harry And Bespoke Security Protection – OpEd

It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble.  But being unedifying has become something of a

09.05.2025 8

Eurasia Review

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Expulsion And Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan – OpEd

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into...

07.05.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes and Labor Triumphs

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got to work.  If...

07.05.2025 10

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Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes And Labor Triumphs – OpEd

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got

06.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Fantasy And Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal – OpEd

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen

02.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

The ICJ, Israel And The Gaza Blockade – OpEd

The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done

30.04.2025 40

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

Universities are in a bind.  As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into...

28.04.2025 6

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Yale, Ben-Gvir And Banning Palestinian Groups – OpEd

Universities are in a bind.  As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very

28.04.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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Euphemistic Practices:  The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.   Killing...

24.04.2025 10

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The Selling Of America: Ending The US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege – OpEd

Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that

24.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers And Self-Investigation – OpEd

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.  

22.04.2025 8

Eurasia Review

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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance...

22.04.2025 10

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De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East.“Security...

21.04.2025 9

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Dotty And Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS – OpEd

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals.  But

21.04.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy – OpEd

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord

18.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defense Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety

Island states tend to be anxious political entities.  Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting...

17.04.2025 10

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Flexible And Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia And Australian Anxiety – OpEd

Island states tend to be anxious political entities.  Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting

16.04.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the...

15.04.2025 10

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Gender Stunts In Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys – OpEd

Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue

15.04.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot.  To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and...

14.04.2025 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Junk Science And Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project – OpEd

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot.  To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering

11.04.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

It was a massacre.  Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March...

10.04.2025 60

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Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War On Palestinian Health – OpEd

It was a massacre.  Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern

09.04.2025 20

Eurasia Review

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Withdrawal Symptoms: Hungary, Europe And The International Criminal Court – OpEd

Europe seems to be suffering paroxysms of withdrawal, notably when it comes to international conventions.  Many states on the continent seem to have...

08.04.2025 6

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Holding Meta Accountable in Africa

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook.  The High Court of...

07.04.2025 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Addressing Hate Speech And Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable In Africa – OpEd

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook.  The High Court

06.04.2025 7

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Secrecy And Virtue Signalling: Another View Of Signalgate – OpEd

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of

04.04.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...

02.04.2025 50

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Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts.  He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...

01.04.2025 10

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Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War On Israeli Institutions – OpEd

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts.  He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas

28.03.2025 2

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the...

26.03.2025 20

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Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy – OpEd

Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the

26.03.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Careless People, Meta And Restricting The Digital Town Square – OpEd

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be

24.03.2025 9

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding And The IOC – OpEd

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will

24.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Back To Tried Failures: The New Offensive On Gaza – OpEd

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option.  This is proving very much to be the

21.03.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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