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Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa’s Nuclear Program by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists.  They show that a regime, even one subject to sanctions and exiled to the diplomatic cold room, can still show aptitude and resourcefulness in creating such murderous weapons.  The white regime of Apartheid South Africa was marginalised, … More Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa’s Nuclear Program by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Viciousness Regnant: Humanitarianism as a Weasel Word by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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It may be time to reconsider the use of such words as “humanitarian” and “humanitarianism”.  There has been little of that sort evidenced in the Israel-Hamas War, marked by industrial-mechanised atrocities, enforced deprivation and starvation, orders to evacuate (read expulsion and banishment), preceded by massacres most haunting and visceral.  Its constant evocation by various sides … More Viciousness Regnant: Humanitarianism as a Weasel Word by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

The Day Guterres Became Relevant by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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The relevance given to a UN Secretary-General is often judged by the degree of controversy caused.  In history, the most relevant are usually targeted.  Dag Hammarskjöld, refusing to remain a mere bauble of international office, was almost certainly murdered over his intervention in the Congo civil war in 1961.The least relevant (who was that sweet … More The Day Guterres Became Relevant by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Violence Against Human Animals: Images from the Israel-Hamas War by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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With the body count rising in this latest, and particularly bloody Israel-Hamas War, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has now been annexed to Israel the just warrior State, fighting darkness and primaeval stone age barbarism. This has taken two forms.  The first is the way the victims of the Hamas attacks … More Violence Against Human Animals: Images from the Israel-Hamas War by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts.  Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has faced assaults from hundreds of Hamas militants.  Directed from southwards in the country, the mayhem has rattled the security and intelligence establishment smugly convinced in their reading of Palestinian motivations … More Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause.  In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting.  Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets … More Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Aqueous Matters: Europe’s Water Crisis by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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Europe is joining a number of other regions on the planet in suffering a prolonged water crisis; and it is one that shows little sign of abating.To this can be added the near catastrophic conditions that exist in other parts of the globe, where ready and secure access to water supplies is more aspiration than … More Aqueous Matters: Europe’s Water Crisis by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

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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, theyhabitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses.  Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, … More A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again by Dr. Binoy Kampmark