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COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege

The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege

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

Apr 21, 2025 | Feature Article

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Apr 18, 2025 | Feature Article

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

Apr 17, 2025 | Feature Article

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Apr 15, 2025 | Feature Article

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Apr 12, 2025 | Feature Article

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Apr 6, 2025 | Feature Article

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg rsquo;s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebo ...

Apr 4, 2025 | Feature Article

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perver ...

Apr 2, 2025 | Feature Article

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Apr 1, 2025 | Feature Article

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly

Mar 28, 2025 | Feature Article

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

Mar 26, 2025 | Feature Article

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Mar 21, 2025 | Feature Article

If at first you don rsquo;t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the case with the ...

Binoy Kampmark
Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected]. More He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, teaching within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program.

Binoy’s research and teaching interests lie in the intersections of law, international relations and history. Much of his research and teaching involves the examination of conflict, diplomacy, and the various crises confronting international society including refugees, terrorism, ‘rogue’ states and undocumented citizens.

Binoy has written extensively in both refereed journals and more popular media on his research interest topics of the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th century history and law.

The quality of his research has been acknowledged in awards made by the US-based International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and Limina, journal of the History Department of the University of Western Australia.

Media expertise
Binoy is available for media interviews and comments as an expert on international and national security, terrorism, the war on terror and politics.

He has been interviewed for National Public Radio in the United States, Radio National in Australia, and radio stations in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to online publications including The Conversation, Eureka Street, CounterPunch (US) and Scoop (NZ).

Binoy was also commissioned by the UK History Channel in December 2007 to January 2008 to write package descriptions for the American Civil War, and in March 2006 to write a package on World War II: The War in the West, 1943-1945.

Does 2025 Budget inspire hope?

Started: 11-03-2025 | Ends: 01-06-2025