Basketball, Viktor Bout and Troubling Exchanges
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Prison exchanges and swaps are never entirely satisfactory affairs. The appropriate measure in such cases is the degree of dissatisfaction that arises from them. In…
Silicon Valley Fake: Elizabeth Holmes and the Fraudster’s Motivation
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch It has been one noisy time for the paladins of big tech. Jobs have been shed by the thousands at Meta, Amazon and Twitter; FTX,…
Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers and Getting Assange
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Poor, silly, protuberant Mike Pompeo. The stocky, irritated former CIA director and former Secretary of State is rather upset that those who worked under him…
From NATO to AUKUS: The West Has Nukes Everywhere
A loophole opens the door for Australia to be supplied with submarines capable of using nuclear weapons and China doesn't like it.
Facial Recognition Technology Down Under
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The language is far from reassuring. Despite being caught red handed using facial recognition technology unbeknownst to customers, a number of Australia’s large retail companies…
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as…
Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule…
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest…