Presumptions of friendship and guarantees in international relations are never secure and rarely lasting. Even when they are given the stamp of firm endurance, a closer look will find greater benefits accruing to one party over the other. When one needs to persuade a weaker power into surrendering real estate […]
Author: Binoy KAMPMARK
Pulling The Funding: Trump, Israel And US Military Assistance
In a telephone interview on Fox News on the morning of November 3, President Donald Trump revealed that a deal had been struck with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cease the annual provision of US$3.8 billion in military assistance after 2026. “We already agreed that by the end of […]
Fetishists For Bombing: Resuming The Attacks On Iran
Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States. In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing conflict against Iran with the dismissive promise that it would be dealt with after November 3. This could involve the renewal of force so far […]
Students And The Apolitical Sword: The Defeat Of Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić
“This is not an ordinary election victory; this is an avalanche that has wiped out an authoritarian regime and entire political scene.” Nebojša Vladisavljević, University of Belgrade, BBC News, October 26, 2026 When the flagging intelligentsia and jaded reformists retire to their offices of despair and forget that better days […]
Defective Products: OpenAI, Dangerous Chatbots And Deception
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is […]
Entertainment, Free Speech And Judicial Murder: Hegseth And Livestreaming Executions
On December 3, two traditions risk combining in foul if remarkable fashion. In the United States, an execution is set to take place with a ghoulish offering of livestreaming through the World Wide Web. This, at least, is the sprightly proposal from Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense (or […]
Flying Scared: The Evacuation Of US Bombers From RAF Fairford
The evacuation of a dozen B-1B bombers of the US Air Force from the RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire is another instalment in the latest rippling of the Iran war that began as a pre-emptive, illegal assault by the US and Israel on the Islamic Republic in late February. This, arguably, […]
Managed Deception And Imperial Politics: Trump’s Greenland Deal
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international […]
Perilous Surrender: The Pentagon Falls For Artificial Intelligence
The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily, for the use of artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defence Advanced Research […]
Lawless Lands: Trump Preaches At The United Nations
There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]






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