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  Endings for beginnings: reaching a Brexit deal

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on January 01, 2021

  IT WAS a hurried dash and came just before the end of the transition period. The United Kingdom and the European Union have reached an...

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  COVID-19 risks and campaigns for pardon

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on December 11, 2020

  BEFORE the January 4 ruling of district judge Vanessa Baraitser in the extradition case of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher will continue to endure the...

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  Keeping the empire running

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on November 28, 2020

  A FEW nostalgic types still believe that the Union Jack continues to flutter to sighs and reverence over outposts of the world, from the tropics...

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  The Yemen civil war arms bonanza

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on November 22, 2020

  Mammoth arms sales continue to remain matters of business and politics, with business tending to be the crowing representative, writes Binoy Kampmark ‘MAKING billions from...

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  Petitions, probes and Rupert Murdoch

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on November 14, 2020

  AUSTRALIA has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. One, currently in London’s Belmarsh Prison, is facing the prospect...

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  Competition, conflict and mining the moon

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on October 09, 2020

  THE discussion about mining the moon resembles that of previous conquests: the division of territory; the grabbing of resources; language of theft and plunder. All...

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  A stunning lack of transparency and fairness

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2020

  THE fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition proceedings against Julian Assange. Judge...

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  Assange and Britain’s judicial establishment

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on September 02, 2020

  ON SEPTEMBER 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of a process that has become...

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  US extending arms embargoes and Iran

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on August 19, 2020

  THERE are no official policing authorities as such when it comes to international relations. Realists imagine a jungle of states, the preyed upon and the...

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  Old wine in older bottles

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on July 31, 2020

  THE book of hours on Julian Assange is now being written. But the scribes are far from original. Repeated rituals of administrative hearings that have...