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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...

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  Netanyahu’s annexation drive

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:06am on July 12, 2020

  Land seizures, annexations, and conquest. These are words axiomatic to the state of Israel. In the main, the state has maintained an uncomfortable position based...

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  Assange and the second superseding indictment

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on July 03, 2020

  THE Kafkaesque Imperium has taken yet another absurd step towards mean absurdity with another superseding indictment against Julian Assange. This move by the US department...

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  Death, protest and George Floyd

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

  MOBS are unruly, headless things.  The message is the action.  The platform is often violence.  But what is happening across the United States cannot simply...

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  Coronavirus, bail refusal and Assange

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on March 30, 2020

  The pattern of rejection and denial has been a consistent feature in Baraitser’s rulings regarding Assange’s case. When his legal team sought to liberate their...

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  Boris Johnson against parliament

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on October 31, 2019

  A PRETTY odd thing, this. The prime minister of Britain, supposedly of the conservative creed, making an almost violent dash against both parliament and the...

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  Assange, remaining in Belmarsh

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on October 02, 2019

  MUCH ink has been spilled in textbooks describing situations where autocratic states can behave badly. They abuse rights; they ignore international law and they ride...