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  The global response to Covid-19

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2021

  THE Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never likely to hand down a rosy report with gobbets of praise. Organised by the World...

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  Dealing with Myanmar’s military

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on April 05, 2021

  CORPORATE morality can be a flexible thing. Some companies see tantalising dollar signs afloat in the spilt blood of civilians and dissidents. Military governments, however...

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  Rankings and academic freedom

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2021

  FORGET the global university rankings of any list. The global university promotion exercise is filled with snake oil and perfumed refuse, an effort to corrupt...

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  Handelsblatting Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

  by Binoy Kampmark | Updated at 12:00am on March 18, 2021

  THE Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is fast becoming a subject of notoriety. First, will states obtain it? Second, will they use it? The first answer has...

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  Vaccines, access and intellectual property wars

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

  BY NOW, anybody speaking about vaccine equality and equity of access must surely be coming across as slightly deranged. In the field of COVID-19, traditional...

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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...