Through the Yellow Looking Glass: Australia’s China Wars
This year, China as Intimidating Monster has become the popular motif in Canberra circles. Australian government members Andrew Hastie and Senator James Paterson have...
Bjorn Beckman, 1938-2019: A Life of Struggle and Friendship
My good friend, mentor and teacher, Bjorn Beckman died peacefully in his home on 6th November. He was surrounded by his lovely wife, Gunilla,...
Tethering Pegasus: WhatsApp takes NSO Group to Court
A lawsuit filed in a US federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday threw up a few interesting, and disturbing considerations. In it, the...
Libra and Calibra: Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress
It was never going to be pretty. The Facebook CEO knew in appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to answer questions on the...
Sexual Harassment as Academic License: Arresting the Rot in Our Universities
This week, the University of Ibadan inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to investigate claims of sexual misconducts and harassment of students on the campus. The...
Turning 70: Xi Jinping’s People’s Republic of China
During the era of Sovietology, experts would pour over images of the gathered politburo in Red Square, gazing with grey monolithic interest upon the...
Scott Morrison’s China Thesis
China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it might be approaching a level of formidable heft is troubling to those...
Improper Purposes: Boris Johnson’s Suspension of Parliament by Dr. Binoy Kampmark (Guest Columnist)
There was something richly amusing in the move: three judges, sitting in Scotland’s highest court of appeal, had little time for the notion that...
Has Nigeria Ceased To Be A Federation?
Tony Nnadi, a lawyer and Co-ordinator of Lower Niger Congress (LNC)- has been quite vociferous in his claim that Nigeria ceased to be a federation...
How to Delay Human Death
A news report this week said the Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts Felix Tran and Haim Israel strongly believe that genome sequencers such as Illumina, high-tech...