In Bhandari Vs Greenwood, India battles for influence with former imperial master
by Rashmee
Posted on November 20, 2017
Over at the United Nations, it’s India Vs Britain. Each has a candidate for judgeship …
Read MoreThe fight over America’s forever wars
by Rashmee
Posted on November 19, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
Something extraordinary has happened in the capital of the world’s most powerful country: For the …
Read MoreThe Russians aren’t coming. They’re already here, there, everywhere in the Middle East
by Rashmee
Posted on November 18, 2017
Nikolas Gvosdev says we should’ve known this was coming. Mr Gvosdev, who holds the Captain …
Read MoreIs Europe joining the rest of the world in rejecting ‘Anglocondescension’?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 17, 2017
Whatever your views on Glenn Greenwald, the journalist best known for his reporting on US-UK …
Read More#Zimbabwe: The coup de Grace that wasn’t. Echoes of Egypt?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2017
From Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, the country’s generals have been firm about how to read …
Read MoreGrievance economics versus globalisation
by Rashmee
Posted on November 15, 2017 / The National
Back in the 10th century, the Baghdad-born traveller Al Masudi wrote about China, its rule …
Read More#Bonn conference: A carbon tax on exports from US, the world’s only climate-change denier?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2017
As negotiators from nearly 200 countries meet this week in Bonn for the year’s biggest …
Read MoreThe ‘I alone can fix it’ men who lead Saudi Arabia (and the United States)
by Rashmee
Posted on November 13, 2017
A pundit said on the radio the other day that Donald Trump sees himself in …
Read MoreThe risks of Saudi war on too many fronts
by Rashmee
Posted on November 12, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
Until the sudden purge in Saudi Arabia, there was little doubt that the kingdom’s young …
Read MoreWill ‘Singles Day’ become the Chinese ‘Black Friday’, a fixture on world’s commercial calendar?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 11, 2017
Today, November 11, is Singles’ Day in China, the biggest shopping day of the year. …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK