America’s new game is Risk without rules
by Rashmee
Posted on September 30, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
In 1957, an Academy Award-winning French film-maker named Albert Lamorisse invented a strategy board game …
Read MoreThe FBI cannot investigate machismo and the US Senate can’t vote on it
by Rashmee
Posted on September 29, 2018
In one week – so, by October 5 – the FBI is supposed to gather …
Read MoreAfter Senate hearing, there’s only one question: Would you want Kavanaugh to rule on your case?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 28, 2018
Imagine you’re plaintiff or defendant and Judge Brett Kavanaugh is hearing your case. After his …
Read MoreRussia in the Middle East: Just choices between bad and worse
by Rashmee
Posted on September 27, 2018
So now we know. Russia sees no good actors in the Middle East, just choices …
Read MoreBehind India and Pakistan’s sabre-rattling lies a chance for change
by Rashmee
Posted on September 26, 2018 / The National
That India and Pakistan are talking of war yet again illustrates the competing truths about …
Read MoreTurkey’s Erdogan loves the Palestinians & some of them love him back
by Rashmee
Posted on September 25, 2018
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is quite the rock star in east Jerusalem. There, as …
Read MoreAnti-vaxxism can kill us all
by Rashmee
Posted on September 24, 2018
Smallpox has been eradicated by vaccines, saving approximately five million lives annually but try telling …
Read MoreThe ‘other’ is hounded in Germany. Sound familiar?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 23, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
The sacking of a German domestic intelligence chief over his public comments on far-right unrest …
Read MoreEver noticed how democracy is described as if it equals justice and virtue?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 22, 2018
The other day a prominent columnist for an American newspaper bewailed “our current democratic travails” …
Read MoreWho fills that hole if US dollar is no longer dominant?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2018
Everyone has their own theory, some better informed than others. Hardly anyone (except the Russians …
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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