Dutch version of the East India Company was ‘the original military-industrial complex’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 31, 2021
Founded in 1602, just a couple of years after the English established the East India …
Read MoreAmsterdam, capital of sustainable capitalism?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 30, 2021
Four worthwhile facts about Amsterdam as 2021 closes itself out: ** it has a cap …
Read More21st century Britain: still the ’emancipated empire’?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 29, 2021
There appears to be an element of self-righteousness about British foreign secretary Liz Truss’s declaration …
Read More‘Finch’ may be one apocalyptic movie too many
by Rashmee
Posted on December 28, 2021
Having just watched Tom Hanks cross a post-apocalyptic American West alongside Jeff, a humanoid but …
Read MoreHow will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2021 / The New European
This is the full (and free) version of the piece I wrote for The New …
Read MoreThis Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2021
It’s probably a sign of the times that the hottest, newest Netflix Christmas movie this …
Read MoreA grim Christmas for the Soviet Union, 30 years ago
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2021
On Christmas Day, 30 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev hung up on the hammer and sickle, …
Read MoreAlong with other things, America has a Santa crisis
by Rashmee
Posted on December 24, 2021
It’s not easy being a worthy Santa – portliness, for instance, might be a desirable …
Read MoreThe new Internationale and the new kids on the left bloc
by Rashmee
Posted on December 23, 2021
If Gabriel Boric, Chile’s bearded, millennial president-elect, represents anything it is the changing nature …
Read MoreHow Erdogan’s faux-religious economic scruples matter to Nutella-lovers
by Rashmee
Posted on December 22, 2021
Turkey produces most of the world’s hazelnuts – 70 per cent, to be precise – …
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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