Donald Rumsfeld’s epitaph was written long ago — and it’s full of known knowns
by Rashmee
Posted on August 27, 2021
I didn’t realise until a day or so ago that Donald Rumsfeld was buried this …
Read MoreHow will Taliban 2.0 interpret Sharia law in Afghanistan?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 26, 2021 / The New European
As the world waits to see the extent to which the Taliban’s victory will see …
Read MoreThe truth is Afghanistan may already be fading as a news story in the US
by Rashmee
Posted on August 25, 2021
Here’s something to consider as everyone who is anyone writes about Afghanistan and what it …
Read MoreA better playbook for America’s Afghan engagment?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 23, 2021
A thoughtful reader asked me a key question the other day: what would have been …
Read More‘The trendy Taliban’? You’ve got to be kidding
by Rashmee
Posted on August 22, 2021
Of all the ridiculous stories on Afghanistan I’ve read, Mail Online takes the sambusa. (That’s …
Read MoreWhere ARE the anti-war voices?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 21, 2021
I have already written about the lack of a balanced media narrative on the US …
Read MoreListen up, to these hard truths on Afghanistan
by Rashmee
Posted on August 20, 2021
On August 19, Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria and Rebecca Crosby of Popular Information wrote a …
Read MoreWhat’s at stake for Afghan women?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 18, 2021 / open Democracy
Now that Afghanistan is back in Taliban hands and the US is being berated for …
Read MoreKeeping up appearances…in Afghanistan
by Rashmee
Posted on August 17, 2021
Joe Biden has a lot of incoming, as we used to say when we were …
Read MoreThree takeaways from the Taliban’s return to Kabul
by Rashmee
Posted on August 16, 2021
Three things emerge from accounts of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan: It was largely bloodless …
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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