America’s contradictions in three events on just one day
by Rashmee
Posted on August 4, 2022
The first Tuesday of August 2022 underlined America’s many contradictions, some reassuringly rational, others fantastical …
Read MoreThe US, EU and Democracies Anonymous, a new mutual aid fellowship
by Rashmee
Posted on June 29, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA Renaud Lassus, minister counsellor for economic affairs at the French embassy …
Read MoreWhat would you say if you saw this US president’s behaviour in another country?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 14, 2020
The New York Times’s David Leonhardt put it most succinctly of all. Quoting political scientist …
Read MoreUS needs a manufacturing renaissance rather than paying for computers with corn
by Rashmee
Posted on August 22, 2019
Here’s an interesting point made some little time ago by a former assistant professor of …
Read MoreLet’s face facts this Christmas: There is no ‘leader of the free world’ anymore
by Rashmee
Posted on December 27, 2017
Who is the leader of the free world, asks Leonid Bershidsky on Bloomberg View.…
Read MoreIs America having its own ‘Arab Spring’, complete with its own cruel ‘regime’ ?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 30, 2017
Read this sentence: “If Trump were an African dictator or Middle Eastern despot, a friendly …
Read More‘America, I sing you back’. Musings from a naturalized American in age of Trump
by Rashmee
Posted on August 10, 2016
As a naturalized American, I think it’s fair to say that one is deeply fearful …
Read MoreA poet savours the jumbled flavours of America’s July 4 immigrant picnics
by Rashmee
Posted on July 8, 2016
In this election year, the weekend after Independence Day may be a good time to …
Read MoreAn urgent plea for Arabic-speaking (and reading) crew on all US flights
by Rashmee
Posted on May 9, 2016
I’m only half-serious about mandatory Arabic-speaking-and-reading crew on all flights in America, but the fear …
Read MoreHow the world views America’s epidemic of gun violence: a chronic disease
by Rashmee
Posted on December 6, 2015
Imagine an alcoholic or a drug addict, who’s been overdosing on his/her poison, is weak …
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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