In America, the usual suspects start to vote in-person
by Rashmee
Posted on October 20, 2020
In-person voting starts in Wisconsin, Hawaii and Utah on October 20. Only one should have …
Read MoreKamala Harris and the complexity of racial identity
by Rashmee
Posted on August 25, 2020 / The National
Harris’s birth certificate alone illustrates the problem of rigid binary notions around identity in the …
Read MoreIt really wasn’t Trump’s bin Laden moment
by Rashmee
Posted on November 1, 2019 / The Arab Weekly
Dana Shell Smith, deputy assistant secretary of state for international media engagement at the time …
Read MoreAmerica’s ‘usable power’ is perceptibly in decline
by Rashmee
Posted on May 28, 2019
Every year, the pundits predict China’s rise to the status of global hegemon. Every other …
Read MoreAmerica: A house divided
by Rashmee
Posted on January 12, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to Cairo with a nonsensical message – we …
Read MoreTrump Googled himself, got Obama. Bit like Aristotle vs Plato in Arab world
by Rashmee
Posted on August 30, 2018
America’s child-man president is livid about the unfairness of internet searches. The Guardian reports that …
Read MoreTrump’s executive orders are the damnatio memoriae of our times
by Rashmee
Posted on August 24, 2018
Whatever happens – or doesn’t – with respect to Donald Trump’s real and alleged misdeeds, …
Read MoreBirtherism reborn as Hindu? Narendra Modi’s BJP takes lessons from Donald Trump
by Rashmee
Posted on December 5, 2017
The argument over Rahul Gandhi’s Hindu-ness sounds a bit like the debate over Barack Obama’s …
Read MoreRemember Obama’s ‘red line’ for Syria’s Assad? Trump’s ‘fire’ for Kim sounds similar
by Rashmee
Posted on August 14, 2017
Donald Trump should at least remember his own words (as highly quotable and the “greatest” …
Read More‘No, you can’t’, President Obama, you can’t magic up Israeli-Palestinian peace. But you tried
by Rashmee
Posted on December 30, 2016
Are you thinking that President Obama is up to a lot of pointless posturing? That …
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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