As Paris pact turns five, climate change is the new cold war
by Rashmee
Posted on December 7, 2020
This is the week the Paris Climate Agreement marks its fifth birthday. December 12 is …
Read MoreWhat linked America’s un-presidential non-debate with a vegetable market in a poor country?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 6, 2020
As the US vice-presidential debate – the debate of the deputies – rolls around on …
Read More75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a novel about the crack that joins broken objects to their past
by Rashmee
Posted on August 3, 2020
In August 1946, a year after an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic …
Read MoreTrump eviscerates G7 - and America’s leadership
by Rashmee
Posted on May 31, 2020 / The Focus
Donald Trump wants to turn the G7 group of advanced economies into the ‘G10 or …
Read MoreCarlos Ghosn could be bad news for Lebanon
by Rashmee
Posted on January 12, 2020 / The Arab Weekly
The world is consumed by events in and about Iran and Iraq, as well as …
Read MoreCarlos Ghosn – the Lebanon connection
by Rashmee
Posted on December 31, 2019
When I heard about Carlos Ghosn’s flight to Lebanon from Japan, where he faces trial …
Read More‘Abe Shinzo’ wants to make Japan great again
by Rashmee
Posted on September 7, 2019
On Friday (Sep. 6), Japan’s education minister Masahiko Shibayama proposed to the cabinet that Japanese …
Read MoreIf you doubted there’s no globocop any more, read this
by Rashmee
Posted on August 11, 2019
No one’s paying any particular attention to what the US says or thinks about anything …
Read MoreTell me again, why is Donald Trump favouring Britain with his presence right now?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 1, 2019
Those who’re wondering why Donald Trump is favouring Britain with his presence should read Anne …
Read MoreDoes the ‘greatness and genius of America’ still stand?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 30, 2019 / The National
Every year, pundits forecast China’s inexorable rise to superpower status and the end of the …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK