‘Amtrak Joe’, Pete Buttigieg and America’s train revolution

by Rashmee

Posted on June 4, 2023


It’s hard to think of America’s coming train revolution (click here and here for my …

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Is Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris a tick-the-box exercise?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 26, 2023


At the outset, let me just say, I vote Democrat and in the state of …

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What was the point of Joe Biden visiting Northern Ireland?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 12, 2023


The main thing about Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland was its brevity. On his …

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India, Italy, Saudi, Colombia, Ethiopia haven’t had a US ambassador for a year or more

by Rashmee

Posted on January 27, 2023


Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and former United Nations diplomat, recently fulminated on the Biden …

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Light starts to dim on the oldie goldies’ era of American politics

by Rashmee

Posted on January 8, 2023


The election of 57-year-old Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the US House of Representatives returns …

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Is the Africa-America axis really made real in Washington, DC?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 13, 2022


Washington, DC is holding an overdue holiday party that will last three days from kick-off …

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Unlike the UK, the US made sure slow-motion disaster of train strike wouldn’t happen

by Rashmee

Posted on December 8, 2022


The point about the US train strike is that it didn’t happen. American legislators did …

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Putin’s naglost on Ukraine is a feature, not a bug

by Rashmee

Posted on November 25, 2022


Facing reverses on the battlefield, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is doing his worst, targeting Ukrainian …

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How credible will Rishi Sunak’s Britain be at the G20 in Bali?

by Rashmee

Posted on November 14, 2022


Three weeks into the job, Britain’s  Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will make his second outing …

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America calling: The Ukraine war needs diplomacy not daredevil talk

by Rashmee

Posted on November 8, 2022


The US midterms matter…to Ukraine. Yes and no. Conventional wisdom has it that if Republicans …

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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