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Does Moldova choose the EU or Russia on October 20?

27 September 2024

Ahmed Aboutaleb: “One of my children said to me, ‘Dad, I don’t do it like you.’”

Sjoerd Wielenga

27 September 2024

A camera does not make a journalist a fighter

27 August 2024

Amazon “arc of deforestation” vulnerable to drought

C. Cornell Evers

27 June 2024

Europe, climate emergency and denialism

C. Cornell Evers

24 June 2024

As a ‘dark tourist’ through Iraq

20 June 2024

ISIS as an Iranian conspiracy

12 June 2024

The Saudi soul changes along with the correction on the Saudi fauna

Anthon Keuchenius

8 June 2024

Prosecute ISIS Perpetrators for the Safety of Yazidis in Iraq

4 June 2024

Will the death of Iran’s president hinder a radical-conservative coup?

24 May 2024

John Adams’ High Art Music and Low Pop Sounds

C. Cornell Evers

22 May 2024

It’s all about the Weather – Music in the Eye of the Storm

C. Cornell Evers

20 May 2024

Iraqi law targets gays

15 May 2024

When wildlife tourism hurts animals

C. Cornell Evers

8 May 2024

Musicians, artists in general, often see the writing on the wall, such as the deplorable state of nature in the world

C. Cornell Evers

7 May 2024

Brazilian forests cleared for fashion Zara and H&M

C. Cornell Evers

20 April 2024

Dutch Assistance Crucial for Strengthening Moldova’s Cybersecurity

20 April 2024

A small tribute to the album More by Pink Floyd

3 April 2024

Literally going crazy over smacking and chewing sounds: it exists and it’s called Misophonia

3 April 2024

ISIS threat increases again

30 March 2024

What is the problem with pesticides?

30 March 2024

Brain over Binge: A radical new take on bulimia

21 March 2024

Digital Nomad guide to Chiang Mai

20 March 2024

Kurdish KDP plays a dangerous game

20 March 2024

Amazon city of Manaus after the Covid-19 disaster

C. Cornell Evers

19 March 2024

An attack on Kurdish autonomy

19 March 2024

Music producer Conny Plank worked with major artists such as Kraftwerk, but he wanted nothing to do with U2

19 March 2024

Growing up with a narcissistic mother: ‘My friends called her Snow White’s evil stepmother’

10 March 2024

Husna Jalal is a women’s rights activist from Afghanistan. We meet in the Netherlands for an interview about human rights, women’s oppression and western freedom…

8 March 2024

What Rutte and Sudani discussed in The Hague

27 February 2024

Something is brewing in Transnistria

27 February 2024

The wonderful bleak movies of Michelangelo Antonioni

21 February 2024

Time Machine – Consolation music Gavin Bryars on repeat: Jesus’ blood never failed me yet

C. Cornell Evers

20 February 2024

Yazidi woman freed from ISIS but what is her future?

15 February 2024

Time Machine – Riding on the Marrakesh Express

C. Cornell Evers

14 February 2024

Amazon Travelers – Composer, artist, curator, and listener Lawrence English: “The jungle is never silent”

C. Cornell Evers

11 February 2024

The repetitive dance around America’s departure from Iraq

1 February 2024

If even the UN in Iraq is corrupt

26 January 2024

Iran strikes non-existent Mossad targets in Kurdistan

17 January 2024

Under the spell of a young vulture in Mallorca’s dreamy mountains

11 January 2024

The Triangle of ISIS, Iran, and the USA

11 January 2024

When Shiite Iraqis start attacking their own Kurds

5 January 2024

Perhaps democracy does work in Iraq

23 December 2023

Rape as a weapon rarely leads to justice for victims

8 December 2023

Iraq fears the fire of the Gaza war

24 November 2023

Iraqi parliament speaker gets dismissed – and Iran is again behind it

17 November 2023

With all eyes on Gaza, dictators seize opportunities

6 November 2023

Hawija: in case of doubt, do not bomb

27 October 2023

Martin Luther King Jr.: his dream ended in a nightmare

21 October 2023

Collective humanity lost amidst Israel and Palestine conflict

17 October 2023

The bizarre tragedy of the brilliant musician Hermann Szobel

16 October 2023

Strange media fuss over NSDAP membership Prince Bernhard

11 October 2023

Hamas received help from Iran but followed ISIS’ example

11 October 2023

Addicted to disasters

2 October 2023

Things improve slowly for the Slovakian blind and partially sighted

28 September 2023

Open letter to my former president

17 September 2023

Some Self-Sufficiency is Practical in Bratislava

16 September 2023

A swimming pool for the coffee farmer, so he will keep growing coffee for us

Anthon Keuchenius

8 September 2023

Kirkuk is mainly Iraqi when it is convenient

6 September 2023

Suddenly I owned a tanya in Hungary

Lucienne van Ek

5 September 2023

A journey of 10 years comes to an end

4 September 2023

How a forced kiss sparked a Spanish national drama

2 September 2023

Bob Dylan: the myth overtaken by an almost sobering reality

29 August 2023

Lebanese banking crisis, construction craze in Baghdad and an ayatollah

23 August 2023

50 years of music: the best albums from 1966-2016

22 August 2023

How to create the ideal terrace

18 August 2023

Deadly drone attacks in exchange for life-saving water

16 August 2023

The Heavy Legacy of Lausanne

14 August 2023

Mistrust of vaccines proves timeless

9 August 2023

Foreign countries recognize Yezidi genocide while Iraq remains in denial

7 August 2023

Lou Reed goes out for a walk

7 August 2023

Why the controversial Spanish bullfight tradition isn’t over yet

27 July 2023

Disappearing for an hour with Billie Eilish: looking back at Happier Than Ever

25 July 2023

Familiar and unsettling: the photography of William Eggleston

25 July 2023

Goats Head Soup has been a delightful and slightly frayed classic by The Rolling Stones for fifty years now

23 July 2023

Ed Templeton, painter, photographer and world skateboarding champion: “The most important thing is to capture the emotion”

22 July 2023

From Haka to Bridgerton

Oswin Schneeweisz

22 July 2023

Einstürzende Neubauten and the sound of a collapsing society

22 July 2023

Iraq’s President puts Militia Leader before Cardinal

18 July 2023

Final Stop: Bratislava

18 July 2023

Lee Clayton sang about alcohol, drugs and women but died lonely and alone

16 July 2023

The Dutch send troops to Iraq to counter unpredictable militias

12 July 2023

What did an ex-member of a pro-Iranian militia ignite by burning a Quran?

3 July 2023

Exactly one hundred years ago, the Tanomah Massacre took place, say the Houthis. Indeed, this happened, says the expert

Anthon Keuchenius

1 July 2023

Kurds need help to prosecute foreign ISIS perpetrators

28 June 2023

A boat full of refugees sank as nobody wanted them

21 June 2023

How a Kurdish dream went up in smoke

13 June 2023

Vinyl reissue of Rain Tree Crow: The return of a masterpiece

13 June 2023

Solange is looking for the soul

6 June 2023

World Environment Day

‘Don’t fall in the same traps as the western world’

Marc van der Sterren

5 June 2023

Martin Scorsese’s Bob Dylan film Rolling Thunder Revue is a masterful reconstruction of facts and fiction

5 June 2023

Voted against Erdogan? Better watch out

31 May 2023

By ‘helping’ to avert an oil disaster, the Houthi’s apply to transition from pariah to recognized country

Anthon Keuchenius

30 May 2023

Farming Africa talks about food security and climate change

Marc van der Sterren

30 May 2023

THOSE WERE THE DAYS – MILES DAVIS LIFELINES – 1986

C. Cornell Evers

24 May 2023

President Maia Sandu walks a tightrope desiring EU membership

24 May 2023

Rehabilitation of Assad does not make Syria safe yet

19 May 2023

“You can prevent a lot of misery if your loved ones know what you want.”

17 May 2023

Norman Fucking Rockwell! is Lana Del Rey’s dark masterpiece

15 May 2023

The girl that spoke like an adult

17 April 2023

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