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Brazilian forests cleared for fashion Zara and H&M

Dutch Assistance Crucial for Strengthening Moldova’s Cybersecurity

A small tribute to the album More by Pink Floyd

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

Amazon Poet Thiago de Mello (1926-2022): “It is dark, but I sing because the morning will come”

ISIS threat increases again

What is the problem with pesticides?

Brain over Binge: A radical new take on bulimia

Month of the Amazónia(s) in Lisbon

Digital Nomad guide to Chiang Mai

Kurdish KDP plays a dangerous game

Amazon city of Manaus after the Covid-19 disaster

An attack on Kurdish autonomy

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

Berlin composer Maya Shenfeld holds up the sky

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

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…

What Rutte and Sudani discussed in The Hague

Something is brewing in Transnistria

The wonderful bleak movies of Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Yazidi woman freed from ISIS but what is her future?

Time Machine – Riding on the Marrakesh Express

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

The repetitive dance around America’s departure from Iraq

If even the UN in Iraq is corrupt

Iran strikes non-existent Mossad targets in Kurdistan

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

The Triangle of ISIS, Iran, and the USA

When Shiite Iraqis start attacking their own Kurds

Perhaps democracy does work in Iraq

Rape as a weapon rarely leads to justice for victims

Iraq fears the fire of the Gaza war

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

With all eyes on Gaza, dictators seize opportunities

Playing with matches during drought sets the Amazon on fire

Hawija: in case of doubt, do not bomb

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

Drought in the Amazon reveals ancient rock drawings

Collective humanity lost amidst Israel and Palestine conflict

The bizarre tragedy of the brilliant musician Hermann Szobel

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (17) | Pop Music in the Jungle

Strange media fuss over NSDAP membership Prince Bernhard

Hamas received help from Iran but followed ISIS’ example

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (16) | Unrest in the Rainforest

Addicted to disasters

Things improve slowly for the Slovakian blind and partially sighted

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (15) | Dom Bosco Wine

Open letter to my former president

Some Self-Sufficiency is Practical in Bratislava

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (14) | Lost

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (13) | Fighting against Demons

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

Kirkuk is mainly Iraqi when it is convenient

Suddenly I owned a tanya in Hungary

A journey of 10 years comes to an end

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (12) | The Labyrinth

How a forced kiss sparked a Spanish national drama

Bob Dylan: the myth overtaken by an almost sobering reality

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (11) | The Dream

Lebanese banking crisis, construction craze in Baghdad and an ayatollah

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

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (interlude) | The Angry Planet

How to create the ideal terrace

Deadly drone attacks in exchange for life-saving water

The Heavy Legacy of Lausanne

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (10) | The Neighbor Dispute

Mistrust of vaccines proves timeless

Foreign countries recognize Yezidi genocide while Iraq remains in denial

Lou Reed goes out for a walk

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (9) | The Mosquito River

Why the controversial Spanish bullfight tradition isn’t over yet

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (8) | The Fish in the Tree

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

Familiar and unsettling: the photography of William Eggleston

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

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

From Haka to Bridgerton

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (7) | Ritual for a Cat

Einstürzende Neubauten and the sound of a collapsing society

Iraq’s President puts Militia Leader before Cardinal

Final Stop: Bratislava

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

The Dutch send troops to Iraq to counter unpredictable militias

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (6) | Playing Football with a Rat

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

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (5) | The Curse

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

Kurds need help to prosecute foreign ISIS perpetrators

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (4) | The Tree Planter

A boat full of refugees sank as nobody wanted them

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (3) | The Ghost Town on the River

Audiophile vinyl reissue of Saudades by cosmopolitan percussionist Naná Vasconcelos (1944-2016)

How a Kurdish dream went up in smoke

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

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (2) | Chased by the Devil

Solange is looking for the soul

World Environment Day

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

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

From Rock & Roll to a Hammock in the Amazon (1) | Upstream

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