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A short walk through Amazon time with Anna Roosevelt

A short walk through Amazon time with Anna Roosevelt

A professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Roosevelt has been dubbed the “matriarch” of archaeology in the Amazon Basin. In a career spanning some 40 years, she helped accomplish a radical shift in the way we perceive past and present in the...

Narcoterrorism: Venezuela, Hezbollah and a cocaine invasion

Narcoterrorism: Venezuela, Hezbollah and a cocaine invasion

Hezbollah militants backed by Iranian mullahs plotting alongside Venezuelan generals, Colombian revolutionaries and drug lords to first flood the US with cocaine and then launch the next 9/11 attack. It sounds like your typical Hollywood action flick, yet it stems...

The curious case of Assad Barakat: Evil Genius or Scapegoat?

The curious case of Assad Barakat: Evil Genius or Scapegoat?

EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE; Nov. 8, 2018  Text/ images Peter Speetjens   More than a year has passed since US President Donald Trump stood on the White House lawn and promised an answer to the “menace” of Hezbollah. The Americans have long had Hezbollah in their crosshairs,...