Tag: Sweden

Hitting the keys with pianist Alexandra Stréliski and organist Hampus Lindwall

By Jennifer BEN BRAHIM This week, Marjorie Hache speaks with award-winning French-Canadian pianist Alexandra Stréliski about her new album “Neo-Romance”, which she is currently touring in France. Meanwhile, Sweden’s Hampus Lindwall tells us about American avant-garde composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, who passed away earlier this year. Lindwall, along with drone metal guitarist and composer, […]

With God on Our Side: Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin

By Global Issues STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 23 (IPS) – Bronisław Malinowski (1884 – 1942) did for several years conduct socio-anthropological research in the Trobriand Islands. Returning to England after World War I, he wrote several ground breaking books, among them Magic, Science, and Religion in which he assumed that people’s feelings and motives are crucial […]

Why Americans have little to smile about these days

By RT Rising cost of living, disappointment with political leaders, and crushing loneliness are souring moods in the Land of the Free From a sputtering economy and high inflation to a lack of trust in political leadership, Americans are expressing displeasure with many facets of their daily lives. In the annual World Happiness Report, the […]