( Deze brief werd op 1 november 2020 gepubliceerd op Medium ) Open (Final) Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders Dear Senator Sanders, Two days before your country’s already nerve-wracking presidential election, the day that Americans face the […]
Feeling the Bust – IV‑a/b IV‑a Take Bernie Sanders’s long lasting flirtation with Daniel Ortega in the ‘80s. Sanders was invited to the seventh anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Managua. By his own boasting account, he was […]
Feeling the Bust – III Looting Funds. Money Laundering. Fraud. These ludicrous accusations were what Jeff Weaver came up with to ‘expose’ the Clinton campaign. Of course nothing illegal was exposed, it was just another low in the smear […]
Feeling the Bust – I – II I The American political discourse won’t cease to surprise and offend us. Its rhetoric, the shamelessly showcased vanity, the blind hatred, blatant misogyny and racism, it seems all so much more exaggerated, […]
Bernie Goes to Rome – II So His Holiness Pope Francis briefly met with Senator Sanders after all. ‘This morning when I was leaving [to Greece ‑AO], Senator Sanders was there, he had come to the convention. He knew […]
Bernie goes to Rome – I Senator Bernie Sanders’s unexpected visit to the Vatican where he spoke at a conference on social and economic justice, was quite an unorthodox campaign move, to say the least. But to address ‘immoral […]
Something’s Berning – I Many of my friends ‘feel the Bern’. I don’t, but I don’t think one needs to feel much in order to observe politics. I’d prefer a rational approach over an emotional one. ‘But you have […]