A RARE SIGN THAT THE PARTY IS NOT QUITE DEAD… YET If ever new blood & change were urgently needed, the time is now DEMOCRATS INERT & INBRED   By Bjarne Rostaing   It was startling to see Rep. Tulsi Gabbard nominating The Bern at the Democratic Convention last week. Many […]

    WHAT THE PHILOSOPHER/POET AND THE WHISTLEBLOWER HAVE IN COMMON   Posting as ‘TheTrueHOOHA’   By Bjarne Rostaing Edward Snowden and Henry David Thoreau have little in common other than WASPdom. Snowden is from a respectable middle class family, many of whose members worked for the government, and he happens to have a gift […]

      WHAT THE TRUMP & SANDERS FOLKS HAVE IN COMMON:  RAW ENERGY The Donald knows a good deal from a screwing FOLLOWING THE MONEY; HILLARY ABOVE THE LAW   By Bjarne Rostaing   Where did Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump come from? Their populist armies exploded from nowhere and made them national figures […]

  A VOICE of BALTIMORE BOOK REVIEW Journalist/author Bjarne Rostaing reviews two books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joby Warrick exclusively for VoB 2 REMARKABLE, REVEALING BOOKS FOCUSING ON THE BEGINNING OF THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS/ISIL) BY A REMARKABLE WRITER By Bjarne Rostaing Do we really want to know what happened in Iraq and the Middle […]

        COULD THE DNC’S FORMER NO. 2 EMERGE AS CANDIDATE SANDERS’ FEMALE VP RUNNING MATE? Hawaiian Representative’s gutsy trajectory MANY WOMEN DON’T LIKE CLINTON   By Bjarne Rostaing   A while ago I suggested in Voice of Baltimore that while Elizabeth Warren’s conspicuous absence was critical to Bernie Sanders’ primary election loss […]