The NATO Monitoring Committee – it might sound rather grand. What? With a board of directors, sprawling branches, units and printing presses? Not at all. A small, informal group made up of a few seasoned activists. Including one tireless trade unionist. His specialty? None. But tenaciously.

When he sees a news report (La Libre, Le Soir and RTBF) lamenting the sanctions imposed by the United States against Thierry Breton—former European Commissioner, former French minister, and former CEO— he obviously cannot help but send a letter to said media outlets asking why they are remaining silent about the sanctions imposed by the European Union (and its compliant member states) to muzzle Jacques Baud, a former colonel in the Swiss Army, whose only “crime” is failing to meekly embrace the “narrative” from Brussels. The response from said media outlets: silence. The silent arrogance of indifference.

It happened again in February of this year when RTBF aired a three-part, cinematic “explanation” of the crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Once again, a letter was sent to a group of RTBF journalists questioning the various blatant biases that the French-language Belgian radio and television broadcaster has championed.

To this, of course, there was no response from the roughly twenty-four “RTBFers” who were addressed. Is it indifference, embarrassment, or the contempt of an elitism that is accountable to no one? Who knows.

And when, in that same month of February, he wrote a very courteous letter to an editorialist at Le Soir who had described Iran as “a country under the thumb of a despicable oppressive regime,” even as that country is the target of a violent Israeli-U.S. military aggression—which he seems to justify—he urges the columnist to exercise greater restraint and caution. What’s the result? No response. The same silence, the same haughtiness.

It’s all part of the same story. May 2026: Le Soir mocked the slowness of the Russian advance in Ukraine, without thereby discrediting the specter of the ‘Russian threat’. June 2026: the same Le Soir devoted three pages to the anti-Chávez Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado without providing any context whatsoever…

Our Don Quixote concludes his internal message by offering to pass on the torch: “Given my various critical comments addressed to *Le Soir*, which have geone unheed,d I must be rather ‘burned’ in the eyes of this editorial team…” Alas! Irreplaceable, this trade unionist who never stops fighting.