I used to post up interesting stories at my Facebook page but that platform had become so Orwellian, I’ve deleted my account and if you have one, I encourage you to delete yours. Meanwhile, I will time to time post links to stories I expect should have a wider audience here at my blog:
Yasha Levine at the Baffler on internet surveillance (it’s way bigger than Oakland)
https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
American contractor/former SEAL (read assassin) arrested in Serbia
https://insajder.net/en/site/focus/9863/
Superstitious Slovenian villager Melania Trump is a hyper-religious fruitcake at the White House getting ‘the donald’ prayed over by hordes of evangelist freaks
Justin Raimondo at antiwar.com makes a case (I agree with) Trump is held hostage by his Mike Pence aligned generals
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/02/11/president-held-hostage/
The Russian military publicizes intelligence pointing to the Oscar winning ‘White Helmets’ preparing a staged thespian event supporting coming al-Qaida chemical attack (to be blamed on Assad, of course)
Vanessa Beeley on the The Guardian, propaganda and the real nature of the White Helmets
http://21stcenturywire.com/2018/02/01/white-helmets-channel-4-bbc-guardian-architects-war/
Legacy articles concerning Syria and chemical warfare at ronaldthomaswest.com:
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2016/03/16/natos-most-censored-story/
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2015/11/29/whereas-the-enemy-of-your-friend-is-your-favorite-fk/
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2016/02/17/letter-to-doctors-without-borders/
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Ronald Thomas West 
An unlikely scenario? US is working to create a false flag operation in Syria (a bloody one assuredly) in the hope of sabotaging the FIFA championship in Russia in June 2018. Western boycott, anyone?! Trump would be given an “impeachment immunity” in exchange for standing up to Russian aggression and mid-term election meddling. Think of it as a satire before sending the goons.
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I actually came to the conclusion the USA failing to qualify for 2018 is a good thing; certainly this would have been ‘political football’ and the USA boycotting, refusing its team attending. But that opportunity at a propaganda coup was stolen when USA was eliminated at the last round of qualification. It was today I saw in the news Macron has already decided France will attack Syria if chemical weapons are used again. To now, that implicates another NATO intelligence agency; DGSE (France), BND (Germany, Gerhard Schindler was forced out because it was brought to parliaments attention he had lied about chemical use in Syria) CIA certainly, and it was Turkey’s MIT actually facilitated the sarin attack at Ghouta (and let’s not discount the role of MOSSAD in propagandizing for the White Helmets, at the least.)
I’m not certain how Russia is playing this; do Putin’s intelligence people understand the liberal democracies will not back off in Syria, no matter how much price will be paid? If Russia is waiting for the west to come to its senses, I think there will be a big disappointment. The western leadership is no longer even concerned about or responsive to the will or welfare of its peoples. They have entirely different bosses, these days.
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Football gods Messied them up!
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