Life’s Little Surprises
I went to the university to see my classroom for the first time, visit with my Boss in the law department and check on some important protocols, i.e., would a self educated Honky raised Indian in the...
View ArticleDavid Ignatius’ Body of Lies
a Ronald Thomas West assessment * CIA veteran Melvin Goodman on David Ignatius: “The mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency” Glenn Greenwald on David Ignatius: “The CIA’s...
View ArticleEssay on Native American Humor
Dreamt up at an out of doors café in Sant Feliu de Guixols * Napi. Just who is this guy? Napi is many things. Napi is a teacher, an archetype, our Blackfoot ancestor and much more. Napi is a god, he...
View ArticleA Spy in the House of the Unloved
If Sabina Had a Child You say you are married, you have a nine year old son you are devoted to and freely state you cheat. You say your husband is clueless. In conversation you easily express...
View ArticleA message for my readers
A gesture of appreciation from Ronald * For my European readers, think about this: Certain nations emptied their jails of criminals, emptied their asylums of lunatics and stirred banished religious...
View ArticleRecreating a Hot Spring in Your Bathtub
* In the Summer of 1976 I was walking alone in the forest outside of my hometown (West Glacier, Montana USA) returning to my house from a visit to some Blackfeet Indians staying in a tipi a mile or so...
View ArticleColor of Law Star Chamber FISA & PRISM
John Roberts appoints the FISA Star Chamber * In the United States theory of law there is a known and in the past prosecuted concept called ‘color of law.’ Color of law is when the apparatus of state...
View ArticleIntroduction to Napi Mephisto
Napi Mephisto * I’m one of the nicest and most unassuming people you’d ever meet. All I wanted was a simple life with a woman who loves me, kids, a garden, a dog, and to be happy. I’d worked hard, for...
View ArticleShould I Be A Spy Novelist?
The truth written as fiction is the best fiction * “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.” The operations officer was talking about ‘The Monk.’ The Monk never smelled right to some of the brass in...
View ArticleReminiscing Life In Blackfoot Country
Floyd ‘Tinyman’ Heavyrunner * This retrospective had been originally penned in 2004. It is a chapter from my book ‘Penucquem Speaks’ (graciously ranked five stars by Howard Zinn at amazon.com.) Today...
View ArticleRetort of the Iceman
* Reminding myself I am a poet… this is a work from several years ago, exploring my (then) new surrounding by fantastic assumptions of western reality encountered; when leaving a so-called...
View ArticleSummer Break
Update: I had to sneak in a bit of stolen wifi (until the waitress caught me and I ordered a glass of juice) to post up a parting shot prior to holiday… and will check in time to time until settled...
View ArticleScooby Doo on Lyndon LaDouche
Lyndon LaRouche’s Invited Guest Ok, so Glass-Steagall was a good thing and the Queen of England presides over a historically murderous race of people, the Anglo-Saxon. Then, somehow the end of...
View ArticleFree Speech Clown Gallery
Dedicated to the ongoing frustrated fantasies of all the would-be assassins that have missed me in Berlin particularly, and elsewhere generally. You all must enjoy a life that sucks… (click on images...
View ArticleOutline of a Snowden Legal Defense
Use of ‘The Espionage Act’ to prosecute whistle-blowers by the Obama administration is unfortunate reality. It is unprecedented persecution by a sublime neo-liberal political liar & cohorts, but it...
View ArticleJohn Le Carre’s ‘A Delicate Truth’
A book review by Ronald A former intelligence officer, Le Carre presenting a proposed corporate ‘Deep State’ is refreshing in and of itself. Le Carre’s proposal has individuals in the intelligence and...
View ArticleModern Indian Society
„Oh man, Ron, the way those nuns beat us..“ Pat Kennedy There is no such thing as an Indian in the generic sense. There are a few tribes where the aboriginal language is still fairly widely spoken,...
View ArticleTobacco
First essay in the series on the original Plains culture (matriarchy) Tobacco “The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least” -Frank...
View ArticleWomen
Third article in the series on Plains culture (matriarchy) The Women Warriors “Always when there is a woman in the charge, it causes the warriors to vie with one another in displaying their valor”...
View ArticleConflict
Fourth in the series on the original Plains culture (matriarchy) * ^ Pierre-Jean ‘father’ DeSmet “They [the Blackfeet] are plunged in coarse superstitions which brutalize their souls, they worship the...
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