Monthly Archives: June 2014

The Stock Market and Democracy

Posted on June 25, 2014 by M. Meo

When it comes to conflict, I have to drop the Socratic advice Know Thyself. I would rather Know Your Enemy. In the case of economic justice, that means I read The Economist, a London-based weekly newsmagazine which caters to the … Continue reading →

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Community and Postal Workers United — Tuesday Night at the Peace House

Posted on June 19, 2014 by M. Meo

Your Intrepid Reporter attended the meeting, Tuesday at 7 pm, at the 18th Street Peace House, of Community and Postal Workers United. The group, which I’ve worked with for about a year, is organizing resistance, both locally and nationally, to … Continue reading →

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Health Care for All Oregon, the 2014 annual meeting

Posted on June 17, 2014 by M. Meo

Saturday morning Your Intrepid Reporter attended, as the Liaison of the Pacific Green Party, the Annual Meeting of Health Care for All Oregon, held here in Portland at the Universalist Unitarian Church. The proceedings went from around ten in the … Continue reading →

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Two Deaths

Posted on June 13, 2014 by M. Meo

At breakfast yesterday the older of my two sons (both attend Grant High School, a few blocks from where we live) told me that his end-of-year “presentation” had been interrupted by a lockdown. The door was locked, the business of … Continue reading →

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The Fall of Mosul

Posted on June 11, 2014 by M. Meo

The U.S. military lost the Iraq War. If you don’t credit that judgement, consider the view of the fairly conservative Christian Science Monitor: The ISIS [militant so-called ‘terrorist’ Islamicist group active in both Syria and Iraq] victory is a signature … Continue reading →

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An Accurate Arab View of U.S. Israeli Policy

Posted on June 10, 2014 by M. Meo

From an article posted today in Al Jazeera entitled “For U.S. foreign policy, ‘left’ and ‘right’ have little meaning”: Nothing sets the political compass spinning like Washington’s sponsorship of Israel — which turns the fiscal conservative into a Keynesian, the … Continue reading →

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The Meeting in Yalta

Posted on June 9, 2014 by M. Meo

Diana Johnstone lays out the very public planning of a turn to the West by the Ukraine. As we know, the failure by Yanukovitch to sign the so-called DCFTA precipitated the regime change of February 2014. In September 2013, one … Continue reading →

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Some Guy with a French Name. A coupla years ago

Posted on June 8, 2014 by M. Meo

by Jean Bricmont / December 5th, 2012 Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war Left (including … Continue reading →

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The Salem Nominating Convention of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon

Posted on June 8, 2014 by M. Meo

7th of Junii — dies irae deorum from left to right: Your Intrepid Reporter, M. Meo (unless he on this occasion was being impersonated by Miguel Cabron, a slippery fellow indeed); Michael Sonnleitner; Steven Reynolds; Alex Polikoff; Tim Dehne; Mike … Continue reading →

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Jottings of a Jaded Convention-goer

Posted on June 8, 2014 by M. Meo

Saturday 7 June 2014 10 am basement room of the Ike Cafe 299 SE Cottage Salem state convention Pacific Green Party Chris Henry arrives, identifies self as Progressive Party member 10:40 am Mike Beilstein makes presentation on Citizen Climate Lobby’s … Continue reading →

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