Author Archives: M. Meo

About M. Meo

Worked as translator, museum technician, truck lumper, lecture demonstrator, teacher (of English as a Second Language, science, math). Married for 25 years, 2 boys aged 18 & 16 (both on the Grant cross-country team). A couple of scholarly publications in the history of science. Two years in federal penitentiary, 1970/71, for refusing the draft.

Muddle about the Covington Affair

Posted on January 23, 2019 by M. Meo

This post contains my conclusion regarding the highly publicized encounter between Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, and a group of Covington High School students at the Lincoln Memorial a week or so ago. The incident has the same format, … Continue reading →

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Mosses from The Old Manse

Posted on January 18, 2019 by M. Meo

While Montaigne initiated the literary form of the personal essay, and did it so well that millions of writers since then have followed his lead, I confess that I’m no Montaigne. I find inspiration for setting out my ideas, half-finished … Continue reading →

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Feminist Contradictions

Posted on November 19, 2018 by M. Meo

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas is an old chestnut, from the days of Scholastic disputation in medieval universities. “I am a friend to Plato, but a greater friend to truth.” It has relevance for the Green Party which has … Continue reading →

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Reason to Doubt the Received Narrative

Posted on July 20, 2018 by M. Meo

Scott Ritter was the head of the United Nations team of weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and, prior to the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, he loudly and repeatedly asserted that Iraq had no weapons … Continue reading →

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Course of Terror Attacks of 2017

Posted on December 22, 2017 by M. Meo

The end of the year 2017 approaches. Here is an accessible listing, performed by a close relative, of the incidents of politically motivated attacks, specifically of Islamic perpetrators against Western targets, during the last year. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mMz405h7DI_2oe0gNNXaIs8gWpjGChGup56VNKUIBUM/edit#gid=0

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Internal Exile

Posted on October 20, 2017 by M. Meo

This record of political commentary, this statement by the Secretary of the Cascadia Chapter of the Pacific Green Party, will not be the first to note, in this post, the intolerable contradiction of present-day activists who uphold human dignity by, … Continue reading →

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Will We Address Asian Privilege?

Posted on September 16, 2017 by M. Meo

The figures from the United States Census appear to show that the Asian population has a mean income some 25 % above that of the so-called “white” population. That threatens, on the face of it, the category of Asian folk … Continue reading →

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We Can Try Our Best and Still Fail

Posted on September 16, 2017 by M. Meo

If we take the idea seriously, that the United States has not become an empire, but always, since its founding, has been an empire, we could be situated, I believe, better to evaluate its present position. If ever there is … Continue reading →

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Deir ez-Zor Has Been Relieved

Posted on September 4, 2017 by M. Meo

The Syrian Army, with assistance from Russian and Iranian armed forces, today broke the two-year siege of the last substantial city controlled by ISIS in Syria, Deir ez-Zor on the Euphrates. Update 5 September 2017:  You heard it here first. … Continue reading →

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American Empire

Posted on September 4, 2017 by M. Meo

The recent textbook of world history — winner of the 2011 World History Association prize — by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, provides a well-researched, thoroughly-documented, balanced interpretation of the history … Continue reading →

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