Category Archives: Bradley Manning

What Transgender Means

Posted on July 28, 2017 by M. Meo

  Surely in writing this post, which is a highly personal meditation, I have to begin from the admission of my own lack of principled stance over time.  My opinions have changed and developed in the course of years. Today … Continue reading →

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The Fine Line between Prediction and Paranoia

Posted on July 26, 2017 by M. Meo

  James Petras is a commenter with whom I find myself frequently agreeing.  In a good way, it’s something akin to how I feel about Paul Krugman (with whom I have plenty of disagreements, of course; but I’m generally on … Continue reading →

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How to Address the Korea Problem

Posted on July 7, 2017 by M. Meo

The President of the United States is threatening military action against North Korea, and the only response the Koreans have made, is to test a new long-range missile that can reach, potentially, Alaska. Suppose the U.S. bombs Korea.  Their reply … Continue reading →

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Lessons from Colonialism

Posted on June 7, 2017 by M. Meo

While my two teenaged sons, Michael Kepler and John Dominic, were attending the much-anticipated Free Speech pro-Trump rally in front of City Hall this last weekend, getting onto the front page of the British newspaper the Guardian, I went to … Continue reading →

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The Bombing of Syria, on general principles

Posted on April 7, 2017 by M. Meo

I don’t have a lot to say about the most recent American war crime. It does go to show, however, how little it mattered in the 2016 election (you recall, I hope, how in that election, as in every single … Continue reading →

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Same Old, Same Old

Posted on March 17, 2017 by M. Meo

Green Party activists, especially those motivated by anti-war sentiment, have no difficulty demonstrating the alignment between the Republican and Democratic parties, upholders both of the American Empire, through brutal military means. David Swanson imagines Trump’s budget originating in the thought, … Continue reading →

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Mass Incarceration Here and Now

Posted on March 15, 2017 by M. Meo

  My friend Shane Greene, whom I’ve known since we were locked up in Multnomah County Jail last year for months together, came to visit me the other day; he’s been out of state prison for three months now, and … Continue reading →

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Why We Were Attacked

Posted on February 13, 2017 by M. Meo

  Despite Donald Trump’s questioning of our condition of endless, eternal warfare during the course of the recent campaign season, we are still fighting a worldwide (the word used to be “global”) War on Terror.  Our plans to co-operate with the … Continue reading →

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A Progressive Step Forward

Posted on February 6, 2017 by M. Meo

Mussolini made the trains run on time.  From the 15 November 2016 The Atlantic — “Stop Saying Mussolini Made the Trains Run on Time“: Like other Italian Fascist-era coinages (turns out “drain the swamp” was a Mussolini thing, too), Il … Continue reading →

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What If A Coup Takes Place

Posted on February 1, 2017 by M. Meo

Your Intrepid Reporter, dear reader, will preface this commentary, as he has done in the past, with the notice that it constitutes the opinion of one who has pled guilty to violating a Restraining Order, taken out by his wife. … Continue reading →

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