Category Archives: Free Speech

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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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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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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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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Let’s Unpack “the Personal Is Political”

Posted on January 11, 2017 by M. Meo

  This morning brought, on the usual disreputable websites, the appearance of another disapproving look, this time by a military historian, of the past two Presidential administrations.  Andrew Bracevich the author of America’s War for the Middle East: A Military History, in … Continue reading →

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Epistemological Comment

Posted on December 18, 2016 by M. Meo

In the last post I spoke of how the citizens of the United States are asked, by our intelligence services, to believe a whipped-up story of Russian hacking affecting the recent election.  The C.I.A., the White House, the Congress, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Afghanistan, Astronomy, Education, Elections, Empire, Free Speech, Friendship, Global, Gun Control, Pacific Green Party, Police, Ronald Reagan, Scott Green, Seth Woolley, Spiritual life, Uncategorized, War | 2 Comments

From the Crooked Timber of Humanity

Posted on December 14, 2016 by M. Meo

This morning a post by the ex-CIA agent and Christian anti-war activist Ray McGovern reminds us of the lessons to be learned from the “Red Line” Affair of 2013, when the current Administration warned the Assad régime in Syria that … Continue reading →

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The Action at City Hall

Posted on October 12, 2016 by M. Meo

  A survivor of the many demonstrations at Berkeley in the late 1960s, including the arrest of thousands during the Peoples Park riots, I’ve stayed at my house while there were demonstrations and arrests at City Hall over the renewal … Continue reading →

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Faith in Government

Posted on October 6, 2016 by M. Meo

After my spouse of over twenty years swore out a restraining order on me, claiming she was in fear of her life, and went even further, testifying before a hearing of civil commitment to the effect that I was not … Continue reading →

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Cold Comfort

Posted on September 17, 2016 by M. Meo

A recent report from the British government is characterized by the blog site of an investigative journalist: According to the new U.K. report on Libya, Britain’s military intervention – alongside the U.S. and France – was based on “erroneous assumptions … Continue reading →

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