by Philip Farruggio | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Dissident Voice
In 1988 I was travelling from NYC to Arizona by plane one night. It was a long 5 hour flight, and we were on a jumbo jet. I was standing alongside this man, early 40s perhaps, who said he was an Israeli engineer. During our conversation, I asked about his feelings on...
by Philip Farruggio | May 10, 2025 | Blog
I’ve got a chip on my shoulder that’s bigger than my feet I can’t talk to people that I meet If I could see you now I’d try to make you sad somehow But I can’t, so I’ll cry instead Kudos to the Beatles for this passage from their...
by Philip Farruggio | May 10, 2025 | Blog
She was the oldest of three girls born right before WW1. A very smart kid, she excelled in grade school right through high school. Great with numbers, she was a natural to become an accountant. No way. Her father needed her to get to work and earn money to help the...
by Philip Farruggio | May 8, 2025 | Blog
Now, most students of the early years of Nazi run Germany can see the truth of it all. Meaning how the far right wing of American political life took ideas from that horrific playbook. Reagan and co. decided to use blacks and browns living in our ghettos as the...
by Philip Farruggio | May 8, 2025 | Blog
Sometimes you can almost inhale memories of the past, regardless of how long ago they were. Imagine, 55 years has flown through the time tunnel of this baby boomer’s incarnation and it feels like yesterday. May 4th, 1970 was a very traumatic day for us anti war...
