by Philip Farruggio | Dec 12, 2024 | Blog
Dylan’s song resonates well with this writer, causing me to come to tears. Why? Well, look around you citizens of this Amerikan empire. Like lab rats running nowhere inside a maze with no exit, working stiffs and the poor and indigent cannot find a way out of...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 4, 2024 | Blog
It was another cold, clammy Chicago January morning. The Serbian was up at the actual ‘ break of dawn’ preparing for work. He had recently gotten his green card and steady work was more of a luxury. His muscular look had gotten him a laborer’s job at...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 3, 2024 | Blog
On this wonderful ( and commercial driven) day off from work or school we need to give thanks. The super rich, mega millionaires and billionaires alike, are what’s keeping our nation afloat. After all, it is they who pay so much in taxes compared to the rest of...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog
Rick Perlstein’s 2020 bestseller Reaganland is a must read for many reasons. First and foremost this 900 or so pages book reads like a novel… Perlstein is that great a storyteller. He covers the rise of the right wing in our nation, focusing from Jimmy...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 16, 2024 | Blog
Op ED Commentary What Israel is doing to Gaza, and what the settlers are doing in the West Bank, are heinous acts. What Hamas did on Oct 7th was equally heinous when civilians are murdered. When open minded people read my pom (permanently in the Simon Wiesenthal...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog
They attribute the famous quote ‘ Let them eat cake’ to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not have enough bread to eat. Her retort Let them eat cake, famous for all the Super Rich...
