by Philip Farruggio | Apr 13, 2022 | Blog
We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar- now we see them, now we don’t. Yet, one can almost call upon them at will, these bits and pieces of our lives, once so vivid, once so real, filed forever as nostalgia. So it is for me, 60 plus years after...
by Philip Farruggio | Apr 13, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Lynn is in her early 60s with mediocre health coverage… and NO dental coverage at all. She usually avoids doctors and dentists, relying on natural , sometimes homeopathic approaches. She sometimes uses her Chinese medicine practitioner for acupuncture and Chinese...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog
All high school and college Political Science classes should be made to view John Frankenheimer’s 1964 film Seven Days In May. The story is one that can resonate so well with our current political and cultural climate here at home. It reveals a secret Coup de...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Numerologists tell you that 19 is 1 + 9 which equals the powerful # 1 , or new beginnings. Well, 19 years ago on March 19, coincidentally, my nation orchestrated the most horrific deed since God knows when. The illegal and immoral attack, invasion and subsequent...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog
There is always a fuse, usually a long one, to set the dynamite off. So it is with families. The dysfunctional family is always the result of deep rooted dysfunction that festers even before it surfaces. This anger resonates perhaps within the grandparents, or great...
by Philip Farruggio | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, CounterCurrents
In less than two weeks will be the chilling anniversary of probably the most heinous act by my nation of pre-emptive war against another nation. March 19th, 2003 when this writer awoke for breakfast I was greeted by all the cable news networks’ subtly celebrating our...