by Philip Farruggio | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
First thing first: If you want to know what is going on in the world, especially the political world, do NOT turn on the boob tube. And that is what it is, a vehicle for boobs. Similar to the world of sports media, if someone is allowed on mainstream television, then...
by Philip Farruggio | Aug 29, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
In a play on words the ‘US’ in my title can mean the ‘Us’ being we here in the USA. Get it? You see, what our nation has become is simply one big bordello! Wherever you look you see whores surrounding us working stiffs. I don’t mean the...
by Philip Farruggio | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Having spent the first 40+ years of my life paying tribute to landlords, this writer knows the crime of it all. I am not referring to the system of ‘ One landlord/One Tenant’ that many of the neighborhoods in baby boomer Brooklyn consisted of. That was in...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 30, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Just viewed, for the first time, the 2012 ESPN documentary ‘Ghosts of Ole Miss’ written by Wright Thompson and directed by Fritz Mitchell. The film covered the 1962 segregationist riot at the University of Mississippi in opposition to the first Afro American student...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 18, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
{As a preface to this column, this writer has been an adherent of the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. Thus, I believe wholeheartedly in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and that he was truly ‘ Anointed with the Christ spirit’.} One Sunday morning I...
by Philip Farruggio | Jul 13, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
The only real difference between white extremists of today and their cousins 100 years ago is ‘ Who are we discriminating against?’ In 1920 Congressman Albert Johnson of Washington State introduced legislation to slash the numbers of immigrants allowed...