by Philip Farruggio | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Remember Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film ‘ Schindler’s List’? In it Oskar Schindler, an ambitious Czech businessman, has his epiphany in Krakow, Poland during the German occupation. Schindler came to Krakow to make his fortune using Jewish...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Just watched a 2020 documentary entitled ‘ Dirty Money’ that covered a slew of scams perpetrated on American consumers. The segment on Scott Tucker really got my goat. Here’s a bit of a background on this character and his disgusting shenanigans: In 1991, Tucker was...
by Philip Farruggio | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Baby boomers like this writer usually reminisce about past days, replete with the great music ,sports and styles we enjoyed. Yes, growing up in ‘ The garden spot of the world, Brooklyn NYC’ one can remember how important to us our neighborhoods were. One...
by Philip Farruggio | Dec 7, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Politics has always been, as Mark Twain put it : ” The last refuge of scoundrels.” It seems that, in super rich controlled American politics, it’s simply selling the public the ‘ Illusion of democracy’. The guys or gals with the most...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 14, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Here it is from an old college buddy and confidante of mine, J D. This former progressive talk radio host and socialist thinker nailed it with his commentary on things ‘ Das Capital’: “If they straightforwardly called it ‘ Moneyism’ instead of a $64,000 dollar word...
by Philip Farruggio | Nov 10, 2023 | Blog, CounterCurrents
Imagine, as a 12.5% proud Jewish baby boomer, how outraged I am at what’s been transpiring in greater Israel. If one studies the history of that region, the real history, the paranoia by Israelis is not exaggerated. Go back in time to the 1930s in Europe and one...