It’s All Over Red, White and Blue!
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 this...
A Farruggio Original: The Working Class Hero
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 a construction...
Thanks To The Super Rich
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 us. So...
Reaganland Redux
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 Carter's...
Poem on a plaque in the Wiesenthal Holocaust archives in L.A.
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...
Let Us Eat Cake!
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 throughout...
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The New American Dream
WE HAVE A NEW AMERICAN DREAM, not of new homes and toasters and microwaves, but of becoming the type of country we always thought we were. The show runs live from 8 pm to 10 pm Eastern time every Thursday. Philip’s segment is at 8:30 pm. Previous shows are available in archive, dating back to February 3, 2011.
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