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Six months In '68: A Drastic Awakening | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 3, 2018 Fifty years has flown by for many baby boomers. So much has transpired, and yet, the first six months in 1968 were the foundation of my current political awareness. I was a freshman in college then, doing my best to survive in a much more demanding scholastic environment. Brooklyn College at that time was a tough school, not o ...

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Totalitarian Dream: Fatherland/Homeland | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farrugio -- World News Trust April 24, 2018 The Nazi regime running Germany in the 1930s and 40s came up with the word Fatherland for their nation. Words and phrases can ...

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Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

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'Ground Control to Major Trump' | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 12, 2018 Those who remember the late David Bowie's 1969 song Space Oddity can recall the lyrics: "Ground Control to Major Tom." Almost ...

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Fake News Is Fake Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 18, 2018 As a columnist, I must get to the point on key events that have shaped our future as a republic. Let it be known that what I ...

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It's All Over Now Baby Red, White and Blue | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 10, 2018 Leave your stepping stones behind there, something calls for you Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you The va ...

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A 'Bolt' (ton) From the Past | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 2, 2018 As most people now know, Trump picked John Bolton to be his new National Security Advisor. Many progressive and libertarian ou ...

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What Shall it Profit a Man.... | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust March 30, 2018 As I write this column it is Good Friday, the most somber day in the Christian religion. This is the day that Jesus of Nazare ...

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I call BS… on “activism” | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Lorie Shaull (Creative Commons Attribution License) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 26, 2018 No sooner did the “March for Our Lives” spectacles commence did I start seeing it all ac ...

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Nice Kids: Now March for War & Empire Control! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust March 25, 2018 If anyone channel-surfed TV yesterday, well into the evening, ALL the channels covered the massive demonstrations by our yout ...

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The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.

CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...

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