Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust
Nov. 16, 2014
As with many out there this writer has a deep affection for his country.
My work calls for me to speak with white collar and blue collar small business people daily... throughout America. The overwhelming majority seem to be decent, diligent and hardworking stiffs.
Yet, when I initiate deeper discussions on the economic and political reasons for our nation's quasi-depression (both fiscally and spiritually), most of these folks come off as highly unsophisticated and not well versed in history. I do not mean the history that the mainstream publishing and media portrays... and even that is lacking in the minds of most of our neighbors. I mean the key element that makes history free from the sin of perspective... and that is called Factual Proven Truth.
Professor James Petras had his column posted near to my newest one on Nov. 13th at Information Clearing House. My column, 21st Century Amerika: The Fourth Reich, suggests that our great nation has become successor to the Third Reich of the Hitler gang.
Prof. Petras in his new piece (really an essay) : The Con Man Cornered: Obama and the Democratic Debacle of 2014, goes into much more detail about how the "Hope & Change" campaign of 2008 was transformed into "Ya' better hope he changes... quick." Petras defines each of the major policy decisions by Mr. Obama AND the overwhelming majority of his Democratic Congressional members, and how they are really NO different from what the other side of the political aisle trumpets.
Bottom line: WE are a military industrial empire and most Americans in positions of power and prestige serve it. Allow me to go one step further and state that most of our friends and neighbors also serve this empire as well, whether they realize it or not. Sad.
There are so many out there who do not agree with this empire on most key issues and decisions, yet... they remain silent. Oh yes, they will rant and rave behind closed doors or to their television sets when presented with the **** that comes over the news reports or news talk shows.
Yet, when presented with an opportunity to speak up in public or to their elected officials... silence. "What good does it do," they tell you, "They won't listen to me anyway." Really? Well, perhaps my fellow Americans should travel to other countries, let us say the ones who they think are civilized and rational.
In France a little over one year ago, when the government tried to push through some austerity measure, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in continual protest... and the government backed off!
Informed and intuitive individuals should realize that "one shot" demonstrations accomplish very little. Remember Feb. 15, 2003, when hundreds of thousands of regular folks from a myriad of countries took to the streets in protest to the upcoming invasion of Iraq? Here in my area of central Florida, we too had hundreds turn out to protest.... and then everyone but a few of us went home, never to be seen protesting again.
Let us speak a bit about truth, ok? Former Reagan administration Assistant Treasury Secretary and lifetime conservative (editor and columnist) Paul Craig Roberts became "born again anti-empire" quite some time ago. Two months ago, he had his piece 9/11 After 13 Years posted on many websites.
In it Roberts shares much of what the 9/11 Truth Movement has covered since that tragic day. Most readers of mine have already studied what Roberts reiterated in his piece, yet there are some interesting facts, AKA TRUTHS, that many "Conspiracy Theorists" may have not yet known about.
Osama bin Laden, dying of renal failure, was supposedly murdered by a Seal Team around May 2011. Roberts asserts that bin Laden may be the only human in history to survive renal failure for 10 years, AND why was there NO dialysis machine at the compound where the assassination took place?
Strange how the SEAL team that supposedly killed him died a few weeks later in a (doesn't this always occur?) helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Thousands of sailors on the aircraft carrier where the "burial at sea" of bin Laden took place wrote home, according to Roberts, that no such burial took place.
As to the 9/11 day itself, Roberts repeats the Truth that the twin towers could not have come down like pancakes due to "structural damage." These would be the only steel skyscrapers in world history that collapsed as a result of low temperature "office fires."
He goes on to mention how physicist Steven Jones first pointed out that it was the use of thermite that brought those two towers down so quickly in free fall. Jones was soon after coerced by his university to buy out his tenure. It seems that someone at the federal government may have threatened his university with losing its federal funding.
Books have been written about the UNTRUTHS of that day, which sadly is the only story that the world has heard. Need I go on?
Bottom line: The more we -- who know better about this empire -- go out in public and let our point of view be seen and heard, the more we can educate and influence our neighbors to the Truth!
Benjamin Franklin, not the most progressive of individuals, said it very well:" Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." Frederick Douglass took it one step further: " Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has. It never will."
PA Farruggio
November 16, 2014
(Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist [found on Nation of Change Blog, Truthout.org, TheSleuthJournal.com, Worldnewstrust.com, The Intrepid Report, The Peoples Voice, Information Clearing house, Dandelion Salad, Activist Post, Dissident Voice and many other sites worldwide.] Philip works as an environmental products sales rep and has been an activist leader since 2000. In 2010 he became a local spokesperson for the 25% Solution Movement to Save Our Cities by cutting military spending 25%. Philip can be reached at