Have a Blessed Military Industrial Empire! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust July 16, 2017 You go to the butcher shop and the sweet young cashier gives you change and says "Have a blessed day." You call one of your sm ...

Fools for Phony Wars: 'America, Love it Or...' | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust July 10, 2017 When this writer was 18, he met a really pretty blonde, whose name he still remembers, and asked her out on a date. Her name w ...

Crippled With No Recourse: The Haircutter & The Clerk | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhiip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust July 9, 2017 Funny how so few of us understand the tremendous gap between "Dwindling Medicaid and Shit Private Health coverage." This is NOT ...

What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...

Spring/Summer '67 & 2017 -- Ignorance is Bliss | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust June 20, 2017 Ah, to be 17 again, with so few cares in the world. Jumping from our high school graduation, with Paul Cohen wearing shorts and a tee shirt under ...

Facebook makes everything worse | Mickey Z.

CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 18, 2017 Here’s how “awareness” works in 2017: Something happens. We post about. Until something else happens. We revel in the likes, shares, or c ...

Memorial DAZE! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 31, 2017 My neighbor is a Vietnam vet suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. He is in his early 70s and looks at least 10 years old ...

What I learned from Frank, the health club security guard | Mickey Z.

Photo by Ryan McGuire Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 27, 2017 Yes, I’m someone who eschewed a college education, but I earned a PhD in human nature working at the Vertical Club (my first ever gym ...

Before The Storm | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 24, 2017 (Note: i wrote this op Ed column 12 years ago this month, and it was RIGHT ON TARGET --Phil) On the South Sea islands, hours be ...

Fear Strikes AT, not OUT! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 21, 2017 Memories come and go, but important ones seem to stay with us for entirety. I can recall, so vividly, traumatic events from my ...

Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy | Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb

The Gleaners. Jean Francois Millet. 1857. Oil on canvas. Feb. 12, 2016 (CounterPunch) -- Under the feudal mode of production, peasants were often allowed to cultivate plots of land for themselves on ...