Oblivious to Empire | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 6, 2018 If one studies many of Alfred Hitchcock's films, there is a consistent observation by the director about the public in general. ...

Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for combating sexual violence | Nerijus Adomaitis, Terje Solsvik

Combination picture shows the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018 winners./REUTERS Oct. 5, 2018 -- OSLO (Reuters) -- Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of ...

Caveman Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 29, 2018 Our nation has become like the character in the 1960 rock song Alley Oop: "He's the toughest man there is alive, Alley Oop, W ...

Drugged!! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 20, 2018 You don't have to be a genius sometimes to just "connect the dots." Since 2012, Big Pharma ads for prescription drugs, especi ...

Overheard at the Fat Cats Club | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 16, 2018 Being a "fly on the wall" is not such a bad thing... unless of course you get swatted. Listen to what this fly overheard at t ...

Amerika: One Big Commercial | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2018 I love sports. Since I was a young kid, I can remember, vividly, sitting in our living room, circa 1960, on a Sunday afternoo ...

Where's the Rest of our Country? | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2018 In the 1942 epic film King's Row, actor Ronald Reagan (of all people) played a down-and-out working stiff (Drake McHugh) who j ...

The Audacity of Super Wealth | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2018 As a transplanted New Yorker living in what I call "Death Valley USA," or Daytona Beach, Florida, I like to keep up with my ol ...

U.S. consumer spending, inflation data point to strong economy | Lucia Mutikani

Aug. 30, 2018 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in July, suggesting strong economic growth early in the third quarter, while a measure of underlying inflation hit th ...

CAGED! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2018 In Stanley Kubrick's classic film Spartacus, we can see the caged area where the gladiators fought. If you fork out Pay Per Vi ...

The Empire's Greatest Trick and 'Let Them Eat Cake' | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 23, 2018 In director Bryan Singer's fantastic 1995 film The Usual Suspects, the bad guy in the film was being interviewed by investigators. They had no id ...