Network 2018 | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 12, 2018 Forty-two years ago director Sidney Lumet brought to the big screen Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant story of Network. This great s ...

The Two Party Food Fight | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2018 File: Yoo memo.pdf: The Torture Memos, sometimes called the Bybee Memo or 8/1/02 Interrogation Opinion, was a term originally a ...

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 ...