Trump Hopes To End Gov. Power To Combat Global Warming
Trump has proposed that the scientific finding which serves as the basis for U.S. laws working to lower greenhouse gases be rejected.
Koch Brothers
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2013It seems that the poster boys for the U.S. neo-conservative movement – oil billionaire magnates Charles and David Koch – may be looking to…
White House Petition
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2013The Huffington Post apparently has uncovered a little gem “from the depths of the White House’s ‘We the People’ petition website.” On Tuesday, some…
Aclu Wins CIA Battle On Drone Info
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2013A U.S. court of appeals on Friday ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cannot provide a blanket refusal to those who seek information…
Congress Demands Report On Domestic Spy Planes
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 13th, 2013The corporate press has gotten a lot of mileage out of its argument that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been fighting a lonely battle…
Federal Courthouses Wildly Expensive
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 11th, 2013Are lawmakers serious about cutting wasteful spending? They could stop building wildly expensive courthouses that the country doesn’t need.“Extra space in courthouses costs an…
Us Torture UNits In Iraq
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 9th, 2013A number of American and Iraqi witnesses have connected top U.S. advisers – including former CIA Director General David Petraeus – to human rights…
Us Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 6th, 2013“U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most unequal of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the…
Hessel Tribute
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2013Stéphane Frédéric Hessel died on February 26th. He was 95 years old. Many U.S. media outlets have ignored his passing.To its credit, The New…
Keystone Xl Pipeline
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb.28th, 2013Today, The American Spark points its readers to a very informative federal report which examines the possible environmental fallout which may occur if the now…
Us Spies Want Supercomputer
Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 26th, 2013Kade Crockford is hopping mad.“The government has largely gotten away with blowing up the parts of the Bill of Rights” that in a bygone era…
GOP Positions UNpopular
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 23rd, 2013It’s tough being a Republican leader these days.A Pew Research Center/USA Today poll released on Feb 21st reveals this truth with startling clarity.Whether the…
Obama Nuke Secrets
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2013In The Origin of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that “real power begins where secrecy begins.” If we accept this statement as true,…
Obama Nuke Secrets
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2013In The Origin of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that “real power begins where secrecy begins.” If we accept this statement as true,…
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2013The agency charged with flying unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace so far has failed to meet basic privacy, reliability, safety, and performance standards…
Obama Murdering Us Citizens
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 8th, 2013On Feb. 4th, eleven senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to release to Congress “the secret legal opinions outlining your authority…
School Shooting Similarities
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2013U.S. school shootings share a disturbing number of characteristics, revealed a little-known study released in November by one of America’s Intelligence Fusion Centers.Below, posts…
TSA Workplace
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 30th, 2013The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is getting ready to launch an investigation into the apparently questionable work environment at the Transportation Security Administration…
Study On Far Right
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2013“In the last few years, and especially since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating…
Nuke Components
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 17th, 2013A “large inventory” of nuclear weapons parts and related materials are “scattered across” America’s nuclearweapons sites and are in need of disposal, stated a…
Bush Tax Cuts
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 9th, 2013A recent U.S. law said to temporarily address the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ issue has quietly made “permanent 82 percent of the Bush tax cuts,”…
Fiscal Cliff Myth
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 30th, 2012The looming “fiscal cliff” being heatedly discussed by corporate news sources is a flat-out myth, declares a leading economic think tank.The Center on Budget…
Privacy In America
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 18th, 2012In October, the Congressional Research Service – an federal entity that works to provide members of Congress with simple, easy-to-understand reports on matters of…
DHS Fusion Centers
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 9th, 2012Lawmakers claim to be interested in cutting acts of useless federal spending. If they were serious, they would close the 77 ‘fusion centers’ currently…