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  • Drone Attacks Human Rights Watch

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 24th, 2013Readers perhaps have heard of the joint news conference held on October 22nd, 2013 by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, in which the…

  • Pentagon And Authorized Leaks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2013Thanks to a new Pentagon directive, Congress will be informed whenever a Defense official is authorized to release classified data to a journalist. Despite…

  • Defunding The Us Government

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 8th, 2013How to explain the current government shutdown? Perhaps we might conduct a thought experiment…Suppose for a moment, dear reader, that you and I run…

  • FBI Drone Use

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 28th, 2013The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has deployed unmanned ‘drone’ aircraft for domestic spying activities since 2006, it was recently revealed.The Bureau has spent…

  • Rebuilding Household Wealth

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 19th, 2013More than five years after the start of the Great Recession, a recent U.S. congressional report on the economy has stated that “a number…

  • NSA Admits To Willful Violations

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 9th, 2013“The National Security Agency [NSA] now says that some of its analysts knowingly and deliberately exceededits surveillance authority on occasion over the past decade,”…

  • Obama And Reporters

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 29th, 2013A Yemeni journalist whom the Obama Administration lobbied to keep behind bars recently was released fromjail by the country’s president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.The…

  • Environment Hydraulic Fracturing

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 23, 2013The Congressional Research Service recently released a very informative, short study on such unconventional gas and oil production methods as hydraulic fracturing and directional…

  • Global Warming And The Melting Arctic

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 10th, 2013Global warming has created a series of conditions in the Arctic which could make the area a national securityconcern, quietly acknowledges a recent congressional…

  • Are Generals Traitors Too

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2013 The Obama Administration has created quite a spectacle in its drive to punish all those who leak secrets to the media – or,…

  • Us Minimum Wage Since 1968

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 27th, 2013A very short, four-page study outlining the real value of the U.S. minimum wage – or, to be precise, its breathtaking loss of value…

  • Us Minimum Wage Since 1968

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 27th, 2013A very short, four-page study outlining the real value of the U.S. minimum wage – or, to be precise, its breathtaking loss of value…

  • Us Infrastructure In Serious Decline

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 23rd, 2013The U.S. needs to invest at least $3.6 trillion in its infrastructure by 2020 if the country is to avoid an inevitable and dangerous…

  • Al Gore On NSA Spying

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2013“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,…

  • Time For Obama Impeachment

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 11th, 2013The London Guardian perfectly stated the matter last week.“Under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately…

  • China Hacks Into Us Weapon Systems

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 28th, 2013Computer hackers in China have accessed the designs for a large number of America’s most sensitive weapons systems, The Washington Post declared yesterday.“Among more…