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  • Gao Gitmo Detainees

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2012A leading Democratic senator has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) “to review existing U.S. facilities and identify factors to be considered in the…

  • Government Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2012National security experts “estimate that the amount of material that is over-classified by the federal government ranges from 50% – 90%,” a top secrecy…

  • Bush Tax Cuts

    Over 80% of Bush tax cuts reward wealthBy Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 17th, 2012More than 80% of Bush tax cuts reward wealth rather than small business owners or labor, according…

  • Romney Ohio

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 5th, 2012“Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help Republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio?” That’s the question…

  • Us Poverty Doubles Without Safety Net

    The ‘War on Poverty’ will only be lost only if we surrender the fightBy Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 31st, 2012Ronald Reagan often has been quoted as saying, “We fought a…

  • Current State Of Us Economy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 27th, 2012It’s become quite tough for ordinary Americans to determine what’s actually going on during this Great Recession, with so many lies and counter-lies about…

  • Who Is Buying Political Parties

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 16th, 2012A simple thought recently hit us here at The American Spark: Who precisely is buying the Democratic and Republican parties?Now we probably don’t have…

  • Poverty In Us

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 7th, 2012Last year the official count of U.S. residents living in poverty was the highest in the measure’s 53-year history, according to a study recently…

  • Soldiers Mortgage Fraud

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 25th, 2012Federal entities often are failing to enforce laws which protect U.S. servicemembers from improper foreclosures and burdensome mortgage interest rates, according to a little-discussed…

  • Romney Dependence Transcript02

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 22nd, 2012Yesterday The American Spark provided its readers with the first part of Mitt Romney’s now-infamous speech on nearly 50% of the American public, which…

  • Romney Dependence Transcript01

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 21st, 2012It’s time to admit what many in the corporate media already know, but are afraid to declare openly: Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign now is…

  • DNC Police Presence

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 12th, 2012It’s been a few days since the end of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), held between Sept. 4th- Sept. 6th in Charlotte, NC. The…

  • DNC Protesters

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 6th, 2012The past few days of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC) being held in Charlotte, NC has unwittingly provided an odd study for security…

  • DNC Protesters

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 5th, 2012No one study can hope to capture all that occurs over the many days of a political convention. But since TheAmerican Spark currently is…

  • DNC Charlotte Protests

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 30th, 2012Soon September will be upon us, and with it will come the Democratic National Convention (DNC) being held inCharlotte, NC from Sept. 4th-6th.Now let’s…

  • Privacy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2012It’s clear that America’s War of Terror is a war without a declared enemy – a war designed to fight bogeymen inthe dark, and…

  • Congressional Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2012If you’ve been concerned with the unwarranted secrecy which surrounds Congressional lawmaking, it perhaps should be mentioned that some Senators and House members have…

  • Republican Tax Inequality

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 9th, 2012Key Republican lawmakers have introduced tax deform bills which could only explode the deficit and shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the…

  • Federal Privacy Laws Outdated

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2012“Technological Changes Have Made Key Elements of [U.S.] Privacy Laws Outdated,” recently testified a leading member of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) before a…

  • Super Rich Tax Havens

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2012 The world’s wealthiest individuals may well have up to $32 trillion stashed away in secret tax havens, according to an explosive new report…

  • Whos Buying Barack Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 23rd, 2012Some days ago, The American Spark revealed who is buying the Romney presidential campaign. Now it’s time to unveil who are the top ‘contributors’…

  • Whos Buying Mitt Romney

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2012We at The American Spark feel that it is a reporter’s job to tell you what’s really going on in politics and society, and…

  • Us Income Inequality

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2012“U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most uneven of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the…