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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…