U.S. Senator Explains How Trump Breaks Law By Impounding Funds
U.S. Senator Party Murray (D-WA) has called out Trump on his “illegal and uconstitutional scheme to withhold funding” for American communities.
Obama Whistleblowers
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 24th, 2012It’s a rare occurrence, but every now and again a member of the corporate media actually does his job.ABC’s Jake Tapper recently held the…
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2012The federal government’s deployment of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) within U.S. airspace is greater than normally recognized and is all but sure to increase…
Congressional Millionaires
Your Subtitle HereBy Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2012Why are Congressional lawmakers so clearly out of touch with you and the other 99% of Americans? Perhaps it’s because almost half…
Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2012The difference between the paltry income earned by U.S. laborers and the massive amounts of money collected by owners of capital has been documented…
Romney Tax Haven
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2012It’s rather well known that an individual running for a U.S. political office must release a financial disclosure form.The official delusion is that these…
Cell Phone Tracking
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 10th, 2012There’s an ongoing debate in legal circles over the federal government’s “right” to track private vehicles and cell phones, according to a recently released…
Humans To Blame For Global Warming
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2011The proof is in: Global warming is all too real and we human beings are to blame, revealed a study released lastmonth by the…
Civil Liberties Board No Members
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 30 2011The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created to serve as an independent body which wouldoversee U.S. ‘counter-terrorism policies’.That almost sounds decent. Except…
Funding Attacks On Elizabeth Warren
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 28th, 2011Crossroads ‘Grassroots’ Policy Strategies (GPS)–one among many neo-conservative ideological groups whichpretends to be run and funded by ordinary people, but in fact is funded…
Spies Need To Study Global Warming
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 21st, 2011America’s spy network needs a group that can investigate the full impacts of global warming in a straightforward and public manner, stated a recent…
Simple Guide To Us Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2011America’s growing income inequality now can be more easily understood, thanks to a simple guide recently released from a top budget policy organization.“The Center…
Egypt And Democracy
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2011Members of the U.S. corporate media have put on quite a show of apparent confusion over the new wave ofrevolutionary protest in Egypt. The…
Taxpayer Billions Wasted On Contractors
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2011In September, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) released a damning indictment of our federal government’s “assumption that shifting work to the private sector…
Iran Nukes
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 27th, 2011The United Nation’s atomic energy agency “has ‘broken the rules’ by publicly releasing a report on Iran’snuclear program that should have been kept confidential,”…
Review Of FBI Police State Powers
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 18th, 2011A Congressional report published in April offers a steady look into the mind-set of America’s current police state.This police state continually demands more invasive…
Useless War Spending
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 6th, 2011“Last week marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement of what was to be a radical new approach to missile defense — the…
Us War Training
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 30th, 2011The U.S. trains a host of foreign military personnel but often fails to teach them to respect human rights, states a recent report from…
Government Secrecy
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 23rd, 2011“Real power begins where secrecy begins.”- Hannah Arendt (The Origin of Totalitarianism, 1951)The United States and some other nations now possess security services that…
Occupy Movement
Caption: Protesters at an Occupy Charlotte rally, Oct. 1st, 2011. All photos courtesy of Grant Baldwin.Mr. Baldwin also was a tremendous help in providing much-needed information for this article.By Cliff…
Doctor Works To End Greed In Medicine
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 13th, 2011 Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are once again in Washington, DC.Are they demanding another bailout from their paid errand boys, our Washington politicians?…
Rich Countries Selling Weapons
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2011Led by American officials, arms-exporting wealthy governments are shipping massive amounts of traditional weapons to poor countries, stated a recent study from the Congressional…
Nypd Bologna Thug With A Badge
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2011Those who get their information from the corporate media may not know that for the last several days, Wall Street–the corporate world’s Mecca, and…