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  • 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…

  • CIA And Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 28nd, 2011In 2009, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up a Center on Climate Change and National Security. Top heads at the Agency apparently understood…

  • Class Warfare

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 25th 2011There’s been a lot of talk about “class warfare” these days – but don’t be fooled.It’s the usual cry of fear from spoiled brats…

  • One In Six Americans In Poverty

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 18th, 2011“Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, [according to the …] Census Bureau,” declared The Washington Post on Sept. 13th,…

  • Millions Owe Jobs To Stimulus

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 6th, 2011As of June 2011, up to 2.9 million employed people owed their jobs to the economic stimulus package,according to a new Congressional Budget Office…

  • National Reconnaissance Office

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2011The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) creates, launches and operates America’s intelligence satellites. It has been especially active in the past 12 months.”We are nearly…

  • Us Aid UNion Attacks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 28th, 2011U.S. government aid to Columbia may have been diverted to undermine and attack union activists in the SouthAmerican country, according to press reports and…

  • GOP Wildly UNpopular

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2011A recent CNN poll reveals that holding American policy hostage with the manufactured “Debt Ceiling crisis” hasseverely hurt the popularity of both the Republican…

  • Dna Databanking

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 15th, 2011″Observers are now raising questions about the Fourth Amendment consistency of using [DNA] databases fornon-forensic purposes and for familial searching—that is, using the…databases to…