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  • Japanese Nuclear Power

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 5th, 2012“On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced its worst earthquake in the 140 years of recorded history ofearthquake measurements,” recently stated The Federation of American…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People02

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2012A very interesting article was published by The London Guardian in November. It bravely – and correctly -pointed out that the wealthy among us…

  • Special Ops

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 29th, 2012U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing an increasing role in military operations even though their activities often are classified and thus outside public…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 23rd, 2012“[The upper class behaves like a person who beats] the neighbors’ expensive cars with a baseball bat, with the sole objective of owning the…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 23rd, 2012“[The upper class behaves like a person who beats] the neighbors’ expensive cars with a baseball bat, with the sole objective of owning the…

  • Oil Companies Gas Prices

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2012For the five major oil companies, “market price and the production of key products are not closely related,” according to a recent federal study.The…

  • Koch Brothers Poison Democracy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 7th, 2012Only the [violent] mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.…

  • It Costs To Meet President

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2012 Let’s be honest: America is not a democracy. At best, it is a plutocracy owned by our wealthiest few. And those few buy…

  • Pentagon Spies

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2012“Some lawmakers reportedly have expressed concern that the Pentagon is creating a parallel intelligencecapability independent from the CIA or other American authorities, and one…

  • 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…

  • To Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2012The American Spark normally does not actively engage in protest. But recently our online service has felt a need to stop U.S. lawmakers’ mad…

  • 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…