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By Cliff Montgomery – May 18th, 2011The twisted economic policies of America and other wealthy countries “are pushing us to the brink of social, economic and political unsustainability,” recently declared…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2011A top financial markets expert recently revealed the U.S. government’s stunning lack of legal oversight on foreclosures, and how it continues to plague our…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 8th, 2011 The American intelligence community is preparing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) which will discuss the security weaknesses brought on by the steady decline…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2011Imagine the following events…For the last several years, a certain nation–any nation, in any part of the world–has become known for such activities as…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2011Americans were told numerous lies as a justification for the fruitless nation-building of Iraq. Among those lieswas the boast that our armed forces invaded…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 25th, 2011The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in February issued a little-known–yet absolutely fascinating–report on the true state of America’s Afghan War.“No allied…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2011In late March, The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a preliminary study on the recent earthquake and tsunami that has crippled Japan.CRS reports are…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 13th, 2011The Wisconsin election for State Supreme Court justice is beginning to look oddly familiar–and once again, computer e-mails may help to uncover the truth.To…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 7th, 2011Today, The American Spark offers its readers a quick reminder that some of the most sweeping expansionsof federal surveillance power may soon expire.But those…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the fifth–and final–part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the fourth part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 27th, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the third part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the second part of its short history on American Labor. Check out the first informative part here.Why…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 16th, 2011″What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails, more books and less arsenals, more learning and less vice, more leisure and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2011Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican accomplices in the state Senate have proven themselves more clever than smart, after quickly ramming through stripped-down…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 3rd, 2011One thing is clear about Wisconsin’s budget impasse: Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to deny the natural rights of assembly and speech to public-sector workers–rights…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 25th, 2011Is Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, employing a strong dose of “shock and awe” on America’s workers? It certainly seems so to Naomi Klein, journalist…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2011Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin plans to strip public workers of their Natural Right to assemble–specifically, their right to collectively ask for anything but…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2011Since 1988, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has published The State of Working America, an annual comprehensive economic study which has greatly served policy-makers,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2011An Egyptian populace in open revolt has broken much of the oppressive power structure in its country, forcingformer President Hosni Mubarak into retirement and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2011Human Rights Watch (HRW) just released a damning report regarding the police state of Egypt’s current tyrant, President Hosni Mubarak.Among other crimes, the study–entitled,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2011Conservative economic policy over the last 35 years has produced the greatest economic inequality inAmerica since the dawn of the Great Depression, according to…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2011It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair In August 2010,…