Trump Still Can’t Explain Why He’s Bombing Iran
“The Trump Administration still hasn’t been able to land on one coherent answer” as to why he started bombing Iran, points out the Guardian.
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…
Adam Curtis On Rupert Murdoch
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2011″Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation]…and sometimes the BBC doesn’t seem to like Rupert Murdoch either,” top U.K. documentary filmmaker Adam…