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  • Economic Outlook Poor

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2011The lack of a second economic stimulus for the U.S.A. and other developed countries will “provide a drag on the global recovery and pose…

  • Pakistan Nuke Controls

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2011Control of Pakistan’s nuclear warheads remains a serious concern despite a number of reforms in that country since Sept. 11th, 2001, according to a…

  • Harsh Debate Not The Problem

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 11th, 2011Since the tragic shootings in Arizona, well-intentioned people from across the political spectrum have called for a strong change in the tone of social…

  • GOP Hides Federal Health Care Use

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 6th, 2011On Wednesday, the newly-minted GOP-run U.S. House of Representatives passed a rules package intended to establish how the legislature will operate this year.But perhaps…

  • Artic Exploitation

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 29th, 2010Ever wonder why business people and their conservative cronies continually deny the obvious realities of global warming and attendant climate change? Perhaps their wishful…

  • Let Assange Speak For Himself

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 19th, 2010There’s currently a lot of wild-eyed screaming from the corporate media about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Thus we at the American Spark…

  • Experts Admit Wikileaks Mission

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 10th, 2010″Executive secrecy is one of the monarchial customs…and [is] certainly fatal to republican government… How can national self-government exist without a knowledge of national…

  • Stimulus Was Starting To Work

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 7th, 2010″During the third quarter of 2010, recipients reported, ARRA [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] funded more than 670,000 Full-Time-Equivalent jobs,” stated a recent…

  • Greenhouse Gases

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 1st, 2010Concentrated amounts of the major greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere now are at their highest level inindustrial times, the United Nations’ weather agency declared…

  • International Code Private Security

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 27th, 2010This month in Geneva, Switzerland, over 20 private security contractors (PSCs) are slated to meet with representatives from governmental and non-governmental groups from across…

  • Mountaintop Mining Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 22nd, 2010A study on federal oversight of surface coal mining in Appalachia was released last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It’s important, as…

  • Who Finances Us Debt

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2010The current global monetary system “allows the US to run high deficits and it prolongs a situation in whichcapital flows ‘uphill’…from poor countries to…

  • Veterans Affairs Insurance

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 10th, 2010On the eve of Veterans’ Day, the American Spark feels it’s only right to discuss just how well our nation treats our heroes’ families…

  • Republicans Will Solve Nothing

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 5th, 2010″If the news outlets were actually reporting, they would tell us the honest and awful truth,” writes Elizabeth Wurtzel today in The Guardian. The…

  • Wall Street Foreclosures

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 1st, 2010″Wall Street titans have a new sweet spot–as surrogate taxcollectors,” states the lead-in for a fascinating video from TheHuffington Post Investigative Fund.”[Wall Street sees]…

  • Wealthiest Gain As We Lose

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2010The wealthiest in the United States have seen a five-fold increase in their average incomes from 2008, even asthe Great Recession continues to destroy…

  • Broadband Access For Citizens

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2010The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in September released a study on the importance ofproviding citizens with a broadband Internet service.As the GAO report…

  • Obama Wont Sign Foreclosure Bill

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 11th, 2010There has been a growing tide of righteous anger in America over the presumed legitimacy of this country’sforeclosure proceedings.A wave of foreclosures helped create…

  • Poverty In America

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2010The ‘Out of Poverty Caucus’ is a newly formed Congressional organization dedicated “to raising awarenessabout the millions of Americans who live without adequate food,…

  • Contractors In Iraq And Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 1st, 2010The Pentagon seriously needs to restructure its oversight of contractors involved in military engagements like Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Congressional study released…

  • Nobody Is Most Popular Candidate

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th 2010Want to fill the voting booths this November with enthusiastic voters hungry for real change? A true alternativeto America’s two useless political parties should…

  • FBI Faulted For Investigations

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 21st, 2010The FBI from 2001 to 2006 conducted probes of non-violent U.S. activists, classifying their actions of civildisobedience as “acts of terrorism,” according to a…