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By Cliff Montgomery – July 6th, 2011Several corporations are fighting to keep you from knowing precisely how much their CEOs are being paid–specifically, they’re working to keep you from discovering…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 29th, 2011″Germany was forced to agree to bail out Greece for the second time in a year,” stated The London Guardian on June 17th, “under…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 24th, 2011The War of Terror has cost American taxpayers about $1.3 trillion so far and may cost $1.8 trillion by 2021, even as essential U.S.…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2011By nearly every measure, federal spying increased on American citizens and residents in 2010, stated a recently-released Justice Department (DoJ) report prepared for Congress.The…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 14th, 2011American Special Operations Forces (SOF) have rapidly grown across the board since Sept. 11th, 2001, with a new host of missions, swelling ranks and…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2011The corporate media may not be able to ask the tough questions about things like Iraq, the so-called ‘War onTerror’, or why not one…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 2nd, 2011A direct order from President Obama intended to declassify numerous federal records apparently is being ignored by the majority of executive branch agencies.Obama in…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 29th, 2011The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC-based think tank specializing in economic policy, earlier this month released a 10-page study…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2011A February Congressional Research Service report entitled, Political Transition in Tunisia, openly described the current revolutionary wave sweeping across the Middle East thus:”The Tunisia…

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…