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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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]…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 16th, 2010Nearly half of America’s federal debt was accumulated from 2002 to 2008–years in which George W. Bushwas president, reveals a U.S. government study released…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 12th, 2010The Obama Administration pushes for Congress to fund many of the foreign operations begun or supportedby George W. Bush, according to a recently released…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 5th, 2010For over 20 years, technology companies have fought every attempt to create a stronger democratic oversightof digital health record systems. And the Obama Administration…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 1st, 2010The federal bureau which approves Big Oil’s purchases of resources on public land keeps a rather poor recordof citizen protests, according to a study…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2010A recent study by a true grassroots network reveals how the big banks gamed America’s economic system atyour expense–and it’s expressed in clear, easy-to-understand…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 23rd, 2010The apparent spike in cancer and infant mortality rates for Fallujah, Iraq since 2005 should make everyonereconsider the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 17th, 2010Though federal officials recently passed sweeping financial oversightlegislation, many of the day-to-day rules that will give that law realteeth will be written by regulators…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 11th, 2010The so-called “war on terrorism” is the most costly military engagement in American history, with over onetrillion dollars appropriated for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan…