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  • Wisconsin Anti UNion Bill

    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…

  • Wisconsin Power Grab

    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…

  • Wisconsin Shock Doctrine

    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…

  • Wisconsin Governor

    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…

  • Working America

    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,…

  • Egyptian Army

    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…

  • Mubarak Tortured Egyptians For Years

    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,…

  • Top Income Earners Gain As You Lose

    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…

  • Social Security Quite Sound

    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,…

  • 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…