Public Libraries Starving For Public Funds
Public libraries are hurting, thanks to years of neglect and lack of public investment, according to a recent federal report.
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…
Half Of Fed Debt Created In Bush Years
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…
Obama Keeps Bush Foreign Spending
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…
No Standards For Digital Medical Files
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…
Gao Public Protest Data
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…
Gaming The Banking System
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…
Depleted Uranium Iraq
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…
Wall Street Rigging Oversight
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…
War On Terrorism Costly
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…
Us China Military Contacts
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 4th, 2010″Skeptics and proponents of military exchanges with [China]…have debated whether the contacts havesignificant value for achieving U.S. objectives, and whether the contacts have contributed…
Us Secrecy Costs Hit Record High
By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2010Federal officials in 2009 charged taxpayers a record $9.93 billion to pay for the classification of activitiesperformed by both government and industry, according to…
Government Secrecy Risks Lives
By Cliff Montgomery – July 26th, 2010White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the documents on Afghanistan released today by WikiLeaks”pose a very real threat” to American forces–even as he…
Clean Coal Problems
By Cliff Montgomery – July 22nd, 2010Employing so-called ‘Clean Coal’ technology at U.S. power plants may create a host of legal and economicproblems, according to an instructive Government Accountability Office…
Top Secret America
By Cliff Montgomery – July 19th, 2010A massive and largely unaccountable spy network created by the U.S. government shortly after 9/11 now is sohuge that it may be impossible to…
Us Detainess Medical Experiments
By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2010Last month, a white paper released by the medical group Physicians for Human Rights discussed a harrowing matter:”Investigation and analysis of US government documents…