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  • FDA Lacks Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2010The federal agency that oversees public health barely monitors its own investigative activities, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).…

  • Pentagon Sexual Assault Prevention

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2010The Defense Department and the U.S. Coast Guard need to further improve their prevention and response tooccurrences of sexual assault, according to expert testimony…

  • Market Crash In 2013

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 22nd, 2010Corporate Debt accumulated during the George W. Bush years of eased regulation may create a secondeconomic crash by 2013, according to DailyFinance, a financial…

  • Military Suicides

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2010Service-member suicides are “definitely” higher than official U.S. Army stats suggest, according to the Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors, a G.I. activist group…

  • Republicans Federal Debt

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2010America’s federally mandated debt limit has been raised numerous times over the last 10 years, reveals aU.S. government study released in January.There is only…

  • Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2010To hear the corporate press spin the recent GOP victory in Massachusetts–in which Scott Brown defeatedDemocrat Martha Coakley to take the U.S. Senate seat…

  • Us Arms Exports

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2010The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a government watchdog group which “warn[s] the public and policy leaders of potential dangers from scientific and…

  • Derivatives

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2010America’s economy has greatly suffered, in large part thanks to risky Wall Street speculation on future trends in volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign…

  • Stiglitz Testimony On Wall Street

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 22nd, 2010Today the House Committee on Financial Services held a full committee hearing on the Performance andIncentives of America’s Financial Sector. Perhaps the most engaging…

  • Drug Prices

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2010In these days of slowed but continued economic depression, it’s good to discover such little-knowngovernment studies as the one quietly released in December 2009…

  • Us Health Care

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 12th, 2009As the U.S. Congress works to finalize its health care reform legislation, it must be pointed out that the House and Senate bills fail…

  • Us Health Care Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 7th, 2010 The most current falsehood floating around the U.S. health care debate appears to be the oldest typical neo-conservative sophism against change. It is…

  • Us Financial Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 3rd, 2010U.S. financial regulation is piecemeal and many essential financial activities remain completely unregulated, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).…

  • Military Commissions

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 27th, 2009The United States for the last several years has used military commissions to try suspected terroristsdetained at Guantanamo and elsewhere.In a criminal trial, the…

  • Sec Recommendations Ignored

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 22nd, 2009The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to implement 224 recommendations submitted byits Inspector General since December 2007–or more than 60% of those…

  • Senators Health Care Poll

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 16th, 2009The U.S. public now sees Congressional plans to change America’s health-care system as little more than adisaster which can only create higher medical costs…

  • Senators Public Option

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2009Recently have the feeling you’ve been cheated?No doubt that notion has been buzzing about your mind the last few days, if you’re among the…

  • Health Insurance Public Option

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 8th, 2009Senate Republicans who are opposed to any kind of public health-insurance option for you hope to requiremembers of Congress and all essential members of…

  • Bernanke

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 4th, 2009The American Spark normally does not openly condone the actions of a particular social organization. But wefeel the group A New Way Forward–which works…

  • Us Taliban

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2009A number of Taliban members should be recruited for U.S. ends, say some within the Obama Administration.Their central idea is that such deals with…

  • Us Poverty

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2009The Great Recession has shown an awful ability to drive hard-working Americans into poverty–and to makepoverty especially dire for those who already had nothing.The…

  • Katrina Negligence

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 20th, 2009The U.S. government may end up paying billions of dollars in damages to New Orleans residents, now that a federal judge has ruled that…

  • Wage Theft

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2009Employers are increasingly engaging in acts of wage theft against their workers, according to recent reportsfrom the Government Accountability Office (GAO).The GAO conducted an…