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By Cliff Montgomery – June 26th, 2009Top U.S. representatives had large holdings in the very financial institutions which received billions in taxpayerbailouts last year, declares recently released financial disclosure reports.From…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 22nd, 2009A U.N. legal interpretation released in 2000 states that health care is a basic human right recognized by international law, declaring that “the right…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2009President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 will continue a dangerous under-funding of theConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the top federal regulator of…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2009There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years on precisely what–if anything–the American people need to know about their government: how…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2009″Terrorists and foreign governments regularly [find ways] to obtain sensitive dual-use and military technologyfrom manufacturers and distributors within the United States,” according to a…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 4th, 2009Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to bail out Wall Street tycoons. Thus it’s perhaps understandable that the feds would hire private…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2009Oil prices soon will post their greatest one-month spike since May, 1999. It’s still too early to determine if thissharp rise will usher in…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 26th, 2009The Obama Administration is quietly creating a Defense Department command which will “develop newoffensive cyber-weapons,” according to a little-noticed article in The Washington Post…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2009There is discussion in the White House and on Capitol Hill of extending taxpayer-funded bailouts to a host ofother huge financial institutions, under the…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2009A May Government Accountability Office report on Afghanistan reveals that the U.S. emergency responseprogram intended to rebuild the war-torn nation is in trouble, and…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2009A Congressional Research Service report from 2008 discussed a matter which has barely received noticefrom America’s corporate press: The United States’ unprecedented use of…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 11th, 2009When photos of torture at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison surfaced in 2004, Bush Administration officials quicklypainted Army Private Charles Graner Jr. as the de-facto…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 7th, 2009The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a not-for-profit organization which promotes “corporate and governmental accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2009The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 13th released a study discussing how the U.S. mayrepair its badly damaged diplomatic relations with the rest…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 27th, 2009A Pentagon agency which advised the Bush Administration against the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects flatly called the employment of extreme…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 23rd, 2009Top executives at Chrysler Financial spurned a much-needed government loan because they couldn’t bringthemselves to accept its conditional pay limits, stated a study released…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2009Nearly one quarter of U.S. households fell into danger of losing their homes during the first three months of2009–a free-fall that certainly will grow…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr, 13th, 2009The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) is meant to protect servicemembers from “judicial andadministrative proceedings and transactions that may adversely affect their legal rights…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8th, 2009Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) last Thursday on the Senate floor exposed a number of GOP distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies regarding that chamber’s Fiscal…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 6th, 2009American intelligence predicts that Afghanistan’s level of violence will climb through 2009, despite PresidentBarack Obama’s new plan for fighting the Taliban and providing additional…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 2nd, 2009The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a tough review exposing the InteriorDepartment’s poor oversight of oil and gas companies which are allowed to…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2009A billion people will live in famine as global food security breaks down in the coming decades, states a top U.S.scientist.State Department chief scientist…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2009Senate Republicans appear set to effectively kill any reasonable attempt to reclaim the bonuses which”bailout” companies like insurance giant American International Group (AIG) are…