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.
Sub Minimum Wage
Most U.S. citizens know that their country has created a federal minimum wage — and that it is woefully inadequate for basic human needs. But few have heard that employers…
Time For The Wealthy To Pay Their Share Of Taxes
Imagine being the owner of a fancy restaurant. One day a small group of people come in to your establishment. They demand much more food than the other customers, and…
Great Salt Lake May Dry Up In Five Years
“Emergency measures [are] needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from [an] ongoing collapse,” according to a recent study released by a large group of universities and environmental groups.“If this loss…
Newspapers Call For US to Drop Charges Against Assange
It perhaps has not been much noticed much over the holidays, but in November, the editors and publishers of five of the world’s best-known news organizations released an open letter…
Rep. McCarthy January 6th Panel
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has hinted that the incoming Republican majority will investigate the Jan. 6th Committee Investigation.“The American people have a right to know that the allegations you…
Biden Administration Actions And January 6th Committee
“A series of decisions by the Biden Administration” was a “salient factor contributing to the [U.S. House January 6th] Committee’s robust and timely access to relevant evidence” regarding the failed…
Slaughterhouses May Have Employed Children for Graveyard Shift
Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) is a major U.S. food safety sanitation company. And it may be in some very hot water right now.On Nov. 9th, the Labor Department filed…
U.S. Insurance Markets Offer Little Competition
Remember how U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle looked voters in the eye a few years ago and told them that they ‘didn’t need a public health care…
Who is to Blame for Current Economic Mess
Why the hell are prices so high?Let’s face it, this is the reason so many U.S. voters are checking out Republican candidates these days. If the conservative party does well…
We’re Back
It’s been a while since the American Spark has produced its usual, up-to-the minute articles. And it’s true — we have been kept from publishing such articles for a while…
Possible Charges for Service members Involved in Jan Insurrection
On Jan. 6th, Trump supporters tried and failed to perpetrate a coup for their ‘great leader’, who has proven himself incapable of winning a popular vote in this country by…
Covid 19 Eviction Ban Ending
“The Biden administration is weighing whether to extend a soon-expiring federal policy that prohibits landlords from evicting their cash-strapped tenants” during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post…
How Trump Sells A Lie
Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump and his minions tend to follow the basic four-step rhetorical process already set for them by the neo-conservative (called neo-liberal in the rest of the…
Can We Now Admit That Trump Is A Fascist
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 13th, 2021The march had been planned for a while. Those who made up the march to the nation’s capital sometimes were fueled by hatred of…
Economic Fallout From Coronavirus Hardest On Poor Hispanic And Black Americans
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2020Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been hard on all of us. But the pandemic’s economic fallout has been harder on lower-income Americans,…
70 Percent Of People On Welfare Are Full Time Workers
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 28th, 2020“Millions of American adults who earn low wages rely on federal programs to meet basic needs, such as Medicaid for health care and the…
History Shows Need To Carefully Consider Supreme Court Justice Nominee
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 19th, 2020There is now a strong push from U.S. President Donald Trump and his political minions to quickly appoint Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme…
Police Use Of Force At VA Medical Centers
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2020There currently is a lot of protest over the unnecessary use of force that police officers use on U.S. citizens, with a special emphasis…
Contact Tracing For Covid 19
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 29th, 2020The Coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – has killed more people in the United States than in any other nation in the world…
Some New England Homes Made With Faulty Foundations
By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2020“In recent years, homes in northeastern Connecticut and central Massachusetts built in 1983–2015 have begun to exhibit . . . damage” thanks to “concrete…
Congress Law Enforcement And Excessive Force
By Cliff Montgomery – July 25th, 2020The excessive – and occasionally deadly – use of force by America’s law enforcement has been a major social issue this summer. The recent…
Coronavirus Medicine And Human Rights
By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the weakness and stupidity of the U.S. socio-economic system.The astronomical cost of the U.S. health care system has proven…
Lack Of Fact Based Coronavirus Plan Will Get Americans Killed
By Cliff Montgomery – June 1st, 2020Yesterday, the American Spark quoted the first half of Dr. Rick Bright’s eye-opening testimony on the Trump Administration’s handling of the coronavirus. Dr. Bright…
