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By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2016In January of this year, Trump apparently declared he was so popular with his political base that he might attempt to commit murder in…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 14th, 2016In all the talk about Donald Trump and the now-infamous ‘video’ first released by the Washington Post, it seems to us at the Spark…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2016To perform its oversight duties, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) routinely maintains “sensitive industry and public health data, including proprietary business information…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 24th, 2016The current lack of transparency maintained by U.S. police forces – especially regarding its activities in and around American black communities – has come…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 5th, 2016Even though U.S. officialshave long claimed that the National Security Agency (NSA) possesses onlya limited, minimal legal authority to collect data on Internetcommunications, a…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2016Although a number of federal agencies collect data on sexual violence, “differences across the data collection efforts … lead to varying estimates of sexual…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 19th. 2016On Aug. 16th, the American Spark revealed the top individual contributors to the Clinton presidential campaign today, we look at Donald Trump’s leading donors.Trump…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 16th, 2016In 2016, the American political system offers a real choice for the country’s next president: Voters may choose between a leading Washington insider who…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 28th, 2016WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told Democracy Now that the U.S. presidential candidates for the 2016 election – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton -…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 18th, 2016Most people have heard of Britain’s recently-released Iraq War inquiry report, and its damning verdict that the WMD-related case which served as the basis…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2016“Since the enactment of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, there have been notable changes in how states and local election jurisdictions conduct…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2016The U.S. Senate is quietly considering “legislation that would empower the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to obtain your Internet records without a warrant”…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 30th, 2016 Congress is considering two bills which might expand the ability of the public to discover what U.S. government officials are actually doing in…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 18th, 2016 The modern world’s trend toward greater human health and longevity has, in recent years, all but ceased for poorly-educated white Americans. The death…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 15th, 2016The modern world’s trend toward greater human health and longevity has, in recent years, all but ceased for poorly-educated white Americans. In fact, the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2016Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about the ‘weakness of U.S. immigrant laws’ in his stump speeches. He apparently feels that it’s a…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2016“In each year from 2006 to 2012, at least two-thirds of all active corporations had no federal income tax liability,” declares a little-discussed study…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 28th, 2016This U.S. election cycle has produced two of the more interesting presidential candidates in recent memory: a proudly elitist billionaire and an avowed socialist.…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 16th, 2016Are the consumer labels which describe Genetically Engineered (GE) foods – those foods derived from scientific methods used to introduce new traits or characteristics…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 1st, 2016It’s been said that America has ‘the best democracy money can buy’. That’s why has worked to uncover who has quietly been buying our…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2016Who is buying America’s presidential candidates? That can be a tough mystery to unravel.One doesn’t just count donations from individual people and entities. There…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 25th, 2016Who is buying the 2016 presidential candidates? is here to tell you.It can be a tough matter to untangle. One doesn’t just count donations…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2016The U.S. may possess the most powerful modern weapons on earth – so it’s a shame that America’s armed forces don’t always know where…