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By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 8th, 2025 “This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny.”Donald Trump,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2024 About two weeks ago, the world’s leading court for the investigation and punishment of war crimes took the large step of issuing arrest…

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…

The former Justice Department chief of staff contradicts Gonzales in congressional testimony.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was briefed regularly over two years on the dismissals of federal prosecutors, according to former…

If you have been searching for one clear-cut, impartial source that explains the “Ukraine Issue” and the subsequent impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, the American Spark has found it: A…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2020 The biggest politicalmatter in the U.S. at the moment is the impeachment of Donald Trump.Everyone knows that the issue revolves around the Trump…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 4th, 2018In the early 1940s, George Orwell wrote an allegorical tale about animals who take over a farm in the name of equal rights for…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2018Everyone understands why it is important to keep government officials from deciding what you may say, see, hear and read. An official who controls…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2018You hear it almost every day now: A litany of unproven accusations shuttled between the U.S. and Russian governments that paint one nation or…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 26th, 2017U.S. forces in the Middle East appear to be routinely employing artillery-delivered white phosphorus – a dangerous incendiary weapon – among civilian populations, according…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2017Trump’s travel bans on those from numerous Muslim-majority countries remain one of the most contested aspects of his White House rule, as they appear…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2017Trump’s first ten days in the White House have been quite a fascinating study in barely controlled chaos. But it appears that nothing has…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 28th, 2017A billionaire now sits in the White House.Another billionaire – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg – recently employed new algorithms on the social media site…

Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 23rd, 2016“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is out to destroy Hillary Clinton. Or that’s what she and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 6th, 2016Fidel Castro is dead.Whatever one’s view of the man, it’s clear that for more than half a century Castro had an undeniable impact on…

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 – Jan. 31st, 2016Project Gutenberg, the famed Internet source for older books that are no longer under copyright protection, rarely takes a stand on economic or political…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2015“80 people now have the same wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, down from 388 in 2010,” according to a recent…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2014Just a few years ago, the Defense Department announced plans to repair problems in the management of its nuclear forces. On Nov. 14th, the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th, 2014A few weeks ago on Meet The Press, President Obama declared he was “preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 17th, 2014 Iraq’s new prime minister today flatly rejected the notion that American forces – or any other foreign troops – would enter his country…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2014Does America actually stand for human rights? That depends on which federal bureaucrat you ask, according to a recent study from the Congressional Research…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2014Oleksander Turchynov, the acting president of Ukraine, today accused Russia of trying to push his country into “armed conflict” after reports came of Russian…