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The war on Iran has proven one thing with crystal clarity: Trump is a terrible negotiator.

Our fruitless attempts at nation-building end up creating the very tyrannies we claim we want to stop. Just look at what it did to Iran.

“The Trump Administration still hasn’t been able to land on one coherent answer” as to why he started bombing Iran, points out the Guardian.

If used, the “Anti-Coercion Instrument” (ACI) would hammer the finances of some of Trump’s leading wealthy supporters,

Threat of a trade war with the E.U. led to the S&P 500 losing over $1.2 trillion in just a single day. Trump could not take a long-term defeat like…

Though agents may only employ “objectively reasonable” force, in reality there have been numerous legal actions regarding questionable practices.

Legal experts agree that the kidnappings of a foreign president and his wife on disproven claims is a stunningly obvious crime.

Last month, Columbian President Gustavo Petro spoke before a U.N. General Assembly and simply referred to the bombings as “murder.”

A defense of a person or group based on genocidal thinking is simply an unintended confession. And its helps no one.

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 25th, 2025 It’s become quite difficult to find the actual, short and concise manifesto Luigi Mangione wrote about his motives for the apparent shooting and…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2025 The Washington Post invented a crisp little quip about Donald Trump during his initial run for the U.S presidency in 2016. They noted…

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…