International

  • It wasn’t that long ago that Trump was leading the calls to ban the popular app from the U.S.

    Is Trump’s Pledge To Save TikTok App His ‘January Surprise?’

    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 that Trump’s political positions are rather like the weather in New England – if you don’t how things are blowing at the moment, just hang in there, because the weather is sure to change completely in 20 minutes. Now Trump clearly is trying to make a rare appeal to youth culture by claiming that he “saved” the popular TikTok app from being banned in the U.S.A. Already, he appears to…

  • Us Russia Nuke Agreements

    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…

  • Gao Study On TSA Profiling

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 13th, 2013Since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed a program which profiles airlinepassengers “without validating its scientific basis” or performance, a federal watchdog…

  • Drone Attacks Amnesty Report

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 25th, 2013Readers may remember the joint news conference held on October 22nd, 2013 by Human Rights Watch andAmnesty International, in which the groups pointed out…

  • Drone Attacks Human Rights Watch

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 24th, 2013Readers perhaps have heard of the joint news conference held on October 22nd, 2013 by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, in which the…

  • Us Aid To Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 4th, 2013In February, the Obama Administration boldly declared that the American-led coalition in Afghanistan had successfully employed over 350,000 indigenous military and law enforcement officials…

  • Human Trafficking

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2012Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney loves to humor business people by consistently calling them “job creators.” But some of those “job creators” are chiefly…

  • Japanese Nuclear Power

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 5th, 2012“On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced its worst earthquake in the 140 years of recorded history ofearthquake measurements,” recently stated The Federation of American…

  • Wealthy Often Worse People

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 23rd, 2012“[The upper class behaves like a person who beats] the neighbors’ expensive cars with a baseball bat, with the sole objective of owning the…

  • Oil Companies Gas Prices

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2012For the five major oil companies, “market price and the production of key products are not closely related,” according to a recent federal study.The…

  • Romney Tax Haven

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2012It’s rather well known that an individual running for a U.S. political office must release a financial disclosure form.The official delusion is that these…

  • Egypt And Democracy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2011Members of the U.S. corporate media have put on quite a show of apparent confusion over the new wave ofrevolutionary protest in Egypt. The…

  • Rich Countries Selling Weapons

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2011Led by American officials, arms-exporting wealthy governments are shipping massive amounts of traditional weapons to poor countries, stated a recent study from the Congressional…

  • Adam Curtis On Rupert Murdoch

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2011″Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation]…and sometimes the BBC doesn’t seem to like Rupert Murdoch either,” top U.K. documentary filmmaker Adam…

  • Greece Imf

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 29th, 2011″Germany was forced to agree to bail out Greece for the second time in a year,” stated The London Guardian on June 17th, “under…

  • War Of Terror Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 24th, 2011The War of Terror has cost American taxpayers about $1.3 trillion so far and may cost $1.8 trillion by 2021, even as essential U.S.…

  • Free Speech In Iraq

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2011Americans were told numerous lies as a justification for the fruitless nation-building of Iraq. Among those lieswas the boast that our armed forces invaded…

  • Us Failures Shape Afghan War

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 25th, 2011The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in February issued a little-known–yet absolutely fascinating–report on the true state of America’s Afghan War.“No allied…

  • Congress Report On Japan Earthquake

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2011In late March, The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a preliminary study on the recent earthquake and tsunami that has crippled Japan.CRS reports are…

  • Egyptian Army

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2011An Egyptian populace in open revolt has broken much of the oppressive power structure in its country, forcingformer President Hosni Mubarak into retirement and…

  • Pakistan Nuke Controls

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2011Control of Pakistan’s nuclear warheads remains a serious concern despite a number of reforms in that country since Sept. 11th, 2001, according to a…

  • Contractors In Iraq And Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 1st, 2010The Pentagon seriously needs to restructure its oversight of contractors involved in military engagements like Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Congressional study released…