In Greenland Trade War, E.U. Holds Weapons Worth Over $8 Trillion
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 that.
Trans Pacific Partnership
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…
Oxfam Report On Wealth Inequality
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…
Us Looking To Fix Oversight Problems
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…
Islamic State No Credible Threat To Us
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…
Iraqi Prime Minister Says No U.S. Troops
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…
Feds Debate If Us Stands For Human Rights
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…
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…
Will Pentagon Buy Equipment From Foreign Nations
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 6th, 2013A number of U.S. lawmakers are quietly working to ease economic restrictions and allow Pentagon officials to buy numerous products and materials from foreign…
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…
Is Murdoch Empire About To Crumble
By Cliff Montgomery – July 18th, 2011These are tough times for Rupert Murdoch. But it’s becoming clear that the chairman and CEO of News Corporation–which owns FOX News and The…
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.…