Trump Attacks Pope Leo on Iran Comments, Because Pope Is Right
Trump proves that, if critiques are arrows, the only arrows that wound are the ones that hit the mark.
Trump Executive Order On Alien Nationals From Middle East
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…
Wealthiest 1% Have More Money Than Rest Of World
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…
Political Elite Losing Power
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…
Who Was Castro
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…
UK Report On Rationale For Iraq War
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…
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…