International

  • Trump Dead Wrong on Socialism

    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, in 2020 Well, you can’t expect a man who’s filed for business bankruptcy six times to know much about the economy… Perhaps the best way to answer Trump on this silly charge is to offer concrete examples of socialism that every American knows, and to just let citizens use their own working knowledge of these examples. Decide for yourselves whether these examples of socialism are destroying your dreams. Medicare is…

  • Obama Keeps Bush Foreign Spending

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 12th, 2010The Obama Administration pushes for Congress to fund many of the foreign operations begun or supportedby George W. Bush, according to a recently released…

  • War On Terrorism Costly

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 11th, 2010The so-called “war on terrorism” is the most costly military engagement in American history, with over onetrillion dollars appropriated for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan…

  • Us China Military Contacts

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 4th, 2010″Skeptics and proponents of military exchanges with [China]…have debated whether the contacts havesignificant value for achieving U.S. objectives, and whether the contacts have contributed…

  • Obama Widens Special Ops Use

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jun 6th, 2010The Obama Administration has greatly increased the worldwide activities of U.S. Special Operations militaryforces, The Washington Post stated this Friday.Obama is pitting the Special…

  • Possible Thailand Civil War

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 16th, 2010Thai protesters are continuing their fervent protests in Bangkok, as troops loyal to Prime Minister AbhisitVejjajiva move in to quash the center of a…

  • Afghanistan Public Opinion

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 24th, 2010Wikileaks recently made available an interesting CIA analysis written in March of this year. It reveals just how governments work to shape issues in…

  • Us Arms Exports

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2010The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a government watchdog group which “warn[s] the public and policy leaders of potential dangers from scientific and…

  • Us Taliban

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2009A number of Taliban members should be recruited for U.S. ends, say some within the Obama Administration.Their central idea is that such deals with…

  • Arms Transfer Agreements

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2009The United States was responsible for over 70% of the industrial world’s arms transfer agreements withdeveloping nations in 2008 , reveals a Congressional Research…

  • Pentagon Contractors Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 1st, 2009 U.S. Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan now outnumber the uniformed American military personnel in that country, declares a recent study from the Congressional…

  • House Members Bailout Firms

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 26th, 2009Top U.S. representatives had large holdings in the very financial institutions which received billions in taxpayerbailouts last year, declares recently released financial disclosure reports.From…

  • Health Care Is A Human Right

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 22nd, 2009A U.N. legal interpretation released in 2000 states that health care is a basic human right recognized by international law, declaring that “the right…

  • Us Government Dual Use Technology

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2009″Terrorists and foreign governments regularly [find ways] to obtain sensitive dual-use and military technologyfrom manufacturers and distributors within the United States,” according to a…

  • Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2009A May Government Accountability Office report on Afghanistan reveals that the U.S. emergency responseprogram intended to rebuild the war-torn nation is in trouble, and…

  • Private Soldiers In Iraq

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2009A Congressional Research Service report from 2008 discussed a matter which has barely received noticefrom America’s corporate press: The United States’ unprecedented use of…

  • Senator Lugar World Perception Us

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2009The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 13th released a study discussing how the U.S. mayrepair its badly damaged diplomatic relations with the rest…

  • Afghan Violence

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 6th, 2009American intelligence predicts that Afghanistan’s level of violence will climb through 2009, despite PresidentBarack Obama’s new plan for fighting the Taliban and providing additional…

  • World Economic Collapse

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 17th, 2009A March report from the Congressional Research Service precisely states what’s at stake thanks to theunmitigated greed and incompetence of Wall Street: nothing less…