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  • Read Mangione's full manifesto here.

    Read Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto On The Apparent Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

    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 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. At least one fake has been circulating online, which means that journalists and citizens alike must take care to ensure they have access to the actual treatise. But what is more troubling is the silence of corporate news on this very important matter. Such top corporate sources as The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN have all failed – or have simply…

  • Great Salt Lake May Dry Up In Five Years

    “Emergency measures [are] needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from [an] ongoing collapse,” according to a recent study released by a large group of universities and environmental groups.“If this loss…

  • Covid 19 Eviction Ban Ending

    “The Biden administration is weighing whether to extend a soon-expiring federal policy that prohibits landlords from evicting their cash-strapped tenants” during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post…

  • Contact Tracing For Covid 19

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 29th, 2020The Coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – has killed more people in the United States than in any other nation in the world…

  • Coronavirus Medicine And Human Rights

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the weakness and stupidity of the U.S. socio-economic system.The astronomical cost of the U.S. health care system has proven…

  • Medicare For All Saves Money And Lives

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2020Yesterday, the American Sparkdiscussed a study on the benefits of a Medicare-for-All system that wasrecently released by The Lancet, one the world’s top medical…

  • Global Warming And The Arctic

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2019“Record low extents of Arctic sea ice over the past decade have focused scientific and policy attention on links to global climate change [which…

  • Pentagon Firefighting Foam Danger To Health

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2018“As of August 2017, DOD [Department Of Defense] had identified 401 active or closed military installations with known or suspected releases” of potentially dangerous…

  • Solar Power Can Make Money For Citizens

    By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 19th, 2017A structure powered by solar energy often generates excess electricity. That extra power can be a financial boon to those who employ the technology…

  • FDA Public Health Data At Risk

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2016To perform its oversight duties, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) routinely maintains “sensitive industry and public health data, including proprietary business information…

  • FDA Failing To Monitor Drugs

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 15th, 2016As most Americans know, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with ensuring that pharmaceutical drugs released in the U.S. are safe and…

  • IPCC Climate Change Report

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 7th, 2014Fossilfuel-based power generated without Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)technology must be “phased out almost entirely by 2100” if human beingsare to avoid a dangerous…

  • Climate Change Puts America At Risk

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 22nd, 2014Although climate change has become a significant influence on the creation of national disasters, “the federal government is not well positioned to address the…

  • GOP Worst Environmental Record In Decades

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 13th, 2014House Republicans have the worst voting record on environmental matters in over 40 years, according to a group which tracks such legislative activity.The League…