Trump Pardoned Convicted Drug Racketeer And Right-Wing Politician
Late last month, Trump proved that all his talk about stopping the flow of drugs in Latin American has been a pack of lies.
Debt Ceiling Deal
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 3rd, 2011On Aug. 1st, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a damning indictment of the Debt ceiling agreementput together by Congress, declaring that it “concludes…
Debt Ceiling Is A Charade
By Cliff Montgomery – July 29th, 2011The American economy is at the crossroads, you are told by the billionaire and millionaire shareholders runningthe corporate media.We are in a crisis of…
Gao High Risk List
By Cliff Montgomery – July 24th, 2011″[The Department of] Interior does not have reasonable assurance that it is collecting its share of billions of dollars of revenue from oil and…
Rep Weiner And Sexual Smears
By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2011The corporate media may not be able to ask the tough questions about things like Iraq, the so-called ‘War onTerror’, or why not one…
Bush Policies Broke Public Budget
By Cliff Montgomery – May 29th, 2011The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC-based think tank specializing in economic policy, earlier this month released a 10-page study…
Social Justice
By Cliff Montgomery – May 18th, 2011The twisted economic policies of America and other wealthy countries “are pushing us to the brink of social, economic and political unsustainability,” recently declared…
Foreclosures UNregulated
By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2011A top financial markets expert recently revealed the U.S. government’s stunning lack of legal oversight on foreclosures, and how it continues to plague our…
Us Maufacturing Weakness
By Cliff Montgomery – May 8th, 2011 The American intelligence community is preparing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) which will discuss the security weaknesses brought on by the steady decline…
Is Wi GOP Official Helping Walker
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 13th, 2011The Wisconsin election for State Supreme Court justice is beginning to look oddly familiar–and once again, computer e-mails may help to uncover the truth.To…
Short History Of Labor05
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the fifth–and final–part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…
Short History Of Labor04
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the fourth part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…
Short History Of Labor03
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 27th, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the third part of its short history on American Labor.Why publish this quick study? Because many may…
Short History Of Labor02
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2011The American Spark is proud to present the second part of its short history on American Labor. Check out the first informative part here.Why…
Short History Of Labor01
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 16th, 2011″What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails, more books and less arsenals, more learning and less vice, more leisure and…
Wisconsin Anti UNion Bill
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2011Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican accomplices in the state Senate have proven themselves more clever than smart, after quickly ramming through stripped-down…
Wisconsin Power Grab
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 3rd, 2011One thing is clear about Wisconsin’s budget impasse: Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to deny the natural rights of assembly and speech to public-sector workers–rights…
Wisconsin Shock Doctrine
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 25th, 2011Is Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker, employing a strong dose of “shock and awe” on America’s workers? It certainly seems so to Naomi Klein, journalist…
Wisconsin Governor
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2011Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin plans to strip public workers of their Natural Right to assemble–specifically, their right to collectively ask for anything but…
Working America
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2011Since 1988, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has published The State of Working America, an annual comprehensive economic study which has greatly served policy-makers,…
Top Income Earners Gain As You Lose
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2011Conservative economic policy over the last 35 years has produced the greatest economic inequality inAmerica since the dawn of the Great Depression, according to…
Social Security Quite Sound
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2011It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair In August 2010,…
Economic Outlook Poor
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2011The lack of a second economic stimulus for the U.S.A. and other developed countries will “provide a drag on the global recovery and pose…