US News

  • 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…

  • Harsh Debate Not The Problem

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 11th, 2011Since the tragic shootings in Arizona, well-intentioned people from across the political spectrum have called for a strong change in the tone of social…

  • Stimulus Was Starting To Work

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 7th, 2010″During the third quarter of 2010, recipients reported, ARRA [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] funded more than 670,000 Full-Time-Equivalent jobs,” stated a recent…

  • Mountaintop Mining Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 22nd, 2010A study on federal oversight of surface coal mining in Appalachia was released last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It’s important, as…

  • Who Finances Us Debt

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2010The current global monetary system “allows the US to run high deficits and it prolongs a situation in whichcapital flows ‘uphill’…from poor countries to…