Congress Given Oversight Manual To Reign In Presidency, Courts
At a moment when the president openly refers to himself as a king, the power of Congress to conduct oversight has become vitally important.
Funding Attacks On Elizabeth Warren
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 28th, 2011Crossroads ‘Grassroots’ Policy Strategies (GPS)–one among many neo-conservative ideological groups whichpretends to be run and funded by ordinary people, but in fact is funded…
Simple Guide To Us Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2011America’s growing income inequality now can be more easily understood, thanks to a simple guide recently released from a top budget policy organization.“The Center…
Taxpayer Billions Wasted On Contractors
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2011In September, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) released a damning indictment of our federal government’s “assumption that shifting work to the private sector…
Useless War Spending
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 6th, 2011“Last week marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement of what was to be a radical new approach to missile defense — the…
Occupy Movement
Caption: Protesters at an Occupy Charlotte rally, Oct. 1st, 2011. All photos courtesy of Grant Baldwin.Mr. Baldwin also was a tremendous help in providing much-needed information for this article.By Cliff…
Nypd Bologna Thug With A Badge
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2011Those who get their information from the corporate media may not know that for the last several days, Wall Street–the corporate world’s Mecca, and…
Class Warfare
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 25th 2011There’s been a lot of talk about “class warfare” these days – but don’t be fooled.It’s the usual cry of fear from spoiled brats…
One In Six Americans In Poverty
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 18th, 2011“Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, [according to the …] Census Bureau,” declared The Washington Post on Sept. 13th,…
Millions Owe Jobs To Stimulus
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 6th, 2011As of June 2011, up to 2.9 million employed people owed their jobs to the economic stimulus package,according to a new Congressional Budget Office…
GOP Wildly UNpopular
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 20th, 2011A recent CNN poll reveals that holding American policy hostage with the manufactured “Debt Ceiling crisis” hasseverely hurt the popularity of both the Republican…
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…