Disobeying Illegal Orders Is A Military Duty, Not A Crime
The truth is that soldiers have a legal duty to refuse any order that clearly breaks the law, according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Obama Auto Force
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2010No honest person liked the federal government’scorporate bailouts of 2008-2009. But we at theAmerican Spark feel the special animosity somepeople exhibited toward the bailouts…
Why UNions Still Matter
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2010The recent West Virginia mining disaster is a chilling reminder of why unions still matter.”Massey Energy Co., the company which owns the mine, is…
Us Cyberattack Policy
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 4th, 2010″The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber-attack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” according to a press…
Oecd Tax Havens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released a study which discussed a major new international initiative against tax havens.The initiative has been…
Pentagon Sexual Assault Prevention
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2010The Defense Department and the U.S. Coast Guard need to further improve their prevention and response tooccurrences of sexual assault, according to expert testimony…
Market Crash In 2013
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 22nd, 2010Corporate Debt accumulated during the George W. Bush years of eased regulation may create a secondeconomic crash by 2013, according to DailyFinance, a financial…
Military Suicides
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2010Service-member suicides are “definitely” higher than official U.S. Army stats suggest, according to the Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors, a G.I. activist group…
Republicans Federal Debt
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2010America’s federally mandated debt limit has been raised numerous times over the last 10 years, reveals aU.S. government study released in January.There is only…
Derivatives
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2010America’s economy has greatly suffered, in large part thanks to risky Wall Street speculation on future trends in volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign…
Stiglitz Testimony On Wall Street
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 22nd, 2010Today the House Committee on Financial Services held a full committee hearing on the Performance andIncentives of America’s Financial Sector. Perhaps the most engaging…
Us Financial Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 3rd, 2010U.S. financial regulation is piecemeal and many essential financial activities remain completely unregulated, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).…
Sec Recommendations Ignored
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 22nd, 2009The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to implement 224 recommendations submitted byits Inspector General since December 2007–or more than 60% of those…
Us Poverty
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2009The Great Recession has shown an awful ability to drive hard-working Americans into poverty–and to makepoverty especially dire for those who already had nothing.The…
Katrina Negligence
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 20th, 2009The U.S. government may end up paying billions of dollars in damages to New Orleans residents, now that a federal judge has ruled that…
Wage Theft
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2009Employers are increasingly engaging in acts of wage theft against their workers, according to recent reportsfrom the Government Accountability Office (GAO).The GAO conducted an…
Obama Ethics Waivers
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 4th, 2009The Obama Administration has granted some form of waiver to the president’s famed Ethics Pledge forseventeen appointees.The waivers exempt the appointees from Obama’s ‘revolving…
Global Recession
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 29th, 2009The Congressional Research Service (CRS) on Oct. 2nd issued a study on the Great Recession. The report’sconclusion? The financial pain is still with us,…
Greenspan Banks Too Big
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2009The Obama Administration should break up all large financial entities considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently told a…
Obama Economy
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 12th, 2009Some in the Corporate Media already are crowing that Americans will not ‘tolerate’ another stimulus packageto bolster the anemic economy of Main Street.But then…
Pentagon Contractors
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th, 2009The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) often is called “the congressional watchdog” and “the investigative arm of Congress.” On September 22nd, GAO released a…