Trump And Musk’s Gilded Age
The later 19th Century was called the ‘Gilded Age’ because the gold gilding hid the raw corruption that truly defined the era.
Pentagon Cannot Account For All Contractor Dollars
By Cliff Montgomery – May 20th, 2017The Department Of Defense (DOD) hires a lot of contractors to perform the people’s business. And that adds up to a lot of taxpayer…
Corporations Pay Few Income Taxes In Us
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2017 There is a real difference between a corporation’s statutory tax rate – in short, the amount of money U.S. law says a corporation…
Possible New Nuclear Arms Race With Russia
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 26th, 2017Some U.S. analysts in and out of government have “called for the deployment of greater numbers and types of nuclear weapons in Europe, in…
Trump And The Immigration And Nationality Act
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 15th, 2017It appears that federal judges may have killed much of Trump’s most infamous executive order, which suspended U.S. entry for citizens of various Muslim-majority…
General Mattis Nomination Inconveniently UNconstitutional
Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 18th, 2017President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis to be his Secretary of Defense, even though U.S. law forbids him to…
Gao Says Feds Doing Poor Job Policing The Wealthy
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2016The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is empowered to act as one of America’s top corporate policemen. Among other things, it works to ensure…
Congresspeople Hope To End Legal Accountability For Bankers
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 19th, 2016Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not…
Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Cozy Relationship
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 8th, 2016To hear the 2016 presidential candidates tell it, one would think that they are polar opposites. For months both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton…
Pentagon Often Keeps Poor Record Of Contractors
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 31st, 2016The Defense Department (DOD) hires private contractors to perform more of its duties than any other single federal entity. Yet the Pentagon often has…
Choice For President
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2016In January of this year, Trump apparently declared he was so popular with his political base that he might attempt to commit murder in…
Trump Videotape Transcript
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 14th, 2016In all the talk about Donald Trump and the now-infamous ‘video’ first released by the Washington Post, it seems to us at the Spark…
Us Senator Vito Marcantonio On Freedom
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 24th, 2016The current lack of transparency maintained by U.S. police forces – especially regarding its activities in and around American black communities – has come…
Federal Reports On Sexual Violence Data Inconsistent
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2016Although a number of federal agencies collect data on sexual violence, “differences across the data collection efforts … lead to varying estimates of sexual…
Who Is Buying Donald Trump
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 19th. 2016On Aug. 16th, the American Spark revealed the top individual contributors to the Clinton presidential campaign today, we look at Donald Trump’s leading donors.Trump…
Who Is Buying Hillary Clinton
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 16th, 2016In 2016, the American political system offers a real choice for the country’s next president: Voters may choose between a leading Washington insider who…
Wikileaks Founder Points Out Trump And Clinton Terrible Choices
By Cliff Montgomery – July 28th, 2016WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told Democracy Now that the U.S. presidential candidates for the 2016 election – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton -…
Gao Reviews Election Laws
By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2016“Since the enactment of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, there have been notable changes in how states and local election jurisdictions conduct…
Death Rates Rise For Poor Whites Women In Us 02
By Cliff Montgomery – May 18th, 2016 The modern world’s trend toward greater human health and longevity has, in recent years, all but ceased for poorly-educated white Americans. The death…
Death Rates Rise For Poor Whites Women In Us
By Cliff Montgomery – May 15th, 2016The modern world’s trend toward greater human health and longevity has, in recent years, all but ceased for poorly-educated white Americans. In fact, the…
Us Deportation Laws UNfair Says Human Rights Watch
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2016Donald Trump likes to talk a lot about the ‘weakness of U.S. immigrant laws’ in his stump speeches. He apparently feels that it’s a…
Gao Reveals What Corporations Actually Pay In Taxes
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2016“In each year from 2006 to 2012, at least two-thirds of all active corporations had no federal income tax liability,” declares a little-discussed study…
Us Is A Plutocracy Reveals Study
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 28th, 2016This U.S. election cycle has produced two of the more interesting presidential candidates in recent memory: a proudly elitist billionaire and an avowed socialist.…
Who Is Buying Republican Presidential Candidates02
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 1st, 2016It’s been said that America has ‘the best democracy money can buy’. That’s why has worked to uncover who has quietly been buying our…