Military Planes Unsafe Thanks To Poor Oversight
GAO has found continued “concerns with the [Pentagon’s] ability to collect and share the information needed to identify and mitigate aviation safety risks,”
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – May 7th, 2012The Pentagon is working to expand its use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly called drones, inU.S. airspace. And according to its 25-year UAS…
Homeland Security
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2012Everyone in government seems to believe that their greatest — indeed, their most sacred — duty is the maintenence of ‘land Security’.The problem is…
Protest Choker
The photos appear to show a Boston Police Department cop preparing to choke an Occupy Boston protester.By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 22nd, 2012Our self-proclaimed ‘protectors’ are cracking…Take a good look…
Sec Cannot Handle Its Money
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 15th, 2012The U.S. Government Accountability Office has “identified significant deficiencies in SEC’s internal control over financial reporting,” according to a recent study. And as this…
Wealthy Often Worse People02
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2012A very interesting article was published by The London Guardian in November. It bravely – and correctly -pointed out that the wealthy among us…
Wealthy Often Worse People
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 23rd, 2012“[The upper class behaves like a person who beats] the neighbors’ expensive cars with a baseball bat, with the sole objective of owning the…
Koch Brothers Poison Democracy
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 7th, 2012Only the [violent] mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.…
It Costs To Meet President
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2012 Let’s be honest: America is not a democracy. At best, it is a plutocracy owned by our wealthiest few. And those few buy…
Drones In Us Airspace
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2012The federal government’s deployment of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) within U.S. airspace is greater than normally recognized and is all but sure to increase…
Congressional Millionaires
Your Subtitle HereBy Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2012Why are Congressional lawmakers so clearly out of touch with you and the other 99% of Americans? Perhaps it’s because almost half…
Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2012The difference between the paltry income earned by U.S. laborers and the massive amounts of money collected by owners of capital has been documented…
Civil Liberties Board No Members
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 30 2011The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created to serve as an independent body which wouldoversee U.S. ‘counter-terrorism policies’.That almost sounds decent. Except…
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…