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  • 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…

  • To Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 20th, 2012The American Spark normally does not actively engage in protest. But recently our online service has felt a need to stop U.S. lawmakers’ mad…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ceo Pay

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 6th, 2011Several corporations are fighting to keep you from knowing precisely how much their CEOs are being paid–specifically, they’re working to keep you from discovering…