White House exempts itself from FOIA requests

RT.com | March 17, 2015 Notwithstanding claims of being the most transparent administration ever, the White House now says that an executive branch office is exempt from United States Freedom of Information Act requests effective immediately. As of Tuesday, the Office of Administration will no longer have to heed FOIA requests — the likes of…

China Warns U.S. to Stop Its Ukrainian Proxy War Against Russia

Eric Zuesse | Global Research | March 03, 2015 A much-ignored huge news report from Reuters on Friday, February 27th, was headlined “Chinese diplomat tells West to consider Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.” China’s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital of the EU) said that the “nature and root cause” of the Ukrainian conflict is “the…

Obama to Give Jihadists the Ability to Order Airstrikes

Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com | February 18, 2015 “Rebels” who pledged allegiance to ISIS to control American bombers in Syria The Obama administration is preparing to equip the so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels with the ability to order U.S. air strikes despite the group’s admitted allegiance to the Islamic State. Members of the Free Syrian Army…

Why Obama Refuses to Call it ‘Islamic Terrorism’

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | February 18, 2015 Federal government has ignored Islamic threat while obsessing about domestic extremism for years The Obama administration’s refusal to use the term “Islamic terrorism” has provoked widespread condemnation, but it fits perfectly with the federal government’s past approach to the war on terror, which has been…

Obama Destroyed Libya

Ted Rall | 17 Feb 2015 Barack Obama destroyed Libya. What he did to Libya is as bad as what Bush did to Iraq and Afghanistan. He doesn’t deserve a historical pass. When Obama took office in 2009, Libya was under the clutches of longtime dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But things were looking up. Bush…

5 Reasons Congress Should Reject Obama’s ISIS War

Peter Certo | Foreign Policy in Focus | February 11, 2015 The Obama administration wants a rubber stamp on its unwise, unlimited, and unauthorized new war in the Middle East. It shouldn’t get it. At long last, the Obama administration has submitted a draft resolution to Congress that would authorize the ongoing U.S.-led military intervention against the…