KZYX and KZYZ
www.kzyx.org
In addition to local programming, our public station here in Mendocino carries Democracy Now (with Amy Goodman), Counterspin (a project of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Wings (Women's International News Gathering Service), TUC Radio (Time of Useful Consciousness/Public affairs), This Way Out (Lesbian & Gay News from around the world), Alternative Radio (speeches by Noam Chomsky and other progressive thinkers), Free Speech Radio News, and many other nationally syndicated alternative news programs. We are very fortunate to have this truly public radio service.
The Centre for Research on Globalisation
www.globalresearch.ca
Based in Canada, the Centre's objective is to unveil the workings of the "New World Order." The New World Order is based on the "false consensus" of Washington and Wall Street, which ordains the "free market system" as the only possible choice on the fated road to a "global prosperity". The GRG aims to reveal the truth and disarm the falsehoods conveyed by the controlled corporate media. Michel Chossudovsky, Editor
Guerrilla News Network
www.guerrillanews.com
An underground news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Their mission is to expose people to important global issues through guerrilla programming on the web and on television.
Common Dreams
www.commondreams.org
A national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future. Founded in 1997, committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. The News Center provides breaking news & views for the progressive community. The Progressive NewsWire brings the press releases and the statements from America's progressive community directly to you - no filters, no editing.
Project Censored
www.projectcensored.org
The Primary Objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. The project hopes to stimulate responsible journalists to provide more mass media coverage of unreported issues and to encourage the general public to demand mass media coverage of those issues or to seek information from other sources. Based at Sonoma State University in Santa Rosa, CA
Democracy Now!
www.democracynow.org
This daily radio news show, hosted by Amy Goodman, goes beyond the rhetoric and party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy in the U.S. These days, some are labeling this "public journalism" or "civic journalism." We call it Radio in the Pacifica Tradition.
Democracy Now! In Exile focuses on a range of issues that demand attention, from the relationship of citizens to their government to the economic realities of declining wages and standards of living for the vast majority of Americans; from the role of money in campaigns to the impact of new technologies on politics and the media.
People’s Democracy
pd.cpim.org
The weekly organ of the Communist Party of India. A very interesting source of news from outside the U.S. corporate media establishment and even outside the U.S. anti-corporate media.
The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk
A daily paper and internet news service with a British and more international view of events, including American politics.
The MuseLetter
www.museletter.com
Offering a continuing critique of corporate-capitalist industrial civilization and a re-visioning of humanity's prospects for the next millennium. Subjects range from global economics to religion to the origin of humanity's antipathy toward nature. All essays are informed by a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of history and culture. MuseLetter's author-editor-publisher is Richard Heinberg, a core faculty member of New College of California (Santa Rosa)'s year-long intensive course on Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community. He is the author of four The Party's Over: Energy Resources and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.
Truth Out
www.truthout.org
Progressive editorials and news links edited by Marc Ash from Los Angeles; covering voting rights, environment, politics, indigenous people, energy, defense, health, economy, human rights, labor, trade, women, children, reform and more.
The Independent Media Center
www.indymedia.org
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth, working out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
The Center was established to provide grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, acting as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and providing up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists have since setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy, with more to come.
CounterPunch
www.counterpunch.com
The bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.
Yes! magazine
www.yesmagazine.org
Positive Futures Network is an independent, nonprofit organization supporting people’s active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. The Positive Futures Network (PFN) and its publication YES! magazine start with the belief that we need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
www.fair.org
A national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
From the Wilderness
www.copvcia.com
Web site of Michael Ruppert, ex-L.A. cop who uncovered CIA involvement in crack cocaine smuggling into L.A. ghettos to finance covert operations in Nicaragua. Many important stories here on September 11 and what our government may have known in advance.
World News Sources From and For the People
The major media news organizations are for-profit businesses whose source of income is the sale of advertising space. They are therefore beholden to their advertisers. Such news sources as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other big city newspapers, magazines such as Time and Newsweek, and television and radio stations including CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN are censored from within and without by their corporate sponsors. In addition, many of these news sources are owned by large corporations that have an interest in creating public consensus for their policies. Even PBS and NPR, which are non-profit corporations, are funded primarily by corporate donations. In other words, large corporations control the mass media in the United States.
I believe that our so-called "free press" is heavily censored, not necessarily by official edict, but through self-imposed censorship by editors and reporters who know what might happen if they don't stick to the corporate agenda. So I'm grateful for the existence of alternative news sources, both in print, on radio and on the internet, that serve the interests of people rather than corporate profit. Below are some of the sources I check regularly.
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