Mainstream media (newspapers, TV) often clear their stories with Washington or corporate sponsors, limiting our access to accurate journalism. We need also to spend time with more independent sources if we want accurate information about our world. Below is a (growing) list of more independent resources. Try a few, and then subscribe to those that work best for you.
- 25 Censored Stories of 2015-2016
- 350.org
- Al Jazeera
- Americans United
- Amnesty International
- Antiwar
- Arts & Letters Daily (has many links)
- Big Think
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Center for International Policy
- Center for Media and Democracy
- Center for Public Integrity
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Common Cause
- Common Dreams
- Consortium
- Corporate Accountability
- CounterpunchDaily Digest
- daily kos
- Democracy: a journal of ideas
- Democracy Now
- Economic Policy Institute
- Free Thought Project
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Global Possibilities
- Global Bioethics Initiative
- Global Research News
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Watch
- Information Clearing House (has many links)
- Inequality
- Intercepted. (Jeremy Scahill)
- In These Times
- Institute for Political Economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
- J Stree
- Laura Flanders
- MomsRising
- Mother Jones
- Bill Moyers
- Nation of Change
- National Religious Campaign Against Torture
- NewScientist
- OpenDemocracy
- Our Future
- PeaceVoice
- Pen America
- PoliticusUSA
- Portside
- Progressive Media Project
- Project Censored
- ProPublica
- PRRI
- Raw Story
- Real News
- Reader Supported News
- Rebuild the Dream
- Reclaim Democracy
- Religion Dispatches
- Religious Institute (for sexuality education)
- RT
- Reveal from Center for Investigative Reporting
- SciTechDaily (has many links)
- Secular Coalition for America
- Security Assistance Monitor
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Spiked (UK)
- Sunlight Foundation
- The Daily Beast The Morning Heresy (CFI)
- The American Prospect
- The American Empire Project
- The Center for Public Integrity
- The Daily Beast
- The Guardian (US)
- The Intercept
- The Real News Network
- The Progressive Populist (has many links)
- The Washington Spectator
- The World’s Top Incomes Database
- Think Progress
- This Can’t Be Happening (Dave Lindorff)
- Thom Hartmann
- Tikkun
- Too Much
- True Activist
- TruthDig
- truthout
- Upworthy
- Vox Xentences
- Utne Reader
- Waging Nonviolence
- Wanda Ballentine ( email her)
- WhoWhatWhy
- World Beyond War