Alternative Media

News


Russia Today
RT ia set to step beyond the boundaries of bare facts and bring you the human side to every story. Broadcasting in English 24/7 in over 100 countries spread over five continents, RT is here to show you how any story can be another story altogether.  Their correspondents in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv focus on international headlines whilst giving an innovative angle set to challenge viewers worldwide. RT was the first television station in the world to set up a bureau in Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia after the August 2008 conflict



Democracy Now
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides their audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other. © Steve J. Sherman



Link TV
Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media. Link Media is an independent media organization whose mission is to engage, inform and inspire viewers to become involved in the world.



LaRouche Pac
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement. Often described as a political extremist, he has written prolifically in his publications on economic, scientific, and political topics, as well as on history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, largely promoting a conspiracist view of history and current affairs. Their activities include campaigning, private intelligence gathering, and publishing numerous periodicals, pamphlets, books, and online content. It characterizes itself as a Platonist, Whig movement which favors re-industrialization and classical culture, and which opposes what it sees as the genocidal conspiracies of Aristotelian oligarchies such as the British Empire.



Malaysia Kini
Launched on November 20th, 1999, Malaysiakini.com offers daily news and views in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. As of July 2008, Malaysiakini became the most read news website and the most popular Malaysian website (Alexa.com). Malaysiakini’s Letters section has generated active participation from readers of all races and religions and of various ideological backgrounds, creating an open and well-informed arena of public debate unseen in Malaysia since the 1960s. Discussion on taboo subjects such as migrant workers, AIDS, Islam and racial quota systems has generated a new understanding on these issues.  Their editorial position is consistently supportive of justice, human rights, democracy, freedom of speech and good governance.  Malaysiakini is unique in the Malaysian context as it is one of the few independent media organisations in Malaysia. It is not linked to any political party or commercial interest.



Media Rakyat
Mediarakyat is dedicated to improve the freedom of information in Malaysia. At Mediarakyat, you will find plenty of informative & interesting video clips concerning current events & speeches that the mainstream newspapers & TV stations may not be able to cover or reluctant to cover. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights indicates: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers”


Online TV
Disclose.tv is a fast growing multimedia and news hub dedicated to unusual and unexplained phenomena as well as alternative topics that may be ignored, denied or inandequatly covered within the mainstream media - the first and already largest of its kind. Hidden Truth Revealed - Secrets Declassified - Mysteries Decoded  As the world becomes increasingly complex, it can be more and more difficult to gain true insight into what is really happening at times. In an information age dominated by big corporate media driven opinion, Disclose.tv is a unique pool of unfiltered video, photo and audio footage and a source for alternative breaking news that can be drawn upon to extrapolate a sometimes general, but a more often startlingly vivid picture of what is actually taking place.



Enigma.tv
The Enigma Channel ( www.enigmatv.com ) is a London base organization. They have a monthly magazine, cyber sore and a wide range of free documentaries. Their categories include  Ancient Worlds, Crop Circles, Experimental Films, Foreign Language, Mind, Body & Spirit, New World Order, Suppressed Inventions, The Occult, The Paranormal, and UFOs & Space.


Reports


Spr Word
Sprword was started to counter the continuing consolidation of mainstream media and its limited and agenda-based reporting. Sprword.com plans to counter corporate media by providing links to important videos, articles, and websites that reveal what corporate mainstream media refuses to recognize as need-to-know information. Their mission is to build a brighter future for the entire planet by seeking and spreading truth on a global level. They are confident that with your help, they can push our society back into the right direction. Help spread the word and sprword!



Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. They 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, they 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.  FAIR works with both activists and journalists.



Media Lens
Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project analysing mainstream media bias. What is the objective of Media Lens?  To challenge the claim that the corporate media system is either willing or able to report honestly or accurately on a world dominated by corporate power. Our aim is to encourage the general population to challenge journalists, editors and media managers who operate a de facto propaganda system for establishment/elite interests. We hope to promote non-corporate media offering a more honest and compassionate response to the world. Fundamentally, we wish to reduce suffering wherever it occurs.



Spin Watch
Spinwatch is an independent non-profit making organisation which monitors the role of public relations and spin in contemporary society. Spinwatch was founded in 2004 and promotes greater understanding of the role of PR, propaganda and lobbying through its website and through other outreach and campaigning activities, including media appearances, book and pamphlet writing, 'Spinwalks' and investigative reporting.



Corbett Report
The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcast, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more. James Corbett is an independent journalist who has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He has been writing and producing The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source, since 2007.



Digital Journal
Founded on the Internet in 1998, DigitalJournal.com began as a technology news site. When readers started asking to take part in the news-gathering process, they jumped at the idea and in 2006 and started paying writers who wanted to contribute news from around the world. DigitalJournal.com has been a pioneer in online revenue-sharing, as well as a pioneer in the world of participatory media, user-generated news and citizen journalism. DigitalJournal.com is now an alternative news network for people who want to read news, contribute to reporting, debate and discuss news and events from around the world.



Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) is a “Think Tank Without Walls” connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. FPIF provides timely analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and recommends policy alternatives. They believe U.S. security and world stability are best advanced through a commitment to peace, justice and environmental protection as well as economic, political, and social rights. They advocate that diplomatic solutions, global cooperation, and grassroots participation guide foreign policy. FPIF aims to amplify the voice of progressives and to build links with social movements in the U.S. and around the world.



Foreign Policy Journa
Foreign Policy Journal is an online publication dedicated to providing critical analysis of U.S. foreign policy outside of the standard framework offered by political officials and the mainstream corporate media. FPJ offers original news, analysis, and opinion commentary from perspectives all too lacking in the public debate on key foreign policy issues. The goal of FPJ is to provide a valuable alternative source for news and insight into world affairs, to encourage citizen journalism, and to promote broader discussion of important global issues.  In the pursuit of the above goals, FPJ publishes articles from a wide array of viewpoints, and welcomes unsolicited submissions. For more on article submissions, please see the Submission Guidelines.



The Malaysian Insider

The Malaysian Insider began publishing on Feb 25, 2008 as a news portal which offers an unvarnished take on events and personalities in Malaysia. The Malaysian Insider covers the issues of the day, politics, business, lifestyle, sports and entertainment. The Malaysian Insider values your thoughtful opinions on any reports or analyses contained here. Occasionally they may have presented an article with typographical errors that may lead to a completely different meaning or thought. This is not intentional and they would appreciate your feedback as and when this happens.


Radio


Coast to Coast am
Coast to Coast AM airs on more than 500 stations in the U.S., as well as Canada, Mexico and Guam, and is heard by nearly three million weekly listeners. With hosts George Noory, George Knapp (weekend) and Ian Punnett (weekend), it is the most listened to overnight radio program in North America.  A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings.



Infor Wars
Internationally recognized veteran broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and investigative journalist Alex Jones. Patrick Beech of the Austin-American Statesman has described Jones as “an absolutely riveting television presence.” Alex’s mainstay is his nationally syndicated news-talk show from his studio in Austin and broadcast on the Genesis Communication Network, based in Minnesota. The Alex Jones Show airs on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave stations across the United States Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. As well, Alex’s show is the largest draw for the talk genre on Shoutcast and the Internet. Alex does a syndicated and nationally broadcast Sunday show on Emmis Communications’ KLBJ 590 AM in Austin, Texas.



Jeff Rense Program
Jeff Rense produces the most consistently fascinating, intriguing, and definitely not always politically-correct talk and information program in radio. In addition to close to scores of nationwide broadcast affiliates, The Jeff Rense Program is probably the world's most listened-to radio program on the internet and the programs archives are considered unmatchable in broadcast journalism.   Night after night, Jeff presents the most advanced, provocative and revealing information available from the most exotic and eclectic venues of research and inquiry possible.



Kevin Trudeau Radio Network
Known as the Ralph Nader of the natural health arena, Kevin Trudeau is fast becoming the world’s foremost consumer and natural cures advocate. A fearless whistleblower, Trudeau is the voice for the voiceless when it comes to exposing corruption and hypocrisy in the medical and corporate worlds.The founder of over 60 companies all around the world, Trudeau’s global business empire has included TV networks, publishing, manufacturing, telecommunications, research organizations, media production and distribution, advertising and consulting. His radio show, KevinTrudeau radio is heard in dozens of markets, throughout the U.S., including Atlanta, Austin, Cleveland, Dallas and Honolulu. Trudeau’s business enterprises have generated billions of US dollars in sales over the last 25 years.


For over a decade, prior to his retirement, Dr. Monteith led a delegation of physicians from Santa Cruz County to the House of Delegates of the California Medical Association. For 10 years he led the battle within organized medicine in California to address the AIDS epidemic as a medical issue rather than a civil rights issue. As a result of his experiences trying to implement an effective medical approach to the HIV epidemic, he wrote the book, "AIDS:The Unnecessary Epidemic", the widely circulated pamphlet, "To Deceive a Nation", and more recently, "A Nation Deceived and Betrayed." Supported by physicians across our nation, his public health approach to the HIV epidemic was eventually accepted by the California Medical Association. Unfortunately, powerful forces continue to oppose the dictates of doctors. Dr Monteith currently spends five hours daily on talk radio in California. He writes extensively, and lectures on geopolitics. He has spent 30 years researching the causes for America's spiritual and moral decline.



Global Genesis Communication
GCN is the number 1 alternative talk radio network in the world. Our programs cover a wide range of topics; current events, politics, gardening, auto, health, travel, lifestyle, nutrition, entertainment and home improvement. The GCN network appeals to a broad spectrum of listeners allowing radio stations to bring on advertisers that may not otherwise purchase local radio spots. This gives you the ability to diversify your lineup, effectively reaching a larger target audience. Carrying GCN programming is easy. Here's why. In addition to GCN's great talk radio programs, we have the easiest, no hassle affiliate agreement in the industry. Unlike other Networks that force stations into taking multiple shows, filling up the weekends and/or overnights with mandatory best-of's and replays, we give our affiliate stations unprecedented flexibitlity.



Flash Points
Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative news magazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the front lines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.



Free Speech Radio News
Free Speech Radio News (or FSRN) is an independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world. FSRN is collectively run by its workers and reporters. It is a non-profit organization, with funding from Pacifica Radio Network, as well as community radio stations across the US and listener-donors. The newscast is independently distributed by FSRN, as well as by the Pacifica radio network.  Hosted by Dorian Merina, the newscast relies on more than two hundred freelance reporters, "on every continent except Antarctica", who use the Internet to deliver their audio reports.



Alternative Radio
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.  Established in 1986, AR is dedicated to the founding principles of public broadcasting, which urge that programming serve as "a forum for controversy and debate," be diverse and "provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard." The project is entirely independent, sustained solely by individuals who buy transcripts and tapes of programs.


Research


Wiki Leaks
WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Their goal is to bring important news and information to the public. They provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to their journalists (electronic drop box). One of their most important activities is to publish original source material alongside their news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence their publishing organisation, their journalists and their anonymous sources. The broader principles on which their work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of their common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history.



Global Research
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research and media organization based in Montreal.  and is a non profit organization.  In addition to the Global Research website, the Center is involved in book publishing, support to humanitarian projects as well as educational outreach activities including the organization of public conferences and lectures. The Center also acts as a think tank on crucial  economic and geopolitical issues.  The Global Research publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focusing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes.  The Global Research website was established on the 9th of September 2001. Barely a few days later, Global Research had become a major news source on the New World Order and Washington's "war on terrorism".



The Black Vault
The Black Vault is an online internet database of officially declassified U.S. Government documents. John Greenewald, Jr., the creator of The Black Vault, began researching a vast array of topics by utilizing the Freedom of Information Act. Since the beginning, it has now morphed into the site you see today. A fully operational social networking site, with hundreds of thousands of documents, forum posts, members, and so many features. The idea is to create the largest Paranormal and Government Conspiracy research center in the world. Around 500,000 officially declassified documents have been scanned into The Black Vault archive, which makes it already the largest archive of its kind anywhere in the world, outside of the U.S. Government itself.


Magazines


AlterNet
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news. They provide free online content to millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial media onslaught. Their aim is to stimulate, inform, and instigate.


The Nation
The Nation  The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.  -- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865.