Alternative Information Sources

This category lists sites that provide alternatives to the mainstream news media.

AlterNet
This site offers original journalism and utilizes the best of other independent news sources. The aim is to promote citizen action on the environment, social justice, human rights, civil and religious liberties, and health care issues. The site also provides a forum for media skeptics and minority voices to present their views.

Disinformation
This site fills the needs of people who are looking for information on current affairs, politics, fringe science and the "hidden information" that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the huge media conglomerates. It aggregates thousands of the most shocking, oddest and offbeat news articles, podcasts and videos that can be found on the web, the majoroty of them submitted by the general public.

Common Dreams
On this site a community of activists, writers, and ordinary citizens provides breaking news from a progressive perspective, concentrating on the kind of information that is hard to find in the current corporate-dominated media.

Unknown News
This site specializes in lesser known stories that are often overlooked or intentionally avoided by the mainstream news organizations. The site includes an extensive archive of previously-published stories arranged by by subject matter. There are also sections for political cartoons, births and deaths, and letters to the editor.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
This national media watch group has been reporting on media censorship and bias since 1986. It works to promote balanced news coverage of political, economic, and religious issues, and it opposes attempts by governments and corporations to interfere or suppress particulat stories. It also supports the rights of journalists to protect their confidential sources. The organization publishes Extra!, a magazine of media criticism, and produces the radio program CounterSpin, which delves into the news behind the headlines.

WikiLeaks
This website allows anyone to be a whistle-blower by leaking documents, videos or photographs while remaining anonymous. Visitors to the site will see a large link that says "submit documents." Anything submitted is reviewed by a network of editors before being posted online. The website is operated by an organization called Sunshine Press and is supported by public donations. According to the about page, the mission is to promote political reforms by releasing suppressed information, but some of the published material has created considerable controversy, and the site has also been criticized by some U.S. officials as posing a threat to national security.

Other Categories

• Social Causes
  Websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society

• Personal Freedom
  Websites that oppose attempts to take away personal freedom or civil and religious liberties

• Anti-Corporate
  Websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources.

• Religious Dissent
  This page lists websites that express skepticism toward the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups. It also includes sites that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups, atheists, and agnostics.

• Peripheral Science
  Websites which put forward theories about phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science.

• Alternative Healthcare
  Websites that oppose the policies of established healthcare systems and/or advocate alternative methods of treatment such as natural remedies.

• Skeptical View Websites
  This page lists websites which take a skeptical view of majority opinions or put forward counter-arguments to everyday beliefs. This can include commonly-accepted ideas about political agendas, religious practices, and social policies. Some of the sites listed on this page fall into the categories of new atheism and anti-christian.

• Nature and Environment
  Websites and organizations that fight to protect the natural world from human exploitation and encroachment. This could include the advocacy of animal rights, the protection and expansion of park lands, and opposition to commercial development of unspoiled land.

• Glossary
  This glossary includes definitions of various weird beliefs which have been noted in different cultures.

• Other Resources
  Other useful online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and reference materials.

• More Resources
  Some additional resources.

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